Week 11

The word cardboard is really an excellent choice in how Eisenman describe the style. It’s very naked and it feels like, to me at least, that the plans are more defined by the absence of things rather than what they contain. It’s interesting because throughout this semester the idea of function has come up time and time again, each thinker having a different approach what truly defines a structure or just simply what is architecture. We have heard throughout this semester what architecture is from a variety of speaker and thinkers so it’s interesting how, at least I feel that Eisenman defines it by what it does not have which is honestly more aligned with how I see things. The idea of the cardboard is more abstract and up in the area, its the cardboard, it’s primitive and at the core of what the structure truly is. “Cardboard is used to signify the result of the particular way of generating and transforming a series of primitive integer relationships into a more complex set of specific relationships which become the actual building.” (Eisenman 1). The parents or origins of a structure are what defines it rather than it’s offspring. For example a church is built the idea is a place of worship in mind not the stained glass windows that become of that particular idea.