![]() ![]() The Easy Parts invites to reconceptualize ancient and contemporary spatial and programmatic strategies in order to explore the limits, challenges, and potential of pure form.Ĭarl Jung defined as an archetype, the patterning forces contained in the Collective Unconscious-the deeper layer of images that is inborn in the human psyche in people indifferent to time and place. The Easy Parts explores through research and design the relationship of pure form and architecture’s capacity to address complex programs. Still affecting the discourse and practice of contemporary Architecture, the shortcomings of the difficult whole can be tackled with a form of architecture exploring the sublime simplicity it aimed to deconstruct. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) argued for an architecture exploring ‘the difficult unity through inclusion rather than the easy unity through exclusion.’ This architecture resulted, in part, in the reduction of architecture to a stylistic straitjacket of often contradictory elements in detriment of a transcendental critique of architectural form with its ideological and sociopolitical imperatives. In the last architectural manifesto of the 20th Century, Robert Venturi tried to construct an argument for the ‘difficult whole’. ![]()
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