Skin and Bones - Vidler Reading

Some focal points of the Skin & Bones reading:

1. the implication of the fold - its transcendence past a physical form to permeate into ideas, concepts

2. the influence of emerging technology in architecture to redefine the exploration of form and fold

3. the response of the eyes and brain to an image, and the ever-changing perception of space through a picture plane: the image represented as a series of folds on a two-dimensional plane

4. illustration: the Baroque House as an analogy, a diagram that refers to the soul as a dark room into which thoughts and experiences permeate, and the analogy of the brain as a screen whose complexity is also characterized by folds

5. analogy of the screen and room, to music: a box and strings that oscillate: the continuing connection between folds in the figurative sense and physical folds 

6. folds as a connective system between two independent parts, the physical and the spiritual

7. evolution of architectural forms into non-platonic, bloblike forms that challenge traditional notions of structure: topological surface