Rational Form Making

Harvard GSD

In search for freedom in aesthetics, the disciplines of architecture and structural design have always worked hand in hand in expanding new possibilities for form finding and space making. Rationality is the central tenant of the modernist’s approach to architecture, tracing back to the traditions of logic and order of the Classicism of Greece and Rome. There have been two major trajectories in architecture within the structural conceptual approach in the period since the beginning of the…