Project Development (Theory) - Neoplasmatic Design
- Eunice Abanewa Hanson
- Apr 4, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 8, 2022
Neoplasmatic Design, according to Marcos Cruz (2008) investigates an emerging territory that examines contemporary biological practices and their implications for the field of architecture. Architects such as Kevin Kelly and Steven Levy, have alerted us to the fact that architecture is undergoing profound changes, forcing architects to rethink their parameters in terms of both professional practice and education. It reveals the challenge of how architects will respond when buildings are hybridised with biological matter, resulting in semi-living systems of an unpredictable nature, the composition of new environments that are potentially half grown and half manufactured.
It poses the question of whether we are finally capable of escaping the constraints imposed by the long-standing heritage of the aesthetics of cleanliness that affected architecture so profoundly throughout the last century; enabling us to embrace notions of dirt, impurity and ugliness as part of architectural aesthetics.
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