Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design

Darren Deane, Eleanor Suess Kingston University, United Kingdom 61

ships between apparently disconnected working methods. In the words of Adorno, every

project-work is a potential space or force field, at which point architectural design begins

to resemble a chemical, material process.

Our contribution to the debate about time-based media and the burgeoning rhetoric

of fluidity, flowmania, and process-driven architecture is that it need not displace the

slower presence and friction of built matter. This is why we seek to develop a conflict-

ing logic of interference (the agon) that enables the configuration of projects as plural

material states embodying degrees of temporality. For us, intelligent architecture cuts

Diagram 3: Pedagogical Matrix

Diagram : Intensified Project Space