Matter(s) of Inquiry : Abject(ion) Gathering Affective Energy.
Affective Formulation : Processual/Durational Material Flows/Mattering Matter(s).
Transitional Compositions and Events/Anti-Objects.
‘We are composed of matter and live in the midst of matter. Our objective should not be to renounce matter, but to search for a form of matter other than objects.
What that form is called-Architecture, Gardens, Technology- is not important.’
Kengo Kuma.
On Anti-Object : An extended essay that is not so much history or theory as a volume of self-assessment that gives an opportunity for the author to contextualise his own body of work through considered self-reflection.
‘A monument is a form that preserves time through the compression of space, a form in which visual perception is the parameter. A monument is a compression of time and space’ (Kuma,2008:92) Anti Object.
‘My purpose in writing this book is to criticise architecture that is self-centred and coercive.’ Kengo Kuma.
‘Like McTiernan or the theorist Paul Virilio, Kuma sees new digital and information technologies as leading us to an aesthetics of disappearance, rather than image or form.(Steele,2008:3)
‘My ultimate aim is to erase architecture’(Kuma,2008:3)
How then, can architecture be made to disappear?
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