BIM’s Complexity and Ambiguity: Box v. Anti-Box.
“Four Walls and a Roof, The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession”, by Reinier de Graaf, identifies the division between, “The box [that] is the natural outcome of all rational parameters combined, the form of which geometry and economy meet in perfect sync”, and its foil, “The anti-box [that] is nothing more than form follows function 2.0, that is, a perfectly executed mistake.”
What Box?
Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano’s Pompidou Center is a box, albeit an inverted one. Epistemologically, Architect Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum (Berlin, 1993) may embrace elements of the anti-box, but in terms of BIM, it is a box. Alternately, Mr. Libeskind’s DAM Art Museum (Denver, 2006) and Architect Frank