ARC 597 | BLOW-UP Scale, Spectacle, and Spontaneity in Architecture

The article by Pask was certainly an interesting one linking the concept of cybernetics to an architectural domain as well as basic structural ways of thinking.  This process of relating an architectural typology to environmental systems evokes a thought well beyond the simple cybernetic concept, and pushes it into a realm of technical and aesthetic discussion.  Pask puts the task of relating contemporary architecture to it’s immediate environment, onto the shoulders of the modern designer by challenging the conventional logic of evolution in design and construction.  His relation to Gaudi, and the artistic period of surrealism pushes the convention of architectural design and it’s relation to cybernetics into a concord of ‘supernormal’ stimuli, where exists an environmental dialogue between man and machine.  This dialogue contests the notion furthermore by introducing the idea of organizational control or as he states ‘control of control’.