Open logic, informational logic: theory and history of
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Manuel Gausa
Manuel Gausa
After years of historical revisionism and instrumental calli-graphy, the last decades of the 20th century were characte-rized by the initial impact of the new digital universe and its strong computational component. Open(ing) proposes to recognize –and traverse– the conditions of this new, more polyhedral and undisciplined environment from those archi-tectural explorations generated then and connected with a new innovative will oriented to a more complex, dynamic, and procedural conception of the form; a new advanced logic associated to spatial configurations of more open and irre-gular geometries –topologic and topo-morphic– connected with the own dynamics –and more explicit manifestations– of a scenario (the city itself) in exponential mutation; but also with the exploration of new “anti-typological” spatial formu-lations arising from the experimentation with new systems, new devices and initial software programs, more elastic, changeable and adaptable, conceived as dynamic and fluc-tuating fields.
That feverish moment of trials and searches, of resonances and transfers, of translations and transpositions, is what was going to focus a good part of the turn of the century, as a pioneering response to a paradigm shift (that of the digital revolution and the complex interaction with the information) then in progress. His critical analysis, his concerns and his travels, his experiences and his expressions are now mapped in this investigation.
