![“At first glance the poster recalls Charles Jencks’s famous “Evolutionary Tree of Twentieth-Century Architecture.” We see the same timeline (horizontal) interacting with formal concerns (vertical, from logical on the top to unself-conscious on the bottom), but the blobs in this case seem to make more sense, like a connective tissue that binds everything together but discovers particular strands that are stronger or more populous than others. Additionally, the underlying grid is just that, something there but not something that overrides the location of a particular architect within the continuum. So can it be said that ETH Zurich’s “synoptic vision” expands or improves upon Jencks’s evolutionary tree? I’d say no, even though it packs much more information into its large-format prospectus.”
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“At first glance the poster recalls Charles Jencks’s famous “Evolutionary Tree of Twentieth-Century Architecture.” We see the same timeline (horizontal) interacting with formal concerns (vertical, from logical on the top to unself-conscious on the bottom), but the blobs in this case seem to make more sense, like a connective tissue that binds everything together but discovers particular strands that are stronger or more populous than others. Additionally, the underlying grid is just that, something there but not something that overrides the location of a particular architect within the continuum. So can it be said that ETH Zurich’s “synoptic vision” expands or improves upon Jencks’s evolutionary tree? I’d say no, even though it packs much more information into its large-format prospectus.”
[Architecture - A Synoptic Vision by Professor Adrian Meyer ETHZ, 2008]
