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Objectile 6 (consequence series on fresh architecture) Fast-Wood: a brouillon project

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Since its formation in 1995 by Patrick Beaucé and Bernard Cache, Ojectile is working on technologies for a 'Non-Standard Architecture'. That means, that the architectural project consists of a 'model' with its primary elements varying on the basis of invariant relations between them. With Fast-wood: a Brouillon Project Objectile presents for the first time a comprehensive survey of their current work within the scope of the Consequence Book Series on Fresh Architecture.

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AA words 6 : projectiles

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Bernard Cache is the principal of the Paris-based practice Objectile – which he founded in 1996 with Patrick Beaucé – and a noted theorist of geometry and computational ontology. He formulated his concept of 'non-standard architecture' in his 1995 book Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories, a concept that was given the name 'objectile' by Gilles Deleuze in his book on the philosopher Leibniz, The Fold. This collection of ten essays brings together a number of key texts by Cache. These include his 1999 'Plea for Euclid' and more recent writing commissioned especially for this collection, including 'Vitruvius Machinator Terminator'.

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L'encyclopédie vitruvienne aujourd'hui?

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Édifice inaugural du De Architectura, la Tour des Vents d’Andronikos de Kyrros nous montre comment Vitruve se forge, dans le sillage de Varron, une conception augmentée de l’architecture qui ne se limite pas à la construction d’édifices: aedificatio,, mais s’étend à la construction de cadrans solaires: gnomonica, et de machines: machinatio,. Et si Vitruve apparait comme un précurseur du projet encyclopédique, c’est que ces trois constructions procèdent d’une même conception paramétrique, à base de proportions, comme toute la science antique, même si Vitruve confond cet outil mathématique avec celui de commensurabilité pour lequel il utilise le mot grec symmetria,. De fait, il aura fallu attendre 1794 pour qu’Adrien Marie Legendre initie les travaux qui donneront son sens moderne au mot symétrie, à savoir : celui d’un groupe de transformations maintenant globalement invariantes toutes les propriétés d’une figure en dépit de l’inversion de son orientation. La question devient alors d’évaluer dans quelle mesure on peut construire une encyclopédie contemporaine sur la base du concept d’invariance par variation inauguré par Felix Klein en 1872.

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Earth moves: the furnishing of territories

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Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers a new understanding of the architectural image itself. Following Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, he develops an account of the image that is nonrepresentational and constructive—images as constituents of a primary, image world, of which subjectivity itself is a special kind of image. Second, Cache redefines architecture beyond building proper to include cinematic, pictoral, and other framings. Complementary to this classification, Cache offers what is to date the only Deleuzean architectural development of the "fold," a form and concept that has become important over the last few years. For Cache, as for Deleuze, what is significant about the fold is that it provides a way to rethink the relationship between interior and exterior, between past and present, and between architecture and the urban.