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ON HYBRID TYPES - Ideas on the role of type and memory in Architecture (pre-model):

“When speaking of the hybrid-type, one is dealing with the notions of abstraction and position. By definition, the hybrid-type is an abstracted resolution caused by the necessity of merger between dissimilar ideas or objects. The final product is not a compromise of the two problems, nor is it an apology, but rather a charged morphosis. The origin of the hybrid is begat by the idea of need, but what gives the hybrid its growth, it's method, it's presence and it's energy is the idea of desire.

In programmatic terms, the investigation of precedents is essential to uncover the inherent problems of transformation and juxtaposition. One must know the thoughts of the disease before one can conjure the cure. The usual problems resultant of this investigation into the 'disease' are those of methodology and viewpoint (reference). Once the problems of need are established, it is common to produce not an abstracted resolution, but more of a programmatic collision. By this, there is a transformational problem in both idea and method. After the programmatic problems are identified, the hybrid-type no longer deals with the synthetic and syntactic, but rather with the analytic and referential.

The notion of the hybrid deals with reference points. Much like the surrealist, the hybrid takes an eschewed view of the subject matter. It is a simultaneous two-way mirror that looks at the resolution through the problem. The clarity of the reference point, however, is essential. Like the chance happening of an umbrella and a sewing machine, the meaning of the merger is unclear unless the referential idea of surgeon is presented in no uncertain terms.”

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