Photo: Selma Gurbuz, courtesy of the artist
Living Architecture
However, although this visionary principle theorized a potentially infinite expansion, enabling additions to a constructed whole and replacement of its modular and prefabricated components (as with a space station), it never addressed its contraction and eventual disappearance. This conceptual asymmetry favours growth and neglects cycles of decomposition and the natural limits of the organic systems the movement claims to emulate.
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