http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20130419/toward-resilient-architectures-3-how-modernism-got-square
Où les fractales ont bien des choses à dire à Adolf Loos:
"The
fractal mathematics of nature bears a striking resemblance to human
ornament, as in this fractal generated by a finite subdivision rule.
This is not a coincidence: ornament may be what humans use as a kind
of “glue” to help weave our spaces together. It now appears that
the removal of ornament and pattern has far-reaching consequences for
the capacity of environmental structures to form coherent, resilient
wholes."
"In
this picture of things, ornament is far from mere decoration. It is a
precise category of articulation of the connections between regions
of space by the human beings that design them. It can be thought of
as an essential kind of “glue” that allows different parts of the
environment to echo and connect to one another, in a cognitive sense
and even in a deeper functional sense. Ornament, then, is an
important tool to form a complex fabric of coherent symmetrical
relationships within the human environment."
La conception de l'ornement encore à l'oeuvre de nos jours, et héritée entre autres du triste sire Adolf Loos, a besoin d'être ré-envisagée sous un angle entièrement nouveau. Car ce fonctionnalisme minimaliste encore actuellement en vogue se leurre en croyant que l'efficacité fonctionnelle peut se réduire à une conception formelle simpliste. Un fonctionnalisme intelligent ne peut être simpliste:
"As one functional example, a certain kind of cell-phone antenna incorporating ornament-like fractal patterns (see above) offers the best performance for its tiny size but cannot be conceptualized within a minimalist form language."
Is this ornamental embroidery? Actually, a fractal antenna which, when miniaturized, makes cell phone reception possible. There is an important role here for functionalism, understood in a much deeper sense. Drawing by Nikos Salingaros
A bon entendeur, Loos!
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