1999

stan ALLEN: the filed condition implies an architecture that admits change, accident, and improvisation. it is an architecture not invested in durability, stability, and certainty, but an architecture that leaves space for the uncertainty of the real.
stan ALLEN’S excellent points + lines includes his seminal essay on field conditions as well as two other writings and an afterword by robert somol. allen investigates swarms, flocks, mats, intensities and the shift from object to field at the end of the 20th century. the book is organized as a user’s manual and includes documentation of six projects by allen.