ABSTRACT

Scaffolding can provide architects with a new field of action. Its constantly changing image makes it a pretext for experimental action. — Bea Goller

Scaffolding as a theoretical position suggests that an open framework for ideas is more useful than a specific reductive position. The open framework is a process and methodology of indeterminacy and adaptation. In lieu of a narrowly focused limiting ideology, a theoretical scaffold establishes general reference points for experimentation. Ideas and investigations may fill in, extend, or oppose the initial geographic, culture, language, philosophical, technological, social, political, or economic framework.