ABSTRACT
Modernism itself comes as a diagrammatic response to a contextual change during the first half of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the Fordist approach to mass production, Le Corbusier presented the diagram for the domino system, which became the essential diagram for the reconstruction of war-torn countries across Europe, and an initial globalized standard for urban development. Postmodernism, for example, tried to revive agendas of symbolism in the architectural language which architects like Michael Graves or Ricardo Bofill fulfilled in their seminal projects. High-tech architects appeared as late modernists, expressing new materials and construction methods as the expression of the building in order to provide a free interior flexible space rather than the modernist “free plan.” The method of composing a topology and then assessing what elements and systems relate best to the topology is a potential method for Contemporary Architecture, beyond a modern framework, beyond style.
