ABSTRACT

This chapter explores how the subjects of networks and the interactivity of small and large units are revealed in the architecture. It attempts to interpret the relationship of the functions and forms as understood in the today's discourse on architecture. In order to determine the functions of parts, the analytical method of isolating the parts from the whole was employed. Interest in system theories in architecture has its historical roots in a specific discourse on the architecture in the 1960s. Fuller defined himself as belonging to the industrial society, which was characterized by assuming a hierarchical system in which human beings could steer the fortunes of the universe. The fundamental fact is that social meaning evaporates from places, and therefore from society, and it becomes diluted and diffused in the reconstructed logic of a space of flows whose profile, origin, and ultimate purpose are unknown.