Organisms as relationships Kengo Kuma

Organisms as relationships

"Even Wright did not think of an organism as a matter of relationship with the outside world. The biggest achievement of the twenty first century view of organisms has been the perception that an organism is not autonomous but survives through relationships with the external world." p.56

Organisms as a Yardstick (pietra di paragone) for architecture

"If the leading role in architecture is played by organisms called human beings, then it seems to me only natural to regard architecture as a matter of relationships, that is, the relationship between organisms and matter on the one hand and the relationship between organisms and the environment on the other" p.52


"The philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari is critical of the human tendency to frame concepts in terms of opposites. They not only are critical of the tendency to divide the ambiguous world of ideas in two by means of dual opposition but assert that dual opposition itself is invalid. […] The boundary between the two states [solid and liquid, ndR] is ambiguous and relative. That was the point made by Delueze and Guattari. The relationship between our bodies and surrounding matter is expressed at times as solid and at other times as liquid. Relationship determines everything." p.46