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city, the site and the territory,

and

"sculpture" figures as a way

of defining a new kind

of

monumentality-a monumentaliry

of

the informe so to speak, that at

once

chal enges the political

co nnotati

ons oftht

old

mon

u

ment,yet

nevertheless preserves a

"notmonumental" ro le for architectu re.

Fol owing

sC\wal decades of selfimposed autonomy, archi

tecture

has

recently

entered

a greatly eKpanded field . Against

neorat ionali

sm,

pure language theory, and

postmodern

cita

tion fever,

architecture-like

sculpture

some

decades

earlier

has

found new formal

and programmatic

inspi ration in a host

of di

sc

ip

lines and technologies. from landscape architecture to

di

gital

animat

ion . Where fo rme r theorists

anempted

to identify

single and essential bases for architecture, now multiplicity and

plurality

are eelebrated,

as flows, networks,

and maps

replace

grids, structures, and history.

Where arguments once

raged

between Corbusian and Pal adian sources, now Henri Bergson

and Gilles Dcleuze

are

studied f T

their an

ti cipation of nonfo r

mal processes . Blobs, swarms, crystals , and webs proliferate as

pamdigms of buil l form, while software has replaced traditional

means

o representation with dynamic effect. Nearly two and

a half centuries after Gottfried Lessing inaugurated the search

for

med

ium spceifieiry in his

LuociJon and

more

Ihan

fifryyears

afte r Greenberg articulated a selfr

efle ive

definition of mod

ern painting and sculpture,

the

boundary Hnes

of

architecture

remain unresolved.

And yet, under lying

the

new formal c ~ p e r i m e n t t i o n is

a serious atlempt to reconstrue the foundations of

the

disci

pline,

not

so much in singular

terms but

in broader conCeptS

that acknowledge an expanded field, while

seeking

to over

come the problematic dualisms that have plagued architecture

for over a century: fo rm

and

function, historicism

and

abstrac

tion, utopia and reality, structure and enc losure. Over the last

decade, four new unifying principles h

u\e

emerged as thc

most

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