Border/Rules

Through the examination of six examples, both architectural and artistic, the words “border” and “rules” are explained as generative concepts for the creative project, both stemming from the shared impulse of framing and ordering processes and spaces. The “border” can signify first and foremost a line, a material separation of spaces and a basic delimitation of architectural form, but it can equally be a conceptually invisible physical separation between two antithetical relation of that which is divided, and finally, a “border” can affirm its importance through its own absence. The notion of “rules” on the other hand, can be interpreted as a starting point for an automatic process of creation, as a means of collective liberation by orderly framing the singularity of exceptions, or as a mechanism of resistance against itself.