Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism: The Limits of Self-Generation

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology.

The epistemologies of self-generation outlined by enlightenment and critical philosophy provided the model for the discursive ...