Thinking about the Cartesian grid and formal alignment
The Cartesian Grid is a well-established "design tool" that architects have religiously used. In the article "Nonlinear Perspective," Kiel Moe(1) suggests below that there could be a way of thinking about design using other frames of references, in order to begin to allow tolerance and incorporation of environmental and political concerns in design methods: "When you only design in a Cartesian frame of reference, architecture falsely appears as an object with apparent properties of simple location, seemingly more autonomous than it is in reality" This is an interesting proposal, since it first questions whether certain types of spatial concerns do not exist in a Cartesian location to begin with. For the sake of experimentation, I attempted a short design project with the assumption that trees were an ecology that do not operate under a Cartesian frame of reference, to which my feedback was that the project surrounding it still demonstrated strong propert