Show GLOSSARY OF CONTINUMORPH TERMINOLOGY ABSTRACT SPACE Any evironmental organization based on or modeled on Euclidian geometry. For example a wall is a plane which is made of lines which are made up of points which are nonentities without parts according to Euclid"s definitons. Euclid's definiton of a point is a definition of nothing. Any place made up of such geometry is simply abstract or abstraction. ABSTRACT The reference to any construct of geometric order. Synonymous with Euclid. ABSTRACTION The reference to the existing manmade environment. ANALOGUE The continumorph is the parallel to the components of nature. An analogue is a parallel between two differing spacial orders. Gills in fish are analagous to lungs in humans. ARCHITECT An archaic term for the profession of those who design abstract space. The term is meant to convey the existence of a discipline at work in the implimentation of geometry as environment. Since geometry does not exist in real space there is no such discipline. ARCHITECTURE The reference to Euclid's definitions of points lines and planes as environment. The term implies a discipline of environmental space and again since geometry has no reality in experience there can be no such thing as "architecture." The question is whether to disgard the term or revitalize it through continumorphology. There is so much useless baggage that comes with ARCHITECTURE though it seems best simply to drop the entire vocabulary and begin anew. BOX The literal description of buildings or architecture. The history of architecture is the history of the box. A box has six faces eight vertices and twelve edges which makes up all known buildings on the planet. For example a Gothic cathedral is a vaulted and buttressed box. BOX MODEL Architecture is modeled on the box. All disciplines have their models which describe the particular reality being studied in that area of knowledge. In the sense that geometry does not exist in real space there is no model at all for architecture. |