This blog is intended to be a continuously evolving archive and record of my work as part of the Rationalist Traces M.Arch unit at the University of Dundee. Hopefully over time a coherent theme will become evident in the work posted and by the end of the year this blog will serve as an artefact in itself, showing a clear narrative and iteration in my year's work (fingers crossed). -- Gregor Tait --

Sunday 26 September 2010

There remains a trace






There remains, a trace of some directing force.












This is a model which I made out of balsa-wood matchsticks, using an over turned bowl as formwork. Once the bowl has been removed we are left with this structure, seemingly random in its individual connections, yet when taken as a whole it clearly has some logic and order to it. I like this as a simple analogy for rationalism in architecture. The bowl imposes, a priori, a set of rules and constraints upon the balsa-wood structure which, even once the bowl is removed, are still implied. 
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