| Summary: | In 1967, Warren M. Brodey invented the concept of “soft architecture”, an obliteration of the wall as a category. In a 1971 article titled “Biotopology”, he wrote “Infolding: imagine working through into depths with the help of a media that provides instantaneous feedback and thereby allows infolding with time, memory, energy, relation… TV networks do not have walls….” A Medical Doctor specializing in cybernetics and psychiatry, Brodey worked for the NASA Electronic Research Center, and was the first MD to be employed at the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Lab at MIT. For Gilbert Simondon, topology and chronology coincide in the individuation of the living: they are not a priori forms, but the dimensionality of living while it is individualizing. Thus, for Simondon, are met the conditions, so as to think morphogenesis. As a result, it is the genetic processes analyzed by Simondon — brick, membranes or crystals, for example — that allow for rethinking spatial categories. Suddenly, basic architecture (wall and partition, floor and ceiling) sees its meaning entering into a baroque metamorphosing, and transmuting into a topological surface of contact.
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