The Intelligence of Project and Paper Money Architecture

Abstract

Moving from the two geometries identified by Michel Serres as peculiar of the history of Western thought – the first free of utility, being the demonstration of the desire for intellectual speculation, the second functional to the achievement of practical and economic purposes as well as subject to the rules of power – the paper investigates the contradictions between the different meanings of geometry and representation, exploring the relationship between the project, its developers and users in order to outline new perspectives on the design process and the market dynamics. The text is divided into three parts: the first concisely presents the concepts on which the project / market dialectic is based; the second explores the less transparent regions of this complex relationship; the third hopes for the overcoming of contradictions through the definition of new estimative processes, multidimensional and circular, to be opposed to those, linear and one-dimensional, of neoclassical theories.