Warped-Space: let's see if I get it!

Vidler talks about two distinct forms of spatial warping; one which occurs on a more psychological level as a product of the ideals and culture of modernism and the other which on a smaller scale is a hybrid result of unconventional use of different media and thus breakthrough representational methods. Psychological and artistic warping, although are different, they are closely related; and in the fabric of the large city _ metropolis_ they begin to merge.

Further, Vidler introduces the “Neoformations of Morphosis”. Their new and unconventional forms are a result of their clear understanding of psychological, cultural and social values and ideals, and their eager attempt to push the boundaries of the digital technology and the artistic media. They tend to warp the conventions of the past in promise for new forms that are boundless to dogma of modernism.

Vidler talks about several ways that Morphosis has broken the past conventions (modernism) by reinterpreting new forms or even new methodologies (modernity). He talks about “Scapelands” where Morphosis creates a landscape which refuses to “rest in horizontal” and where it adopts a new from and that from becomes a new standpoint. Then he talks about “ Morphing the type” which describes Morphosis’ return to typology, by creating a warped space for the same conventional function( ex. Ove Arup offices, Los Angeles).
In “Tipping the Wall” he describes an architecture that defies gravity and has no reference to vertical or horizontal, a space where the floor becomes the wall and the wall becomes the ceiling and where there is no distinction between the planes. And at last he describes Morphosis’ interpretation of the “Burrow” , an architecture buried in the earth and formed by the earth. This time the distinction between the earth and the architecture is blurred, and the ground warps to womb the architecture buried inside of it.