Difficult Whole
Fall 2021 ARCH 621
Instructor: Nate Hume
The difficult whole in an architecture of complexity and contradiction includes
multiplicity and diversity of elements in relationships that are inconsistent
or among the weaker kinds perceptually...Parts can be more or less whole in themselves, or, to put it another way, in greater or lesser degree they can
be fragments of a greater whole... Properties of the part can be more or less articulated; properties of the whole can be more or less accented. In the complex
compositions, a special obligation toward the whole encourages the fragmentary part or, as Trystan Edwards calls it, the term ‘inflection’.
