Chapter 2 of 24
Inflated Bubble. Exhibition Screens
The first of these projects is one called "The Inflated Bubbles" or "Cluster Of Bubbles". Now these we have known, inflated spheres, before or up to this time. But this is a composite arrangement of bubbles in which the spaces are combined, or in which we have a complication of interior volumes which, if not controlled by pumps to maintain the equal pressure that they must so this will not collapse. This is then the first time using computer controls and then monitoring the variable pressure in one chamber or another. This is then a totally... it can be equalised. As a modern architect, I insist that there be first of all a way of building, that that way of building explains itself in the aesthetic of the project, that it have a program of use, it has a purpose and it has functional use throughout. This then is not necessary to many architects, particularly in the US now, who go blithely ahead with images and styles which have no particular meaning, no connection with either purpose, function or building method. So I want to establish right away my position of that sort.