This studio was based on the classic idea of the arabesque: the interlacing, the networking of curved lines into complex configurations. The idea was that the variability of a figure was directly connected to an emergent effect of configuration. Configurationalism meant in our case a geometrical framework for a whole and parts systematics, similar to pattern. Our studio researched the material basis for this idea and progresses from developing geometrical articulation of massing into an exploration of structural matters.

In the 20th century technology mixed with architecture in a very particular way. Roughly put we could say there were two trends, one Corbusian, with an architecture of the plastic and the formal, supported by a technology of concrete, the other programmatic and structural, overall Miesian, supported by a technology of steel. Now we can conclude steel has won the battle, simply because the technology of concrete was one of the monolithic which lacks the resilience of the composite.