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Material Intelligence

Remix as authorship

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Remix as authorship

ARCH–MAT–DUY

Remix as authorship

Index Code:

ARCH–MAT–DUY

Orgin:

Rockford, USA / Chicago, USA

Field Notes:

Design becomes dialogue • context becomes material.

Defining Moment:

2013—Off-White established remix as a new architectural grammar for fashion.

Virgil Abloh

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1980–2021

)

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Abloh treated design as an open-source system — quotation, irony, and access replacing hierarchy.

His work folded streetwear, conceptual art, and pop logic into a single vocabulary of cultural circulation.

Structural Focus

Rule-Based Freedom

Constraints or systems generate variation. Freedom arises through adherence to rules rather than expressive choice.

In Virgil Abloh’s work, this approach appears where systems remix cultural codes.

Position

Rule-Based Freedom

Constraints or systems generate variation. Freedom arises through adherence to rules rather than expressive choice.

In Virgil Abloh’s work, this approach appears where systems remix cultural codes.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Slowness as rebellion

Play as structure

In Dialogue

Rachel Whiteread

negative space as form