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Julião Sarmento — White Works
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Material as Structure
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Systems of Clarity
Atlas Index:
OBS-ART-033
Origin:
Lisbon
Era:
1970s–1990s
Themes / Lineage:
material reduction • plane logic
Field Notes:
reduction • white • surface
Quiet Modernism appears here as structure emerging from material constraint.

Material as Structure

Julião Sarmento — White Works

Material determines alignment.

Form follows constraint.

Structure persists.

How does organization arise?
Form is often treated as leading material, yet hierarchy reverses. Constraint governs relation. What continues is order emerging from material limits.

Form is often treated as leading material, yet hierarchy reverses.

Constraint governs relation.

What continues is order emerging from material limits.

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