Quinn McCormack
Free-Style
Freestyle Architecture, as defined in this thesis, operates through multiple definitions to challenge traditional boundaries of style, process, and authorship. Moreover, the canon of Architecture through style, tectonics, and process can be blurred into continuous freestyle spatial sequences that dissolve the boundaries of traditional singular precedent. Through this process multiple histories may be sensed; however, through technical precision, the transitions between the styles become either overtly seamless or contradictory to create discourse. Tectonics, ornament, and the fundamental principles of Architecture are reframed from different contexts in order to create arguments and counterarguements, avoiding overt declarations of hybridity or total authorship. Through this procedure, the style merging reveals how the method shapes but does not dictate the outcome. By producing different aesthetics from the same workflow, it reframes the style as a result of many decisions rather than a predetermined endpoint. In the contemporary digital environment, AI, specifically generative design models, has accelerated not only stylistic fluidity but, as a result, reduced the importance of the author. Therefore, style and author have been collapsed into singular references, meaning images are now spliced between infinite means of interpretation of authorship. Within this context, freestyle offers a critical counterpoint: while embracing multiplicity and hybridity, it maintains the intentionality and authorship of manual digital making, positioning itself between the hyper-fluid world of algorithmic generation and the deliberate act of crafted design. Through these varied approaches, freestyle emerges as an intentional practice that redefines the relationship between process, style, and authorship. It demonstrates that architecture can be fluid, contradictory, and resistant to singular vision, engaging with history while refusing to be bound by it, and reasserting the value of intentional craft in an age of instant, style-agnostic production.
