Interact or React

If we view architecture in terms of interface with its own immediate environment, at each step of the creation process (which is generative in one form or another) the next element or condition interacts or reacts to its current condition or that of its adjacent environment. In other words, it has a starting point, moves directionally, reads the context of its adjacency, imprints the space, either changes or retains its state or stops. If particular moves, imprints, states or stops are dictated by a fixed relationship, the architecture is generated by a Turing Machine.

The same could be said for the building process or any assembly of components – whether it be a pattern of bricks or steel structure. None the less, the more interesting proposition concerns intuitive or artful generation of form; is this an unconscious programmed function, perhaps programmed by human experience? In such case, the architect is a TM.

Perhaps there is an analogy to the empirical; reality based in that it is derived from experience or experiment and not derived from theory. Maybe it is the empirical architect who is the TM.