Stereotomic Permutations

So after reading the article for the fourth time this is what I got……. Preston Scott Cohen’s writings on Stereotomic Permutations attempts to develop a way by which one could view and understand an object by eliminating the boundary between description and perception. He is led to this analysis by the distortion of rational paradigmatic operations such as linearity, symmetry, scale, intersection, folding, ect… He uses the concept of parallel projection in juxtaposition to point perspective method to construct an argument that the blending of these two devices in light of the design process, would give us an architecture that’s “implicit order symmetrical order is repeatedly brought to bear on its objects and perspectives by forcing them to intersect, join, and fold back on themselves to form a series.” I find this to be an interesting investigation, but find my self speculative about the practicality and usability of the determinant results. I appreciate his conscious effort to blend that in architecture, which is descriptive with that of perception, and I found the process and graphic representation to be quite compelling.