ARCHITECTURE

Extraction and adaptation are methods for approaching architecture, and the treatment of site and program, that is less expansive than traditional architectural ideologies.  It assumes that architecture can be an extension of existing conditions, offering incremental improvements grafted onto conventional structures or forms.  By extracting conditions from a site, the resultant programs, spaces and forms are adapting to the given context as it changes over time.  This particular type of site and program specificity moves away from stylistic modes, towards an architecture of inevitability...