Abstract:This paper discusses Geo_Soft's relationship to issues of aesthetics, complexity theory and technology.Complexity theory will be discussed insofar as its relationship to architecture is concerned, whi...This paper discusses Geo_Soft's relationship to issues of aesthetics, complexity theory and technology.Complexity theory will be discussed insofar as its relationship to architecture is concerned, which will then lead into a review of the difference between Representation and Performativity.The recent semiotic tradition associated with post modern architectural writers of the 1960-1980s declared that the meaning of architecture was lost during the modernist period and that architecture should not break with its history.Performativity has been extended beyond the meaning given to it by Judith Butler.More specifically, the issue of complexity aesthetics will be analysed historically and critiqued by unveiling the differences between Venturi's 'Complexity and Contraction' and Le Corbusier's 'Towards a New Architecture', concurrently with the recent discourse regarding Performativity.A grading system for defining complexity will be explored by reference to the theory of the Edge of Chaos and finally, complexity will be explained through the pragmatic issues that emerged during the making of Geo_Soft, a rapid prototype sculpture.Read More