Soft(ware) Boundaries exhibition aims to introduce to the Israeli public prominent contemporary architectural designs generated with computers and the theory behind these designs. Specifically, we wish to expose the local public to the soft, folded, curved surface of the new architectural objects. The Title ‘Soft(ware) Boundaries‘ refers both to the formal appearance and to the computer as its mean of production.

In the exhibition we would like to emphasize the challenges that designing with computer posits against the Euclidian modernist formal language by introducing curvilinear surfaces, hypersurfaces, isomorphic polysurfaces (blobs) and by creating a higher level of formal complexity in architecture. These emphases will be backed up by philosophies and theories such as the Deleuzian fold.

‘Soft(ware) Boundaries’, nevertheless, will not only focus on of formal manifsations and conceptuals definitions of the boundaries of new architecture, but it will also present the meaning of these manifestations for architecture and culture. It is clear that the emerging formal language redefines our perception of the relations between outside and inside, wall to floor. It presents new relationships between public and private domains and between the built environment and its users. The smooth surfaces helps to formally unite what not so long ago was “deconstructed”. ‘Soft(ware) Boundaries’ will emphasize all these.

The exhibition will present architectural projects, using animation and multimedia presentation on computer screens and projected on the gallery walls. It will present about 10 works by international architects, among them Peter Eisenman, Servo, Diller + Scofidio, +Ramtv, Emergen-C, Ocean D, Greg Lynn – Form, Asymptote, Zaha Hadid, Tom Covak and Kas Oosterthuis.