The Black Box Connection

The Black Box - Erika Kruger, Slide 10/11

Erika Kruger’s complex piece of work is able to be related my own through the notion of form as we pay particular attention to the section “1. Analogy of the Cave”. History has presented the notion of form to be a sense continually defined through the notion that it reveals architectures beauty through not the shapes which make up a structure but rather the space it defines around itself. Kruger’s exploration of the cave reveals the way in which within a cave our experience is defined by the form of space and material which surrounds us and not the air in between, enhanced through the notion we see not the caves shadows but only our own. This notion directly relates to our formations of rectangular prisms as we are defining architectural form through not the interior of the shapes but rather the space around the prisms.