except in UIs it was not reduntant because visible contours was a deliberately added functional component to take advantage of our (very fast) depth-perception capabilities. The equivalent in architecture would be to remove handles from doors
> Eisenman took his duty to create “disharmony” seriously: one Eisenman-designed house so departed from the normal concept of a house that its owners actually wrote an entire book about the difficulties they experienced trying to live in it. For example, Eisenman split the master bedroom in two so the couple could not sleep together, installed a precarious staircase without a handrail, and initially refused to include bathrooms. In his violent opposition to the very idea that a real human being might actually attempt to live (and crap, and have sex) in one of his houses, Eisenman recalls the self-important German architect from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall, who becomes exasperated the need to include a staircase between floors: “Why can’t the creatures stay in one place? The problem of architecture is the problem of all art: the elimination of the human element from the consideration of form. The only perfect building must be the factory, because that is built to house machines, not men.”
except in UIs it was not reduntant because visible contours was a deliberately added functional component to take advantage of our (very fast) depth-perception capabilities. The equivalent in architecture would be to remove handles from doors