The relevance of form is established through its generational rationale. The governance of its physical properties is derivative of the rules and operations that establish its specificity. To critically engage a precision of form, the opportunities of serial iteration within a type allows for iteration to examine difference.

The Serial Project
Type and variant through the iteration allows for the permeation of an idea. The benefit of families is they allow for collective concentration of an investigation while providing diverse opportunities through partial differentiation. Shared sensibilities taken in diverse trajectories establish operational logics that transcend the authorial process of the single design. The series privileges instead a systemic approach that responds to the larger disciplinary field to engage the design inquiry though the permutation. The methods imply an open source sensibility to seriality intrinsically encouraging the riff.

Architectural Evolution of the Nine Square
The nine square as an originating historical typology emerges from a classical reading that generated a centralized plan (a clearly articulated and typically hierarchical central space) encircled with a peripheral zone of the surrounding 8 squares. This evolved from a static, symmetrical, and concentric logic (Palladio) to a field system with subordinated localized orders within a collagist composition (Le Corbusier), ultimately arriving at a reduced kit of parts removing programmatic function and materiality to privilege the abstraction of the compositional system (Hejduk).

Next 9
Building upon these three evolutionary stages of the nine square through geometry, system and narrative; the next evolution allows for compositional primitivism, instigated by rational figuration, and articulated by programmatic function, to establish an elemental reconsideration. Engaging the geometric rubrics with pragmatic realities, the variation and iteration metamorphose across the differential articulations of the system. These 9 – 9 square houses demonstrate this process.