Formlessness in present-day architecture does not constitute a new aesthetic or formal agenda, but is
instead on the one hand a programmatic starting point (the featurelessness of programmes, the
devaluation of forms) and on the other hand a method of avoiding formalism and of establishing
alternative agendas to the pursuit of any one style or form. It articulates the paradox of the
simultaneous impossibility and necessity of form. Formlessness does not yet provide a satisfactory
answer as to agenda or ambition of a project or architectural work. The strategies that we have touched
upon are intended as examples of employing formlessness as a generative force for the creation of a
new architecture.