By this we mean the search for forms that are featureless: that have no meaning, pursue no overt
ambition or purpose, have no direction, articulate no up and down or front and back, that are not
individual or specific, but are instead supremely general. Examples are the box or cube with its equal
sides, the blob with its continuous homogenous surface. But the filling in of residual space can also be
regarded as formless, as can the extrusion of the building site, the folding of a surface or any other
automatic process that produces a form without aesthetic ambition, without intent to be a form.
Formlessness, while it seems to be supplanting post-modernism, is at the same time inconceivable
without it. It is rooted in the very cultural and economic changes that are ascribed to the post-modern
era