Platonic Architecture

"Plato's epistemology holds that knowledge of Platonic Ideas is innate, so that learning is the development of ideas buried deep in the soul, often under the midwife-like guidance of an interrogator. In several dialogues by Plato, the character Socrates presents the view that each soul existed before birth with the Form of the Good and a perfect knowledge of Ideas. Thus, when an Idea is 'learned' it is actually just 'recalled'."

Somol and Whiting identify in Notes around the Doppler Effect And other moods of Modernism the notion of Projective architecture. Projective architecture is likened to that of the Doppler Effect, acknowledging what was and also moving towards what can be. In a way, they are touching on the idea of architecture and epistemology. Though architecture can be shaped by the past and contingent on ideals, manifestos, and experiences it also possesses a notion of autonomy and transformation of things yet to happen. Thus Somol and Whiting acknowledge multiple avenues for information processing, memory, and replication. Projective architecture is not delineated, but discovered through a transformative process over time and exploration of what can and will shape architecture, however that will build upon something that has already been.

As an example, BIG uses the typology of the Greek turned Italian portico to inform a modern factory; San Pellegrino Flagship Factory.