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Abstract
This paper explores the concept of the Universalist Architect through the lens of Wilhelm Reich’s theories on life energy. Reich, a radical psychoanalyst and scientist, postulated the existence of “orgone energy”—a universal life force that influences human well-being and the environment. By integrating Reich’s insights into architecture, this paper argues for a holistic, energetic approach to design that transcends material form and engages with the vital forces that shape human experience. The Universalist Architect seeks to create spaces that harmonize with the natural flow of energy, fostering psychological and physiological balance. This exploration bridges architecture, metaphysics, and biophysics, proposing a new paradigm where the built environment becomes a conduit for life energy rather than a mere functional or aesthetic construct. Through historical analysis and contemporary applications, this study envisions an architecture that aligns with the rhythms of life itself.
Keywords: architectural thought, universalism, geometry, architectural theory
The emergence of understanding the effects of a universe of energies on habitat has birthed a new horizon, resulting in a new revolutionary theory of architectural thought. The epic events of the last century have set the stage for a new polemic, where Universal Architectural thinking emerges. The advent of space travel opened the door to vast horizons of thought and previously unimagined scientific theories. The infusion of cultural memes in consideration of universal exploration has, oddly, also redefined the architect’s design process. New understandings of environmental science have advanced the art of energy’s interactions with habitat. With humanity’s expansion into this new age of design, unearthly realms can now be contemplated and incorporated.
A new perspective of our understanding shall inspire Architects forward. In the 1940s, Wilhelm Reich invented the orgone energy accumulator, and from his work with this “mystical box” he postulated that life-energy moving through materials could enhance biology. Aligned to this Zeitgeist of metaphysical exploration, humans escaped the planetary constraints and landed on the moon, initiating our collective cultural impulse to further engage dynamically with the universe. Bio-morphism ripened from the surreal to the concrete, as green ecological paradigms shot tendrils through the Architectural language. A fundamental change of the structural consciousness began to focus on life functionalism as the primary impulse and informant throughout the Universe, an energetically-shaped psychogeography reconceived sense of place. The game changed, and soliloquy became conversation with the other.
Just as Giordano Bruno’s Neo-Copernican cosmology facilitated the theoretical and philosophical exploration of infinite physical potentiality, the modern occurrence of space flight has prompted the awareness of a visceral and vital universe ‒ one where spatial-temporal homogeneity is no longer primary, and boundaries blur. Such a revelation inaugurates an age of “Universalism.”
As humanity set out to analyze the inherent complexities of this dramatic universe, the visceral juxtaposition of an infinitely small micromolecular and infinitely large macroverse demanded the creation of a new language. In answer to this revelatory frisson, computational conceptualization expanded to reveal mathematics and geometry as universal basic components, the admixture of which produced universal solutions. The resultant paradigm blossomed, encompassing a fundamental understanding of the interdependent nature of all things. The modular was banished in favor of the manifold, encompassing everything, everywhere, in our multiverse of time.
Predisposed to anthropomorphic conceits, we re-conceptualize ourselves reflected in the dark mirror of artificial intelligence. This newly established dichotomy incorporates and surpasses an understanding of the simplistic binary, or zero one, paradigm, and the reductionist thought process therein. An unprecedented juxtaposition of the natural and the digital precipitates complex interactions of mind and matter. Universalist Architecture must respond in kind.
A fundamental scientific paradigm shift launched from the detritus of our industrial century confirms the facticity that life molecules and life cycles are essential to our understanding of the computational design heuristics that emerge. Frequency, resonance, and scale appear critical. With the regolith of cultural analogue and removed bedrock discombobulated parametric we conceive an intuitive vocabulary for all things. Making a leap towards accepting a new metric, we find a Universal consciousness with the potential to characterize life force as the corporeal energy pervading everything.
Universalism Architecture
Universalism Architecture gestated as humanity breached outer space. With space travel came the possibility of life off-planet – that is, life understood as the astrophysicist’s primary force of the expansion in the Universe. The Modern Age was birthed through industrialization and the age of reason and became life in a prosthetic mechanical extension. Now, with the contemporary phenomena of AI and augmented thought, Universalism, like some rough lumbering beast, shakes itself and rises. The Universal Theory of Architecture is born.
Orienting to the Universal construction langue moving forward, we search for the archetypical shift that will qualify emerging theory. Increasing complexity, emergence of cosmogenesis, coupled with computational awareness, morphogenesis, and deconflicting iconologies, become part of a new model of the Universe. Quantum theory (e = mc2) tells us that energy and matter are interchangeable. It is within the friction of this duo’s phantom dance that the molecule of life emerges and is recognized as primary within the Universalism paradigm shift.
Without concepts based on experience and collective remembrance of cultural iconologies, the vital structural theory of architecture would not arise. While incorporating all preceding theories, concepts, and iconography, awareness manifests that the fundamental platform of Architecture in the Universe is the force of Life. Life is the fundamental universal ingredient, and life energy is the lens we use for conceptualization of constructed cultural icons. Within the matrix of creation, Universalism shifts focus to a Life force criterion. Organism supersedes mechanism.
Architecture has previously been viewed through a narrow window of Life systems. Many iconic elements of modern Architecture, with all the accompanying structural heroisms, have employed a nascent life-functional vocabulary. “Visionary” architecture has at times approached the Universalist ideal, while intersecting only tangentially with the full spectrum of the Universalist aesthetic. Life processes and cycles are used only as functional biomimetic design parameters, including roadway arteries, the life cycle of buildings, living building challenges, and energy conservation. Biomimicry occurs throughout architectonic discourse, a nascent organic vocabulary that already skirts Life function descriptions. Universalism theory builds from these concepts of life functioning, and on the entropic cosmic pulse of Life. The concept that Life is the undeniable underlying force of the universe becomes self-evident and primary. Architectural inclination then recognizes that all energy is a form of Life, with various levels of complexity and consciousness. It is a matter of cognizance of scale.
A Universal theory based on the miscellaneous influences of past, present, future, and conceptually all-inclusive, encompassing prehistory into the future, physically and ephemerally, micro and macro, is formulated, incorporating all, betwixt and between the smallest elements of matter and the infinitely large Universe. The way forward is unlimited incorporation within an Architectural universe enriching a rhizomic paradigm of ever-evolving novelty, all so that as Giordano Bruno wrote “the structure of the Universe flourishes.” (On the Infinite Universe and Worlds” 1584.) As Architects embrace the fundamental concepts of life, a new vernacular for design emerges, integrating history, practice, and future dreams. Architecture becomes more akin to clothing. Vital living systems are the recombinant building blocks of this new Architectural vocabulary.
Universalism Architecture embraces the added responsibility to enhance and accentuate positive biological effects on occupants. Habitat is no longer only a filter but an accumulator and amplifier of life force energies. “It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny.”
Computational Reality
The computational simulation of our thought process in this connective age is another harbinger of a Universalist future. The concept of the Egregore has been well studied regarding social media. Hive minds, swarm minds, data farms, biometric harvesting, and smart cities are at our fingertips, but to what end? Has collective consciousness become a tangible reality?
Once, our concept of infinity was only a theoretical idea. Now, zettaflops communally calculate answers to eternal questions instantly, and the resolutions to infinite calculations are realized in the blink of an eye. Time, space, and place are re-conceptualized over and over again, as silicon spins energy into the eternal delight of amplified awareness. All the while, artificial intelligence weaves its matrix into the design culture. Architecture becomes a living, breathing concept, integrated within a computational understanding.
The historical ecosystem of Architecture was based on styles, rooted in myths, beholden to icons, and constricted by obsolete function and forms. The spectra of classicalism vs. modernism haunt our structures. Now and henceforth, computational tools will invoke novel and revolutionary designs. Comprehensive databases of imagery and iconography, both actual and AI-generated, present the referential underpinnings to fuel inspiration. Universalist design embraces the first idea, birthed from primed cognition, as inspiration. Previously unattainable potentialities have rushed forth into actualization.
The expansion of the glossary of design tools irrevocably redefines the parameters of our conceptualization. Redundant architectural discourse on haggard concepts has evolved into a living biometric vocabulary that primarily consists of functionalism in the biosphere. A topological inversion of aesthetics is at hand.
Universalist Manifesto
The result is this Universalist Architectural Manifesto, launched forth with optimism and anticipation that future science and discoveries will manifest profound utopic shifts in how we interact with the built environment. Assisted by the digital revolution, we understand the enormous cascade of information the new lexicon gives us. The complexity of life’s psychogeography increases exponentially within this dynamic multiplicity of forms. The living universal language follows the same path, as profound changes increase every year and leap through time with every decade. Theory must assimilate the new cosmogenesis of our place in the Universe.
Universal design, Tagore’s Universalism, and Universalism in Modern Architecture are all incorporated into Universalist Architecture. Our new paradigm is accessible and inclusive by its nature. All traditions are interacting and incorporated. Universal ideas have struggled with anthropomorphism, natural sciences, and the environment. Modernism struggled through styles, forms, faith, and Cosmic impacts. Universal became the term to describe the resulting confluence. This Universalist Manifesto emerges to express and encompass the holistic understanding of our computational concept of everything. Architecture as a living concept emerges within a Universal Theory.
Alfred North Whitehead wrote “The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty…. The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation…. Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad…. Truth matters because of beauty.” (Adventures in Ideas 1967.)
The Universalism approach to life should not be just in the quantification of its mysteries, but also in the deepening of the experience of life’s qualities and the substances in which life is enmeshed. Humanity has not yet plumbed the depths of any material’s inherent qualities. Ruder forms survive. What aspects of some forms and materials make them more life-friendly than others? What element(s) of substance might evoke a beneficial Parasympathetic Nervous System response? These qualities remain spectral, but more and more they solidify out of the miasma of correlated data and shared experience. Research has detected slight environmental temperature differentials between forms, volumes, and materials. Experiments using dowsing techniques confirm that some substances are more dynamic than others. Our sensing of subtle energies grows. Humanity’s sensorium, prompted from new environments both virtual and real, expands. Little is currently known of resonant energies in built environments, but more concepts in design will develop these ephemeral qualities. Humanity deserves dwellings that reinforce life energy.
Dreams have long played a fundamental role in the conceptualization phase of the design process. Humanity must first dream of the future before the terminology blueprint emerges. Sleep allows our subconscious access to visualizations consisting of fanciful confluences of ideas. Dreams can be the ultimate manifestation of a euphoric aesthetic design orgasm, as the creative act is displaced from the confines of physicality. Artists experience the eureka moment at idea conception and again upon reflection of a completed work. Creative endorphins are a major wellspring of life. The spontaneous morphogenesis of self-organization occurs in an increasingly complex manner, known as élan vital.
Existence, and orientation in space, with bodies rotating in all their planes, prompted the first awareness of topology. Constructing habitat in the environment came next, with the first fundamental concepts of Architecture. Resultant from the basics of “empty” and “full” came number, then measurement, encompassing the essentials of food, tribe, and place. From these, the first language of human consciousness emerged. Utterance tangled with culture, as language became vocabulary. Alphabets appeared and geometry was deployed, extending to architectural phenomena. Architecture was the first language and becomes our future universal langue.
The genome of Architectural vocabulary has developed into a cyber-interactive continuum of nonlinear information processing. Our conceptualization of space and place, augmented by amplified computer calculation, gives new parametric prototypes, as cyborgs interface and augment with computational models. The primum movens, as an infinite living consciousness, becomes comprehensible.
Geometry Fundamentals
Mapping the genome of geometry comprehensively illustrates the transformation from simple into complex forms. Geometric recursions of living processes bring a new vocabulary of morphology to grow Architectural expression. Within this new paradigm, the cube in four dimensions becomes tangible. Modeling no longer needs to be accomplished through analog metrics; rather, forms can now be simulated and scaled computationally. Intuitive choices are conceived fluidly within a new virtual world. The Universalist design process no longer slogs through physicality but surfs a multi-dimensional morphology of forms realized through digital assistance and augmentation. Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.
The rigid fundamentals of mathematics and geometry have shaped the iconography of past architectural theory. Form and number underlie the basis of our conscious perception of three-dimensional space. Number and geometry make up the fundamental language of the Universe. The periodic table of elements creates order in space through the arrangement of atoms. The basic polarity of atoms results in fundamental geometry. The natural laws of physics forced architectural potentialities into a box. Geometric transformations using pi (an infinite number) can simulate life processes. Studying growing plant life produces mathematical functionally based patterns of morphing form. New actuators give rise to a Universal geometric understanding of all things.
Classical physics holds matter and energy interchangeable. However, energy tends towards diffusion in matter, where difference is lost and sameness, we are told, is inevitable. Entropy is put in check by novelty. Life force is the novel force in the universe that brings in new information and rolls back the thermodynamic tendencies inherent in matter. Again, Sigmund Freud writes “Energy is eternal delight.” (Beyond the Pleasure Principal, 1920.) The Life molecule is a dynamic entity and is the instigator of novelty and, hence, pleasure, a wellspring of life ‒ life that tends to variegate into increased complexity as the structure of the Universe flourishes.
Materials
Certain fundamental forces and tensions can be relied on as universal. Assemblage of materials resident in structural domains is reliant on both a planet’s field of gravimetric magnetism and orientation relative to the stars. Recognition of this hidden web of influences, of the energy filtering, accumulating, and flowing through construction materials, must be understood for the future of Universalist design. The built environment must be contemplated within the micro and macro universe of impacts. Recognition replaces awareness in this cascading paradigm shift.
Materials have a lifespan. Functionally, they oscillate, expand, and contract, echoing life’s biology. It is believed that some materials are good for health and others unhealthy. Asbestos, lead, and other toxins are bad choices for our built environment. However, wood, stone, and certain metals (iron, zinc, silver, and gold) essential to life processes are preferred choices for our habitats. There is no doubt that humans are instinctively, intuitively, attracted to certain healthy materials that improve their moods.
Materials can alter the energy of our habitat, stopping, storing, filtering, accumulating, and transforming the energy of the Universe. The materials architects use not only affect our aesthetic appreciation of structures, but they also contribute to the sustainability of life within spaces. The energy of life, in all form(s), becomes an essential ingredient integrated into Universalist Architecture
A new catalog of Architectural design solutions, devices, and assemblies is anticipated in Universalist theory. Human Environ Research Structures will inform our human sensorium awareness. Sophisticated scientific devices to measure the energy flow through structures, such as infrared photography, power monitoring, and radiation detection, are now common. The science of heat, light, and radiation flowing through our structures is now well documented and encoded into energy conservation codes. Technological and intuitive measuring devices are on the horizon, as Universalist parameters are incorporated into the designing of Architecture for life energy. This emphatic awareness of energies filtering through substances will fundamentally change the design of Architecture. Resource efficiency is a symptom of cybernetic feedback and the computational capacity to evaluate it.
Measuring the various energies flowing through material assemblages will enhance understanding of the magnetic, gravitational, and life energy inherent in Architecture. Layered micro assemblies can advance the viability of wall laminations to create an elastic structural dynamic. An awareness of how energies are transmitted through material assemblages will advance new catalogs of architectural design solutions and devices. The buildings of the future, based on Universalist theory, will act as cybernetic extensions of the biophilic human form, as in “singular to universal” or the homeostasis lapses engendered by Allostasis.
Current design has embraced Green structures, the Living Building Challenge, Cradle to Cradle design, morphology, nana-tectonics, layered envelopes, living walls, Net Zero-Energy (NZE) buildings, energy-collecting materials, and smart houses. Universalist architects envision the further development of holistic environments. Implementation of life force accumulator habitats introduces new components into the DNA of Architecture.
Aesthetic experiences of fashioned environments encounter intoxication with non-rectangular spaces. The addiction to angle is broken. Indeed, the pantheon and the arch changed architectural history. Looking to the future exploration of design trajectories in construction, our collaborative consciousness endeavors to move beyond past ideas and uses with the innovations and technologies of evolving disciplines. New findings and prototypes become available for re-use and further development, as in missives from a midden mound. Form metastasizes thermal, light, resonance, and conscious life energies with materials that shape the built environment. Synergy develops between the occupant’s conscious perceptual sensation and interaction with the structure. Habitat becomes an extension of the user’s body, facilitating continued increases in the complexity of comprehension. Pluriform architecture becomes an extension of our new interactive cybernetic reality.
The walls of our contemporary structures are constructed of layers of materials. Wilhelm Reich postulated that components consisting of such layered materials could accumulate life’s energy. His orgone boxes used layers of organic materials between metallic sheets, much like the insulated wall systems commonly used today. Layered wall sections also mimic electronic capacitor technology. Energy moving through layers of materials is transformed, altered, and stored. Any being within these structures engages and absorbs these nascent forces. A consistent vocabulary of energy transformation through layered materials can be universally life-affirming. The development of a catalogue of such material assemblies is paramount for Universalist Architects.
Science has evolved to embrace vibrating string theory, neutrinos, dark matter, black holes, and all manner of quantum strangeness. Scholarly postulations of additional dimensions beyond our current perception of space and time are commonly accepted. Encyclopedic awareness of the universe has increased exponentially. With vast computational capabilities and the manipulation of information in DNA, new life-energy prototypes are anticipated. The construction of a charged, life-enhancing environment is conceptualized to facilitate unforeseen actuators. These materials of Universal Architecture affirm and enhance a user’s life.
Living Energy
We accept energy as the basic life-force of the universe. Energy, when allied with form, transposes to information, which inspires consciousness. Life-energy, when expressed as diverse manifestations of consciousness and tangled with matter, fuels and offers incentive towards creation. Inanimate rocks become soil and, with Abiogenesis, become plants, become animals, become humans with a conscious mind that creates artificial intelligence, resplendent in the new divergence. Speciation propels us forward with increased complexity and awareness.
Universalists view life as the energy that fuels the universe from its beginning into its future. These fundamental zoetic forces are the basic concepts of this emerging architectural theory. Based on the energy of life principles, we exist in an ever-expanding universe of possibility. The dance of life forces systems from entropy through synergy to negentropy.
From this, the DNA of Architecture is mapped. Humankind’s inventiveness radiates forth into our galaxy and the Universe beyond. Like a living system, the Universalist Manifesto of Architecture will grow, change, develop, and expand. Potentialities are actualized in unforeseen ways. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modern adage, “Less is More,” is transformed within Universalism into “the simplicity of complexity.”
Energy-releasing chemical reactions are at the core of the living process of all organisms. These bioenergetic reactions have a myriad of substrates and products, but their main by-product is adenosine triphosphate (ATP), life’s primary currency of metabolic energy. Universalist designs focus on ATP’s enhancement.
Created by humanity, the farthest-reaching manifestation of culture is Architecture, which by its nature is living and evolving. Emerging theory imagines living designs that are sensuous environs. All things, all dimensions, are alive, emitting resonance. All matter is composed of energy, and all energy is alive, although with varying levels of complexity and awareness. They are producing Negentropy and Syntropy, increasing our perceptual vocabulary, and propagating increased understanding. All concepts in the Universalist architectural design model are analyzed and processed with the functional principles underpinning life. Science recognizes the ability to store vast amounts of information in DNA. It presents evidence that we can change our DNA and pass it on. The embryo of Universalist thought will grow limbs and appendages, and a new DNA of Architecture shall emerge, propagating a new human speciation with cybernetic enhancements interacting with the Architectural environment of the future.
Conclusion
Architectural theory cannot be separated from professional practice. As licensed professionals, we believe that our ethics are to protect the life, health, and welfare of people, our user citizenry. We are the doctors of the environment. If a building’s shape and assemblage have harmful effects on the life, health, and welfare of the user, we are ethically bound to know about it and to design for the well-being of the building’s occupants.
Conceptually all-inclusive, from prehistory into the future, physical and ephemeral, the way forward is Universal Theory. While offering a future view of anticipation, history within the universe of ideas contributes to the elements of design. A universal aesthetic ‒ historic, computational, and geometric ‒ viewed through microscopic and macroscopic lenses, materializes. All factors considered in the design solution function within this new paradigm.
Universalist Architectural theory identifies the emerging multidisciplinary paradigms of our new sensorial and computational awareness of the environment. It is time to move beyond the accoutrements of the duck and the decorated shed and intimately engage the invisible landscape’s flow of life-force energy. New design parameters of the Universalist Architect are formed out of a functional thinking philosophy building on layered assemblies and forms that enhance the energy of life. The universalist architect designs for micro-atomic structures paired with the macro-environmental impacts and gives attention to the bioenergetic analysis of materials and form. Designers understand the energy flow from the fringe to the center and reverse, including analysis of the structure’s pulsation and accumulation of energy; enhancement of the occupant’s vitality; function of the orgasm’s contribution to creativity as the wellspring of life; expansion and contraction or inhalation and exhalation of structures; and grounding of structures in place. These functional design philosophies empower architects with agency to grow buildings and create the Universalist Architecture of our ever-expanding sensuous life.
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