List of Hypotheses for the 3 Clients

These are the hypotheses generated by 2 of our 5 study groups from yesterday's studio. You must email me your group's list or else you need to select your 2 hypotheses for each of the 3 clients from THIS list.

Sigmund Freud:

• Dreams act as the guardians of sleep.
• Analogies make people feel more comfortable.
• Anatomy is destiny.
• Civilisation began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of rock.
• Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
• As humans we become fixated on different and specific objects through three stages of development, known as the oral, anal and phallic stages.
• Repressed emotions will return to haunt a person in one form or another in the future.
• Humans are inherently driven by two conflicting central desires of life and death.
• The human psyche inherently possesses three elements, the Id, the Ego, and the Super-ego.   *Relate to building by stating three elements – idea of balance.
• Religion was conceived as a device to suppress violence and act as a mediator to the conflicts between the central forces of life and death.
• Buildings are like dreams – they express our secret desires.
• Our nature is a competition of our animal and moral instincts.

Isaac Newton:

• Gravity pulls everything to a point.
• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
• Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in this state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
• A prism can decompose white light into a spectrum of colours.
• A second prism can recompose the multicoloured spectrum into white light.
• Mathematics is the central principle organizing the physical universe.
• There is an invisible force able to act over vast distances.
• Somewhere in the world, something is pushing back
• Gravity affects the orbits of the planets and explains their irregular patterns.
• Gravity can bend light and create colour.

Maria Agnesi:

• Agnesi’s work on the infinite series and differential equations has had a profound impact on the development of modern mathematics.
• We must all be free to study the divine science of architecture.
• Social commitment is a necessary accompaniment to geometric truth.
• A mathematically sound building is a certain building.
• At its core, social commitment is a necessary accompaniment to mathematical truth.