Combines

The next step, after taking apart of all internal elements in architecture is to recombine these pieces. One reason to combine these fragment elements together is try to blur the boundary of definition in architecture. For instance, most works of the American pop artist Robert Rauschenberg are called “Combines.” Rauschenberg's Combines imitate the arbitrary accumulations of objects to be found in museum collections. Positioned between the culture of the mass media and the museum, the Combines point towards the massive information that makes our experience in everyday life. Rauschenberg's work repeatedly pulls the realms of art and the everyday into close proximity, yet we must recall that he attempts "to act in the gap between the two." In many ways the viewer is placed in that gap, a space in between the cast-off commodities of yesterday and the high art to be preserved for posterity . However, the meaning of a process combined with different architectural elements could also seem to blur the definition boundary; all opposite definition such as: interior and exterior, modern and classical, pass and present, breakdown through recombination. The observers, also as viewers, become breakers who watch or pass through them.