"The building evades its cartesian definition: not representing an essential form, but a form of 'becoming'" (P.Eisenman, commentary on the Alteka office building Japan, in Architectural Design Profile, n. 102, p.28)

literature:
Manuel de Landa: The machinic phylum
Libeskind/Balmond: Unfolding
Stan Allen: Diagrams Matter
Tufte: Visual Explanations and Envisioning Information
Eisenman Architects: Diagram Diaries
Eisenman Architects: Selected and Current Works
Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques
work of early Eisenman, Hejduk, Judd...