The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an interesting fashion exhibition installed called, I kid you not, blog.mode: addressing fashion. The tenuous connection to blogs comes in the form of daily postings discussing the individual collection items. The installation itself does not break any new ground, but the assemblage of the unique pieces is interesting in light of the continued commingling of fashion and architecture. Gottfried Semper’s Four Elements of Architecture postulates weaving as one of four basic elements of the Primitive Hut¹ (Hearth, Roof, Mound and Fence) where the Fence was composed of woven mats or cloths, not stone. Semper, according to Kenneth Frampton proposes that the woven knot is the oldest tectonic form of the joint.² So architects have been looking to fashion at least since 1851, with many today dabbling in fashion (Gehry, Karim Rashid).
The question I still have is, do fashion designers drape form better then architects; if so, why? Comments open.

Footnotes
1. Published 1851, Semper’s work was a response to the many and varied hypotheses published postulating what the one “true” source of architecture was. Charles Darwin’s publication of the theory of natural selection is a contemporary work which undoubtedly fueled the research into primitive forms. Also contemporary to this work was the “discover” that the Greeks used Polychrome throughout their temples, throwing many hundreds of years of certainty into chaos. &#8617
2. See Weaving as an Analogy for Architectural Design which points us to Studies in Tectonic Culture; The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture by Kenneth Frampton. &#8617