Part 3｜COWPYRIGHT—Another Body of Architecture

COWPYRIGHT belongs to the history of architecture.It is neither a character nor a mascot.It is not simply a sign or a logo.Rather, it is a device to access architectural discourse—a misdelivery that dislocates existing architectural perception and reassembles it anew.

We have long understood architecture as “structure,” or as “function.”But COWPYRIGHT presents the physicality of architecture in an entirely different form.

The thick-rimmed glasses frame intelligence.The nose ring resembles a door knocker,and the tongue—sticking out like a parody of a genius—carries with it a kind of architectural gesture.

Its cow pattern is not mere ornament.Those spots can be translated into concrete, iron, or wood—in other words, into material itself.They symbolize architecture’s recursive loop of thought.

The body of this structure is encased in a mold shaped like an open book.Spread fully at 180 degrees, the book holds this form in silence.But this is not just packaging; it is a mold for duplication.

So what might be poured into it?Water, to create ice.Clay, to form a golem.Chocolate, perhaps, for an edible architecture.

What are these duplicates to architecture?Modular fragments?A critique of modernist repetition?A postmodern game?Or a new behavioral mode of architecture within the loops of consumer culture?

This “book as mold” is both a vessel of knowledge and a structure for material fixation.What flows into it—ideas, memory, emotion—soaks into the body like fluid.What is produced is not just a copy of form.It is a copy of architectural questions.

But why a cow?Because it dwells in the liminal space between folklore and divinity—a being architecture has unconsciously avoided.The cow embodies both practical use as livestock and reverence as a sacred figure.It is labor, sacrifice, and abundance.And within that duality lies the fundamental power of architecture.

COWPYRIGHT is displayed, worn, circulated, and moves through the city.It is never fixed, never static—yet still structural.This is a radical revision of “construction” as architecture’s primal principle.

This figure is a visualized interface between architecture and other domains.It is also a new format for architecture to move, to be worn, to be replicated.

The question is this:When does architecture stop being architecture?Or, can architecture become anything?

COWPYRIGHT holds no answer.But it presents the question—in its very form.