Lebbeus Woods

Woods is an experimental architect and artist. The majority of his explorations deal with the design of systems in crisis: the order of the existing being confronted by the order of the new -wiki
Also, There are some interesting entries on the LW blog including one called What Is Architecture?: Continuing the struggle to understand what architecture is helps keep everyone—especially the architects—more honest.-LB Blog. I like this. Here, you could easily replace architecture with all things specifically .
I started thinking about him last night after I revisited Aeon Flux (definitely displays a system in crisis.) Do you remember when MTV used to run this show on theLiquid TV block!?