Saturday, September 8, 2012

WEEK SEVEN SELECTED READING: ARCHITECTURE IS A DEVICE



Mvrdv., 2005. KM3: Excursions on Capacities. Barcelona: Actar. pp36-45

The design competition for Ground Zero have so many architects from such different background- former enemies, so to speak- tried to work on the same topics

Blob and data designers merged with rationalist and super-modernists

The rapid communication through international publications, the possibilities if collaborating with local architects abroad, the speed of technology

A slow profession paradoxically encourage convergence rather than differation

The coming era will be critical for the classically artistic role of architecture

Questioning the role of architecture and architects

Architectural criticism should once again become a more important teammate

Judging intentions according to their purpose, roles and effectiveness

The ambition for a wider scale requires a combination of idealism and pragmatism

Products can be extremely varied and rich: they can range from beautiful objects that bring perspectives and calm to daily life

Architecture and urbanism can become devices for developments

A more ambitious terrain clearly demands a more research like approach within architectural practice

History has been a series of methods to understand the world

The potential of the virtual domain to grasp complexity, because of the potential to work everywhere, and because of the speed of the reproduction of ideas, architecture I now able to move into the development of devices that can combine top-down, large-scale issues with bottom up, individualized input

Architecture will become a medium again

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