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From: Matthew Baldwin <mbaldwn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Future-Architecture/Environ-modelling
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>
In response to:
> >
> > I am an architect, and I agree that architects should accept their professio
n
> > as dealing with the condition of constructing buildings. If they are
> > interested in other endeavors let them enter the realms of virtual design,
> > philosophy, etc. where they are safely removed from adversely affecting
> > our physical world.
> > Stop thinking, start building should be the architects' motto of the 21st
> > Century.
> > Brent Ryan
> > Columbia University
> >
>
> I believe we are entering a new reality, separating from the devolution of
> a dark-age of social irresponsibility. What we need now is serious virtual
> designing of whole urban environments, not by any single architect, or even
> by any single professional group. What is required is whole-community
> decision-making, where the elements of a proposal get systematically
> discussed in a round-table-community-focus - then the simulations begin,
> whether by virtual reality, or more simplistic preliminary overviews.
>
> Eventually, as each fresh level of round-table-focussing contributes to the
> design-process, community needs versus egoic drives will self-resolve, and
> the potential for urban nightmares which survive for decades will be a thing
> of the past. There is so much to be considered in the wholistic fish-eye
> overview, since no single perspective can hope to have the total perspective,
> to mentally construct what an entire community both currently needs and will
> continue to need after 10, 20, 50 years.
>
> The ideal is NOT to stop thinking, but to evolve into group-minds which do
> not conceive a project in isolation, but blend in a mental union (telepathy,
> osmosis, fusion, whatever we call it), until the group is ready to proceed
> to the building stage.
>
> Imagine living in a wholistic urban environment which was not egoic in
> design but co-evolved by the entire populace!
>
> The 21st Century offers the potential for unimaginable transformations of
> reality.
>
> Mel
> --
>
I MUST CONCUR WITH MEL !!!, the need has never been greater for
the evolution of architecture. Like planners, architects must realize
that their work affects people. Architects must not continue to hide behind
the notion that their work is uassailable because it is ART! Would the
archtiects please come down to the real world and join in the process of
building a better world. And please...stop assuming that urban design by
committee has to be disasterous. We are all members of the committee by
virtue of our citizenship, whether this is a committee as small as a
neighbourhood, or as large as an entire nation. Planners and architects
must become members of the committee - citizens!
-Matthew Baldwin (mbaldwn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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-s93000001-m.erskinerichmond-ccsd-200- writes:
>
In response to:
> >
> > I am an architect, and I agree that architects should accept their professio
n
> > as dealing with the condition of constructing buildings. If they are
> > interested in other endeavors let them enter the realms of virtual design,
> > philosophy, etc. where they are safely removed from adversely affecting
> > our physical world.
> > Stop thinking, start building should be the architects' motto of the 21st
> > Century.
> > Brent Ryan
> > Columbia University
> >
>
> I believe we are entering a new reality, separating from the devolution of
> a dark-age of social irresponsibility. What we need now is serious virtual
> designing of whole urban environments, not by any single architect, or even
> by any single professional group. What is required is whole-community
> decision-making, where the elements of a proposal get systematically
> discussed in a round-table-community-focus - then the simulations begin,
> whether by virtual reality, or more simplistic preliminary overviews.
>
> Eventually, as each fresh level of round-table-focussing contributes to the
> design-process, community needs versus egoic drives will self-resolve, and
> the potential for urban nightmares which survive for decades will be a thing
> of the past. There is so much to be considered in the wholistic fish-eye
> overview, since no single perspective can hope to have the total perspective,
> to mentally construct what an entire community both currently needs and will
> continue to need after 10, 20, 50 years.
>
> The ideal is NOT to stop thinking, but to evolve into group-minds which do
> not conceive a project in isolation, but blend in a mental union (telepathy,
> osmosis, fusion, whatever we call it), until the group is ready to proceed
> to the building stage.
>
> Imagine living in a wholistic urban environment which was not egoic in
> design but co-evolved by the entire populace!
>
> The 21st Century offers the potential for unimaginable transformations of
> reality.
>
> Mel
> --
>
I MUST CONCUR WITH MEL !!!, the need has never been greater for
the evolution of architecture. Like planners, architects must realize
that their work affects people. Architects must not continue to hide behind
the notion that their work is uassailable because it is ART! Would the
archtiects please come down to the real world and join in the process of
building a better world. And please...stop assuming that urban design by
committee has to be disasterous. We are all members of the committee by
virtue of our citizenship, whether this is a committee as small as a
neighbourhood, or as large as an entire nation. Planners and architects
must become members of the committee - citizens!
-Matthew Baldwin (mbaldwn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)