Jeremy wrote in response to Jason:
>To clarify:
>The profession must evolve because times change. This is an argument about
>allowing the profession to grow and reach new possibilities.
In reality, the profession, on whole, is barely meeting existing
possibilities.
> Idle dreaming, I think not. This is about allowing world-wide instantaneous
>communication/ bold new building technology / new paths of learning and
>discovery (planning/engineering/fine arts/philosophy/sociology) to
>redefine the profession.
Yeah, yeah; you've said it before. All that pie in sky is easy from the
comfort of a heavily subsidized educational institution drawing board or
terminal, but when you get out in the field, on the site, or in the office,
you realize that:
1) The whole world is not Netscape-enhanced and doesn't really care to be.
2) You have to fight to get that fancy building technology past the code
enforcement officials.
3) All the study of philosophy in the world won't make that HVAC duct miss
that beam unless YOU knew where to put it. Or at least gave the
engineers enough room to find a place for it.
But you don't care about that, do you?
> This is about taking the profession off of the
>site, out of the office, away from the contractor and into the future.
Who's gonna make your buildings? Where will you put them?
>This about redefining the prerogatives and responsibilities of the
>architect to the point where it is incomparable to the notion of architect
>of today or yesterday.
Your comments suggest your notion of an architect is someone who sits in a
"studio", playing with paper and cardboard and big words. Oh, yeah. And
reading _The Fountainhead_ over and over and over...
Me? I wanna make buildings.
Now, I know someone's going to skewer me on my sig file, and say "how can I
speak of change being permanent yet write the above?" The difference is in
the context.
Mark Darrall, providing better living through Organic Design---one day.
4th Year B. Arch.
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
"Changes aren't permanent
But Change is..."
Neil Peart, _Tom Sawyer_
>To clarify:
>The profession must evolve because times change. This is an argument about
>allowing the profession to grow and reach new possibilities.
In reality, the profession, on whole, is barely meeting existing
possibilities.
> Idle dreaming, I think not. This is about allowing world-wide instantaneous
>communication/ bold new building technology / new paths of learning and
>discovery (planning/engineering/fine arts/philosophy/sociology) to
>redefine the profession.
Yeah, yeah; you've said it before. All that pie in sky is easy from the
comfort of a heavily subsidized educational institution drawing board or
terminal, but when you get out in the field, on the site, or in the office,
you realize that:
1) The whole world is not Netscape-enhanced and doesn't really care to be.
2) You have to fight to get that fancy building technology past the code
enforcement officials.
3) All the study of philosophy in the world won't make that HVAC duct miss
that beam unless YOU knew where to put it. Or at least gave the
engineers enough room to find a place for it.
But you don't care about that, do you?
> This is about taking the profession off of the
>site, out of the office, away from the contractor and into the future.
Who's gonna make your buildings? Where will you put them?
>This about redefining the prerogatives and responsibilities of the
>architect to the point where it is incomparable to the notion of architect
>of today or yesterday.
Your comments suggest your notion of an architect is someone who sits in a
"studio", playing with paper and cardboard and big words. Oh, yeah. And
reading _The Fountainhead_ over and over and over...
Me? I wanna make buildings.
Now, I know someone's going to skewer me on my sig file, and say "how can I
speak of change being permanent yet write the above?" The difference is in
the context.
Mark Darrall, providing better living through Organic Design---one day.
4th Year B. Arch.
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
"Changes aren't permanent
But Change is..."
Neil Peart, _Tom Sawyer_