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From: human at electronetwork.org (human being)
Date: Mon Jun 21 15:06:52 2004
Subject: [in-enaction] website: Council of Architecture
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It seems possible that some of the standing educational
problems may be similar across the globe, possibly due
to the migration of certain architectural belief systems--
maybe this is transformed at the local level and cultures,
such as unique issues, perspectives, contributions, ideas,
though issues of the profession sound similar to those that
John Young and others have written about in the past, in
terms of development and codes and licensing issues, and
also critiques from both students and professors of current
educational approaches, such as by Howard Ray Lawrence
and Michael Kaplan, which also seem to point towards what
Anand questions and calls for- which is a great potential of
the field, both in localized situations and across the globe in
how architectural questions and designs can exist in some
temporarily universal field for consideration by others. So,
this would be to consider that there may be a common origin
or even road-block/barrier to innovation in the field yet which
may share things globally and also have unique situations,
respective of certain contexts (which still may be linked).
The idea of basic and applied design has been a long time
approach advocated by Howard Ray Lawrence, founder of
the Design-List, and also inclusion of art and architecture
in teaching, this from a teacher who was innovative enough
to create an e-mail list more than a decade ago to foster this
in a place where others may find a common interest. Along
similar assumptions, the idea that 'basic and applied' skills
in architecture, whatever they may be, may lead to various
types of approach which could reconcile aspects of research
that exist in the field, as scholarship and not just as historical
analysis or theoretical dialogues but rather empirical review
of what is known, what the realm of architecture is, and what
it can be- and to allow for research of this, designing of this,
and developing this- in a structure that allows for open ideas
and questioning beyond the confines of a more pure formal
approach, based on traditional approaches that try to meld
in new technologies or thinking yet which are limited both
by these, and in turn limit the imaginations and possible
outcomes of what architecture can do, yet has yet to do.
If aspects of the realms of architecture could be clarified,
enough so, to escape the bonds of both text and images,
and taking into account that architectural aesthetics may
be equivalent in ways, in quality, to scientific visualization-
a realm important and worthy of study and innovation yet
without the science or content, the visuals may be void of
content needed to understand through architecture, ideas
or existence, whatever these larger questions may be that
are held in common, beyond specific buildings, yet made
into specific buildings. Also to question would be the realm
of legitimacy given to current institutions and licensing if
they are failing to provide open architectural education,
and those who live and breath architecture at the same
time existing outside traditional authority structures.
If able to reference the scale of collaboration, it would be
similar to that of Boullee whose buildings were of another
order, another approach in some other context. With the
Internet as a site for architectural research, design, and
development, it is possible to use the materials that exist
today, to build the foundations for this new architectural
educational context- which utilizes databases, tools such
as GPS, PDAs, Tablets, Cameras, Video, and mapping
and other tools such as GIS and sensors, and especially
of interest is simulations using large computing resources
for structural analysis, coding and planning, visualization,
and simulations- in addition to prototyping of the full range
of the architectural endeavor- such as entering into realms
of product and industrial design, clothing, manufacturing
of materials and processes, in addition to interdisciplinary
knowledge development- opening questions of space to
those who deal in the micro- and macro- realms, and to
have these be the teachers, not architects, but physicists
and astrophysicists, if about DNA or energy or aesthetics,
to tap into the full resources of a university environment
to bring these together in a format that opens up ideas,
instead of compartmentalizing and categorizing them
into reduced fragments that then become abstractions.
Networked databases, collaborative surveys and the
recording of architectural environments and typologies
of buildings and places and things that are dealt with
in material cultures, here and there, sometimes similar
sometimes different, would allow value to be spread
from the mono-logic of a fictional 'western discourse'
into an empirical awareness, with a modern plateau,
that may share a common interest in architecture as
understanding, and to research, design, and develop
what this is, in common yet particular interests, public
and private, local and global, though solid in what is
at issue, what needs to be dealt with that is now being
ignored, and to allow for more than one approach in a
given context, to enable freedoms of mind and action--
not limit, even disable these-- to improve the human lot.
Architecture needs to get real before it can get ideal,
and this may mean that those at the top of the profession
may have had their chance to lead, and this is where we
are today. And we need to be somewhere else, and what
that is, where that is, and how we get there is dependent
upon everyone working together who has that as a goal.
Those who have held back change are due no special
treatment, and if they are in with the transformation they
should be able to participate but not dictate, as theirs is
the burden of conceit which has created today's ruins.
[Brian Carroll]
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From: human at electronetwork.org (human being)
Date: Mon Jun 21 15:06:52 2004
Subject: [in-enaction] website: Council of Architecture
In-Reply-To: <001601c3b416$3b61ef20$1b84103d@ABAYTRQ1BY8GI4>
Message-ID: 70331EE4-2080-11D8-BB31-0003936C456C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It seems possible that some of the standing educational
problems may be similar across the globe, possibly due
to the migration of certain architectural belief systems--
maybe this is transformed at the local level and cultures,
such as unique issues, perspectives, contributions, ideas,
though issues of the profession sound similar to those that
John Young and others have written about in the past, in
terms of development and codes and licensing issues, and
also critiques from both students and professors of current
educational approaches, such as by Howard Ray Lawrence
and Michael Kaplan, which also seem to point towards what
Anand questions and calls for- which is a great potential of
the field, both in localized situations and across the globe in
how architectural questions and designs can exist in some
temporarily universal field for consideration by others. So,
this would be to consider that there may be a common origin
or even road-block/barrier to innovation in the field yet which
may share things globally and also have unique situations,
respective of certain contexts (which still may be linked).
The idea of basic and applied design has been a long time
approach advocated by Howard Ray Lawrence, founder of
the Design-List, and also inclusion of art and architecture
in teaching, this from a teacher who was innovative enough
to create an e-mail list more than a decade ago to foster this
in a place where others may find a common interest. Along
similar assumptions, the idea that 'basic and applied' skills
in architecture, whatever they may be, may lead to various
types of approach which could reconcile aspects of research
that exist in the field, as scholarship and not just as historical
analysis or theoretical dialogues but rather empirical review
of what is known, what the realm of architecture is, and what
it can be- and to allow for research of this, designing of this,
and developing this- in a structure that allows for open ideas
and questioning beyond the confines of a more pure formal
approach, based on traditional approaches that try to meld
in new technologies or thinking yet which are limited both
by these, and in turn limit the imaginations and possible
outcomes of what architecture can do, yet has yet to do.
If aspects of the realms of architecture could be clarified,
enough so, to escape the bonds of both text and images,
and taking into account that architectural aesthetics may
be equivalent in ways, in quality, to scientific visualization-
a realm important and worthy of study and innovation yet
without the science or content, the visuals may be void of
content needed to understand through architecture, ideas
or existence, whatever these larger questions may be that
are held in common, beyond specific buildings, yet made
into specific buildings. Also to question would be the realm
of legitimacy given to current institutions and licensing if
they are failing to provide open architectural education,
and those who live and breath architecture at the same
time existing outside traditional authority structures.
If able to reference the scale of collaboration, it would be
similar to that of Boullee whose buildings were of another
order, another approach in some other context. With the
Internet as a site for architectural research, design, and
development, it is possible to use the materials that exist
today, to build the foundations for this new architectural
educational context- which utilizes databases, tools such
as GPS, PDAs, Tablets, Cameras, Video, and mapping
and other tools such as GIS and sensors, and especially
of interest is simulations using large computing resources
for structural analysis, coding and planning, visualization,
and simulations- in addition to prototyping of the full range
of the architectural endeavor- such as entering into realms
of product and industrial design, clothing, manufacturing
of materials and processes, in addition to interdisciplinary
knowledge development- opening questions of space to
those who deal in the micro- and macro- realms, and to
have these be the teachers, not architects, but physicists
and astrophysicists, if about DNA or energy or aesthetics,
to tap into the full resources of a university environment
to bring these together in a format that opens up ideas,
instead of compartmentalizing and categorizing them
into reduced fragments that then become abstractions.
Networked databases, collaborative surveys and the
recording of architectural environments and typologies
of buildings and places and things that are dealt with
in material cultures, here and there, sometimes similar
sometimes different, would allow value to be spread
from the mono-logic of a fictional 'western discourse'
into an empirical awareness, with a modern plateau,
that may share a common interest in architecture as
understanding, and to research, design, and develop
what this is, in common yet particular interests, public
and private, local and global, though solid in what is
at issue, what needs to be dealt with that is now being
ignored, and to allow for more than one approach in a
given context, to enable freedoms of mind and action--
not limit, even disable these-- to improve the human lot.
Architecture needs to get real before it can get ideal,
and this may mean that those at the top of the profession
may have had their chance to lead, and this is where we
are today. And we need to be somewhere else, and what
that is, where that is, and how we get there is dependent
upon everyone working together who has that as a goal.
Those who have held back change are due no special
treatment, and if they are in with the transformation they
should be able to participate but not dictate, as theirs is
the burden of conceit which has created today's ruins.
[Brian Carroll]
--
The Design-L list for art and architecture, since 1992...
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