Posted by ZERO on December 09, 2001 at 03:37:00:In Reply to: Re: material intuition in architecture posted by Jacques Pochoy on December 09, 2001 at 02:08:41:
Indiana Jones' hacking may be made easier when the end product of the MIT AI Laboratory Design Research Group for design rationale capture hits the streets. You will appear even loonier to tell your students that - if they don't know already. They are far more likely to be in tune with the future needs of the design field, including architecture, than their tutors - present company excepted, of course:) Most educational change is slow because it is reactive and not proactive; the balance between the hands-on (your material intuition) and head-on (the theory)will depend on individual tutors or college courses, the latter probably not updating very often. The
ICT revolution has come (quickly) and we now adjust to its practice and its potential. Just as we adjusted in the Social Revolution which followed the Industrial one. Familiarity with the products of the computer age (what is Lara Croft but a massing model?) is a roots up thing, not top down, and college boards - or indeed, old professionals find that uncomfortable. It questions the body of knowledge to which they hold the key - most professions are the same.It is not just in the design process that computer technology is waiting at the door - it has infiltrated architecture already with
its ai systems, and the "smart" buildings it has produced are built in cities whose very nature and functions are metamorphosing into ...what? (I'm not getting into whether this is progress or not!
It's reality.) What relevances does this have for education of architects or designers? How far ahead do we look? Certainly, in the case of architecture, the shelf life of the buildings themselves.
And the architectural constants on a big and small scale? It would be interesting to debate what such a hierarchy might be.Postscript:
I was trawling through an adjacent forum and caught an old thread about web culture - deploring the rudeness of the young
in their postings on these forums which seemed a little relevant currently. Someone quoted A.E. Houseman:"What can I do, what can I write
Against the fall of night?"Dylan Thomas would have advised Mr. H thus:
"Do not go gentle into that Good Night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day.
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light".Keep the faith, Jacques - loony or not! :)))
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