Posted by  ZERO on December 09, 2001 at 12:32:25:

In Reply to:  Re: material intuition in architecture posted by Jacques Pochoy on December 09, 2001 at 11:09:33:

It is the human - in this case architect - who creates, not the tools he uses. And creating means not generating ideas, but in making the choices between those ideas. Even when we can look at holograms of our buildings-to-be, or put on VR helmets and "explore" them, it is still us who are making the choices. (Unless, of course, we delegate that to a machine?) CAD is fun, and if the increasingly sophisticated
tools we can use to graphically articulate our ideas also, in the making, help us to generate new ideas, that's fine. It would not be the first time in creating the created that fortuitous incidents became part of the process - and the final result.

A bigger danger than not being aware of the technological revolution and its effect on architects and on the society the architect is designing for would be to accord it one chip's importance more than
it is really worth. Or what we want it to be worth. Flick through the Great Buildings next door - how could they have been improved if the architects had been on line?

VR? Pen on a napkin? Pencil on paper? Stick in the sand? What matters is what's in the architect - or designer's head. Thousands
of years of human civilisation and creation inheritance is still all we really, really need.

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