![]() ![]() ![]() In contemporary data-driven society, forces of capital increasingly seek risk-averse decision making through data and digital calculation, aligned to this the discourse around design intelligence in architecture has begun to embrace the role of data and the technical non-human as much as the human. In brief, this paper will examine the progression of architects’ approach to design from Euclidean geometry to scripts and codes. The aim of this paper is to scrutinise the details of this transformation and to discuss the hypothetic futuristic role of architects, no more as intellectual craftsmen (painters, sculptors, master-masons), but as innovative digital programmers, IT engineers and software script-writers. By examining the characteristics of these periods, it becomes quite clear that a shift from a mechanical or manual approach to informational and digital synthesis occurred in the architectural profession. For example, the techniques adopted by artists/architects like Michelangelo and Palladio differ significantly from those used by Novak and Spuybroek, albeit the result is somewhat a happy and positive evolution in design terms! In between these two extremes reside the architectural formal inventions of Mendelsohn and Gaudi. On the other hand, this intellectual stable situation in the architectural field cannot neglect the artistic input which certain individuals brought to the architectural world in those periods. ![]() If one sets aside the emergence of new building typologies, architectural “styles”, the use of new materials like steel and reinforced concrete, and the changes in built form which these materials brought up, one notices that the critical thinking procedure is still very similar. If the final product of an eighteenth century architectural thought is physically embodied in, for example, an Italian palazzo, a quite similar procedure is still employed two hundred years later in the design of a Modernist housing scheme. If in the analysis of the relatively recent history and theoretical development of architecture one had to exclude the last twenty-five years, one would be immediately struck by a “partial” lack of a distinct and evident evolution of new design methodologies. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |