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For the last few years the social/political side of architecture and the formal side of architecture have been split within discourse into two operational modes: crunchy "hands-on" and slick "computer-on". These fronts are not oppositional.
The truth is that in our largely networked world, socially minded design is not restricted to the honesty of material culture, but is an active participant in a pervasive, democratic digital realm. It is not more complicated than that, but also not easier than that.
In my interview with Bruce Mau — an outsider, importantly — he argues that architects “spent so much time policing the fence that you forgot to open the door.” In other words, we constructed such an exclusive professional fortress of accreditation, institutes, awards and even our own discourse, that we lost touch with other people and adjacent disciplines and what we could learn from them.
From an interview with Rory Hyde, author of Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture, on Failed Architecture.
Já aqui tínhamos anunciado o livro Future Practice , uma revisão do que será o futuro da arquitectura, vista por profissionais de várias áreas. Essencialmente há uma proposta de quebra de paradigma e uma reflexão que procura modelos mais participados e integrados no planeamento; não só por outro tipo de profissionais, mas com a a participação activa de quem usa e vive a cidade.
Num dos capítulos, Wouter Vanstiphout reflecte sobre a cidade modernista no realojamento e comprova uma correlação de 100% entre essa arquitectura e os motins dos suburbios de Paris.
Ei-lo aqui outra vez com "Damn the master´s plans"
What I would argue for, is that our move away from building is not a diversion from architectural practice, it's not an excursion away from the core of what we do — it's just that we've defined the core of what we do in a particular way. I believe what we do is architecture, I believe what we do should be at the core of the profession. That is what the think-tank is about. It's not to say that these experimental forms of practice in some way down the line inform a more traditional form of practice; that would be privileging the physical building as the central point of what architects do, which I don't think is right anymore.
For us I don't see a move back into real building as it's been defined; that is a regression. We need to be much more vocal about staking a claim for these new positions, these new modes of operating as being part of the mainstream. It's fun to be a young designer talking about alternative forms of practice, but at some point I need to buy a house, I need to have kids, I need to put them through school. I don't want us to remain on the fringes.
"The Educator of excess | Liam Young/Unknown Fields in conversation with Rory Hyde" in Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture | Rory Hyde | Routledge | 2012
I am currently reading this book and sharing some glimpse inside it. A series of conversations Rory Hyde had with practitioners from architecture, to urban activism, to explore new practices in this discipline.