What is Architecture, And Where Is The Profession Going? I do not pretend to know the answer to these questions, but I do have my opinions and thoughts. I may just be a Graduate Student of Architecture, but I am an Architect to the core, an Architect with big ideas and hope for our future.
The best advice I can give any architecture student is this, treat every project like it’s going to get built, but realize that it never will.
No one will care about the project once the class over. the most you will get from your projects in school are nice portfolio pictures. That’s it, in the architecture profession you learn the basics of structure and develop you're conceptual development skills in school, but learn most of what you need for the rest of your professional career during internships. We’ve all seen, our fellow archies burning out, being hospitalized, falling apart under immense pressure. We allow our physical and mental health fall apart, and our personal lives fade to non-existence.
As architects we need to be better than everyone else, but we cannot forget about our most basic needs.
This article actually argues against this notion, that architecture is in fact entering a golden age. Archizer is both wrong and right.
Architecture is in crisis, but when we get through this crisis, we WILL enter a golden age....so what do I mean by this, or am I losing my mind?
The architect, as a profession, IS in a crisis. You can have ten “architects” in a room but they ll all have different educations, licencing, and opinions of architecture. Today there is no true definition of an architect, and we as architect are slowly losing our control of projects as they are given to engineers, construction managers, and developers. We are slowly becoming designers, the creators of aesthetics, instead of being the masters of space and planning that we are supposed to be.
Architecture as a facet of society, is entering a golden age. What is interesting about this article is when it talks about social media and architecture. Long gone are the days that architects, and the public rely on the shadowy collective of “critics” to determine if a building is good or bad. According to critics, we should all design buildings like Corbuseir or Meis. Lets face, they both have very shitty buildings. Yes I said it, Le Corbusier designed shitty buildings, he was a pompous, self-centered control freak who disregarded everything but his own intentions for a project. But no more.
Now we have collectives of individuals, who work together, to create architecture that benefits the public. The Public is something new to be considered in architecture, something that has undoubtedly become prevalent thanks to social media. One can not look at news about architecture and see something about crowd funded projects.
And so now I arrive to my point, the crisis is that architects no longer know what defines them or their projects, but once we re-define ourselves and our work we will enter a new golden age. But we can not fall prey to the public, but we also must cater to it. It is the public which will be the key to this golden age or architecture. But it is also the public that could cause architecture to become corrupted and fall into a dark age. A common trend which I have seen is Flashy Architecture, architecture that throws everything the architecture discipline stands for to the wayside and disguises its self as a cool organic form that looks cool and futuristic. This is what the public thinks it wants, but what the public really wants are beautiful pieces of architecture that amazes them and enhances their lives, that redefines what it is to use a building. The architect must become both a conduit for the public's opinion but also a limiting factor to give the public, not what it thinks it wants, but what it needs; Good, Reliable, and Beautiful Architecture.
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If there is one thing in this world I absolutely despise, it's incompetence. Especially when it comes from a professor at a university that costs an arm and a leg. Professors are supposed to be competent, that's what they're paid for. If they are incompetent then they pass that down to their class.
Let me tell you one thing. In this world we are living in, 98% of everything that is built and designed today is pure shit. There’s no sense of design, no respect for humanity or for anything else. They are damn buildings and that’s it.
This to me sums up the Millennial Spirit. This valley is arguably the birthplace of all the technology that redefines life in the new Millennium, it is only fitting that it should be re-designed to reconcile the forces of Technology and Ecology. To me what is important to focus on is the community interaction planning that is going on as well as a heavy focus on nature. This could be a rough template of what future suburban communities could be like. The buildings themselves to me look like amorphous blobs, most likely because of their flexible program, but what is important here is the planning and philosophy that drives this project.
So why have I taken the name, the millennial architect? Well to put it simply, I am apart of the Millennial Generation. Now since we're all architects, we all know a simple answer is never good enough.
The real reason I have taken this name, besides sounding epic, is because of what being a Millennial stands for. The notation of Millennial was given to us because we were born around the coming of the new millennium. Why is this important? Because in the millennium that preceded us; we fought two world spanning wars, built weapons that can destroy our only planet multiple times over, we have caused ecological disasters, continually found ways to discriminate and villianize ourselves, hated one another instead of loving one another, and finally bringing into question if we humans, have lost our humanity.
We are the first ones who are able to look back to the first year of he common era, and see a full 1000 years of history with out our influence. Responsibility of leading the world into a new millennium will fall to us in a few decades, we must not repeat a thousand years worth of mistakes.
So how on god's good earth does this relate to architecture? Because the architecture profession now finds itself in uncharted waters, we find ourselves in a time when humanity and beauty falls by the wayside to economy and efficiency. While I have ideas and ways to change the world, I am only an architect. That is my training, that is my destiny; at least for now. I will leave other aspects of the worlds to be changed by my fellow Millennials.
Looks like I've finally gotten around to setting this thing up. I'm very excited to begin working on this, I'm starting on the familiar Tumbler but I hope to branch this project out to other forms of media. I'll try to post a couple of times each week but we'll see how long that lasts.
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