Sunday, March 25, 2007
Contemporary Techniques in Architecture
Ali Rahim discusses about the potential of contemporary techniques as something that influences and transforms culture, society and politics. Technology plays an important role being in constant interaction with culture and transforming it by a process of feedback and evolution.
In architecture technology is the key in the contemporary processes because they allow for exploration of unlimited possibilities. Technology allows for new design techniques that influence “objects”. This objects have variations that are transmitted culturally modifying human behavior and technical performance by becoming memes.
The later is what Rahim calls “ actualization in architecture”.
I found the last page quite interesting when he starts applying everything that was mentioned above into a project, especially how the use of the computer software allowed for a more deep exploration of different forces that interact with the building and influence its final form.
Can it really work as nicely as it sounds? The interaction between landscape and building, open vs. enclosed space, materials and light. In my opinion it sounds too good to be true but nonetheless the article helped me get a better understanding of how this new technology and all the programs and concepts we are dealing with in the class can be applied in the design process.
In architecture technology is the key in the contemporary processes because they allow for exploration of unlimited possibilities. Technology allows for new design techniques that influence “objects”. This objects have variations that are transmitted culturally modifying human behavior and technical performance by becoming memes.
The later is what Rahim calls “ actualization in architecture”.
I found the last page quite interesting when he starts applying everything that was mentioned above into a project, especially how the use of the computer software allowed for a more deep exploration of different forces that interact with the building and influence its final form.
Can it really work as nicely as it sounds? The interaction between landscape and building, open vs. enclosed space, materials and light. In my opinion it sounds too good to be true but nonetheless the article helped me get a better understanding of how this new technology and all the programs and concepts we are dealing with in the class can be applied in the design process.
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