Week 7 Reading

Practice vs Project – 1: Materials and Techniques

Materials in architecture considering materials as virtual elements as Allen Stan proposed material as a natural objective elements. Architects and engineers conciders materails as an importants core to sustainability “with the research on composite and smart materials and the tendency to solve more and more problems at the level of material design rather than structural design (Picon 2010, p.145).

As the revolution of technologies that is provided for us today, for designers and architects is now becoming much easier to communicate with the clients through the computer software that has the capability of producing realistic materials. With this in mind, it is displacing of physical experience and materiality of to how architecture design approach declare the actual experience of the built reality “computer plunge us into a fluid, eminently variable world that give a special intensity to some of our sensations and the decision they lead to” (Picon 2010, p.152).

On Allen approach to architectural “Practice vs Project”, He assume that there’s a big polarisation between theoretical practice which he argues that’s is discursive, What his trying to point out is that theory is textural and wringing but practice is physical and real. There’s some assumption that he made to why they apart, he also point out about the age of architecture, which is this perception of theory and when we think about something or write about something that is separated from practice. To my understanding what Allan tries to do is to bring them together and effectively point out that theory should come from practices, by meaning bringing material practice generating theory rather than theory being on its own (Allen 2009, pp. xi-xxiii).

Reference Lists

Allan, S 2009, ‘Introduction: Practices vs. Project’, Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation, pp. xi-xxiii.

Picon, A 2010, ‘A Different Materiality’ ‘Material by Design’, Digital Culture in Architecture: an Introduction for the Design Profession, pp.143-169.