29
JAN
2018
EVERYTHING
BE ARCHITECTED
ACTUALLY
NEEDS TO
SI658 INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
Part 1: Lecture
Part 2: Architecture Parade (w/ Paul Dannels AIA)
Part 3: Reconvene, Reflect
Enhances: �Information carrying
capacity of the built environment
Reverses: �into Excel
Retrieves: �Spatial primitives
Obsolesces: �High Priests
When distinctions and differentiations are subordinated �to rote orderliness, with meaningless adjacencies��SIMPLIFIES, HOMOGENIZES
Shifts focus from expert mediation between users and products to organizing participation around performances
DISINTERMEDIATES, DEMOCRATIZES
The deep structure of space is co-valent with whatever contextual meanings are instantiated on the basis of an information architecture.��ACTIVATES EMBODIMENT, LENGTHENS OUR “NOW”
Utilizes relationships in space and time to encode / decode information, with a focus on comparison, relative situatedness (as opposed to “things themselves”)��CLARIFIES, COMPLEXIFIES
(just the first 4 minutes of this video)
VISCERAL UNDERSTANDING
Architecture, in combining form and space into a single essence, not only facilitates purpose but communicates meaning. �The art of architecture makes our �existence not only visible �but meaningful.
Francis D. K. Ching�Architecture: Form, Space and Order �(1979)
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WHAT IS �THE VERB OF ARCHITECTURE?
Molly Wright Steenson�Architectural Intelligence �(2017)
The way designers and programmers use the term speaks to the idea of what an architect does, to the complexity of their work, and to the expertise that architects claim. In effect, they architect architectures.”
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22
JAN
2016
ARCHITECTS
STEENSON
WRIGHT
MOLLY
DON’T SAY
ARCHITECTED”
“
‘Architecting’ is not a nice word. If it’s onomatopoeic it suggests a rugged, jagged back-and-forth that’s not always helpful in a discipline driven by interrogating difference and asking the difficult question. The hardening of the ‘ch’ sound has a little brutality to it. I don’t like it as a word. But I struggle to find another that I like more to describe what I do.
ARCHITECTURE
IS NOT THE SAME THING
AS DESIGN
1972
EAMES
CHARLES
PROBLEM?”
SOLVE A
& RAY
DOES IT
“
BETTER
1982
C.
OF FUNCTION.”
IS PRIOR
OF SPACE
THE ORDER
TO THE ISSUE
ALEXANDER
“
GOOD
I’m nothing. And I’m beautiful as shit. �I am amazing. And I’m nothing. �Don’t plant grass on me! �No trees! No grass!
Richard Saul Wurman�UnderstandingUnderstanding�(2017)
1968
SHAPE
KUBRICK
STANLEY
US
IN SPACE
SHAPES
Architecture is necessarily complex and contradictory in its very inclusion of the traditional Vitruvian elements of commodity, firmness and delight.”
Robert Venturi�Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture�(1966)
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1972
DOING
KAHN
LOUIS
WONDER?”
“
AM I
HOW
The architectural space is one where the structure is apparent in the space itself. �
A long span is a great effort that should not be dissipated by division within it. The art of architecture has wonderful examples of spaces within spaces, but without �deception.
Louis Kahn
1974
MONEO
HALL
RAFAEL
TOWN
1979
RELATIONSHIPS
TO OTHER
“
CONSISTS IN ITS
THE MEANING
OF ANY OBJECT
OBJECTS”
NORBERG-
SCHULZ
C.
1962
IN THEIR
BRAQUE
GEORGES
RELATIONSHIPS”
“
I BELIEVE ONLY
I DO NOT
BELIEVE IN THINGS
“..your restaurant is among the latest manifestations of the ‘eating place’ we’ve been building for centuries.” ��- Jorge Arango
2011
FOR
RESMINI
ANDREA
CINEMA”
LANGUAGE
AND SEMANTIC
A COMMON,
SHARED VISUAL
HAVE
WE
“
The forms of buildings have evolved over time to suit our needs. However, information environments are still new. Patterns for their effective use are only now starting to evolve.
Jorge Arango�Living In Information�(2018)
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AGREEMENT
Our understanding of what we can do in an environment is sparked by our perception of the range of actions that are afforded by the elements in the environment, whether they be inert objects or other creatures.
Jorge Arango�Living In Information�(2018)
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..derived from the Latin for modulus - an architectural term for ‘to measure.’ Models serve as the measure �of an idea.
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Molly Wright Steenson�Architectural Intelligence �(2017)
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Architecture Parade with Paul Dannels AIA