EXP3: Article Mashup Theory

Architects discuss the objectives, requirements and budget of a building, creating works of public good: what any one person or institution builds and others must live with. Architects and students studying architecture look to the future and they understand architecture as a dynamic system of relationships, aiming to articulate a vision that blurs distinctions between digital and physical, natural and artificial, simulated and observable. Architecture occupies a peculiar place in society and one can feel overwhelmed by the richness and complexity of such architectural works, as an architect’s skill and aptitude for critiquing and analysing architecture transforms the process of idea articulation into an art unlike any other forms of artwork- architecture that envelops us. In a rapidly changing world with many possible edge-of-control projects there is a need for new technologies and advancements for architectural-computing students, an emerging branch of architecture outside of architecture schools. They have become particularly important for Architecture as technologies that help students produce three-dimensional models have replaced traditional drafting paper and pencil. Such new technology in turn attracts a diverse crowd of practitioners, academics and students from a broad range of backgrounds into the field of architecture.  Good analytical, communication, creative, critical-thinking, organisational, technical, and visualisation skills are highly valued in architecture schools, and are strived for as architecture’s ability to shape tomorrow’s places is more significant than its role in producing buildings. Articulating a future vision and program for architecture and urban design within architecture and architectural schools creates new potentials in the field not yet discovered.

Blue Text:
Muli, T. 12th May 2013. “For the love of buildings”
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000083459&story_title=for-the-love-of-buildings
(Accessed 13/5/13)

Red Text:

Goldhagen, S.H. 12^th January, 2013. “Architecture is more than just buildings”

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/art/111828/architecture-more-just-buildings-in-remembrance-public-minded-critic#

(accessed 13/5/13)

Green Text:

Roudavski, S. 27^th November 2012. “The future of architectural education”

http://www.archdaily.com/298112/frontier-learning-the-future-of-architectural-education-stanislav-roudavski/

(Accessed 14/5/13)