92 EAAE no 35 Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design: Advances in Technology and Changes in Pedagogy
Sean Hanna, London, United Kingdom
Does anyone have a ready answer to that?
Darren Dean, Kingston, United Kingdom
Are you asking for a paradigm?
Antonino Saggio, Rome, Italy
No, I will leave it to you.
Urs Hirschberg, Graz, Austria
I am not going to try to give a direct answer to that, but I think one can have a strategy
in relation to it. I briefly presented the initiative at my school about these research labs,
and I do think that this is something that has to change in architecture, that we have to
take our own field into our hands in a different way by researching it more. Something
that is actually happening in practice is that you have cross-disciplinary collaboration
with specialists in energy simulation, structures, and so forth. You have that happen-
ing in big international projects, but it is not really happening in architecture schools
because they are not equipped to really come up with these means in order to run
these things as part of a design process. So I think that bringing these means in and
making them part of the normal design experience of architects is something that we
need to see to, something that needs to come about in architecture schools. That is the
background to this initiative, which I think is really important; and the new notion of
space will, I think, in a sense come as a by-product of that. The other important thing
that Kas Oosterhuis and his work embody very clearly is this shift towards non-standard
architecture, as we move from mass production to mass customisation. I think this is
tremendously important and something that needs to be addressed in the schools,
and we have to get people thinking in those terms; and then maybe a new concept of
space will emerge from that. But actually, it is a question of making an effort to really
address that in teaching.
Carmella Jacoby-Volk, Rishon LeZion, Israel
I think space somehow got lost and that the question is really about trying to find space
again. I think that asking the question is new in this way. Because when space got lost it
seemed that nobody cared, and now people do care, people care about people that live
in these spaces and use these spaces; and I think that what I was trying to emphasise is
the role of the programme in the space and that finding the space is finding the space
through the programme; that is, the programme of the other and the programme of the
identity and the performativity and often the programme of the performance. I think
that this is the way to find the space again.
Rivka Oxman, Haifa, Israel
The word design is used as a verb, designing, and as a noun, design. We heard a lot today
about designing – design process, technology, etc. – with reflections on philosophy,
on media, on film, and much more. My question is whether it is our responsibility, as
people who are responsible for our domain, architecture, to create a new knowledge
in architecture and to speak from the knowledge we create or understand or reflect.