3.01 -- Week 9 


18 One Point Perspective Sketches 

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Valley Images from home country

Happy Valley, HK

Overlooking view of New Territories, Shatin

Valley adjacent to Shing Mun River, Shatin

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Inspired environment in CryEngine3

Draft#1

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News Article Mashup




How should the architects of tomorrow learn?  In an age of frontier technologies and open-source prototyping, the future is about rethinking the discipline as a dynamic system of relationships.  Architecture is always about combining a lot of knowledge…knowledge of technology, economy, aesthetics and social issues. However, at the end of the day, a consumption-driven society will always long for something new. Hence it is possible that, by mixing architecture, engineering, product design and interaction, it expects fluency in methodologies from future designers.  The possibilities became even more dizzying with the introduction of new materials and building technologies. As the role of engineering became ever more prestigious, a seductive idea arose: perhaps architectural excellence could be reduced to function. These relationships blur the distinctions between digital and physical, natural and artificial, simulated and observable in the wild. Such an interpretation calls for broader collaborations and a commitment to explorations outside established “comfort zones,” developing a stronger understanding of the possibilities of the digital construction and design process.  In the face of daunting challenges, these projects had to advance well beyond contemporary practices and are now seen as precursors – respectively – to form-finding approaches, computational structural analysis and integrated designing of complex geometries.  It seems likely that in the future, increasing proportions of situated social life will be sustained by digital technologies that have been designed and produced outside of architecture, and this is because within architecture, engineering design and planning, there are always several simultaneous realities. This is where one has to quote William Gibson: “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” 



Sources: 


"A Crash Course on Modern Architecture (Part 1)." 07 May 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 13 May 2013.   <http://www.archdaily.com/366888> 

Holt, Jim, “Dream Houses” The Architecture of Happiness 10 December 2010. Print.

Stanislav Roudavski. “Frontier land: the future of architectural education”  

Architecture Australia, September 2012 (Issue 5).