Saturday, 7 March 2015

WEEK ONE TUTORIAL

1.       Why it is that architecture and technology have this relationship?
  • Push the boundaries with emerging technologies
  • Concrete and steel a revolutionary occurrence in Corbusier’s world
  • Relationship intertwined with each other
  • Relationship of advancement, more complex designs are created

2.       Why has the relationship been so pressing against modern times?
  • Improved “human welfare”
  • If we continue to follow traditional ways, methods and theories won’t keep up with modern times
  • Old architectural styles and methods won’t be able to cope or keep up with current techniques or technologies advancing architectural design
  • Computational design allows for the constraints of old architecture to be removed

3.       Brief the text, do you agree/disagree?
  • Le Corbusier’s argument isn’t clear as to whether he is encouraging revolution or not
  • Is he saying that Computational ways, new technology is revolution? Or is it just evolution of the old?
  • Addresses the breakdown of family structure due to a technology – industrial revolution
  • A sense of demoralization
  • Loss of generational skill traditions

4.       When does technology become cultural? What causes these changes?
  • Changes in technology encourages people to acquire or develop a desire for greater structures
  • Technology simplifies the process
  • Evolution to the technology
  • Egalitianrism
  • The study of types = building, software, etc.

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