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International Journal of Architecture and Planning
Economic Times, 2020
The built environment must progress in step with progress of society. It is therefore the task of the avant-garde segment of the academic discipline and profession of architecture to theorize and explore how best to guide the development of the built environment in ways that are congenial to the opportunities and challenges of societal development at the frontier of progress.
Proceedings of ACADIA 1995, pp.405-423, 1995
As both the skepticism and ‘hype’ surrounding electronic environments vanish under the weight of ever increasing power, knowledge, and use of information technologies, the architectural profession must prepare for significant expansion of its professional services. To address the issue, this paper offers a survey of the professional services architects and designers do and may provide in digital space, and who the potential clients are. The survey was conducted by interviews with software developers, gaming companies, programmers, investigators, practicing architects, faculty, etc. It also included reviews of actual software products and literary research of conference proceedings, journals, books and newspapers (i.e. articles, classified ads, etc.). The actual and potential markets include gaming and entertainment developments, art installations, educational applications, and research. These markets provide architects the opportunity to participate in the design of 3D gaming environments, educational software, architecture for public experience and entertainment, data representation, cyberspace and virtual reality studies, and other digital services which will be required for this new world. We will demonstrate that although the rapidly growing digital market may be seen by some to be non-architectural and thus irrelevant to our profession, it actually represents great opportunities for growth and development. Digital environments will not replace the built environment as a major architectural market, but they will significantly complement it, thus strengthening the entire architectural profession.
International Journal of Architecture, Arts and Applications, 2022
The architectural profession operates in an extremely competitive environment today-and more and more evidence arises showing it cannot cope. The consequence is socioeconomic problems for architects, the devastation of the branch, and substandard performance that affects the protected interests of individuals and the public interest, including urgent goals of sustainable development efforts. Obviously, any of the consequences is worth to eliminate; to turn the attention to the problems and contribute to launching the needed changes is the objective of the paper. Putting the realia of topic area into the industrialization´s theory framework, the paper puts the hypothesis that a persistence of the architectural profession in preindustrial, medieval-guild paradigm is the cause. Further, the explanations of particular, today-frequented cases of the counterproductivity and, in today's social and economic conditions, the unsustainability of the processes and acts by which the profession is practiced that are based on Toynbee's theory discuss, test, and verify the hypothesis. Virtual public space and, in particular, virtual reality environments and technologies are bringing the architectural profession to the brink of a revolution. It promises to optimize the processes of architectural design and the planning of the building that makes architecture material and to upgrade the level of quality of the results achieved. Is the profession ready for such a revolution; is it ripe for it? Is it coping with the current situation, which is different from the conditions and environment in which the architect was the sovereign creator of the summum templum architecturae? Can it use the technological revolution to overcome the long-standing problems and establish a new professional paradigm that renders necessary for the regeneration of the profession, for its performance in terms of securing the protected interests of individuals and the public interest, and for promoting the sustainability of life on Earth? Finally, the paper proposes a positive conclusion-conditioned by industrializing the profession at last; as the prerequisite and the path, the paper suggests mastering the virtual reality environments by the architectural profession and utilization of its technologogies.
International journal of architecture and planning, 2022
TRP21, 2016
What is contemporary architecture? Although it seems to be a simple question, we will soon discover with some discouragement how ambitious and complicated it can be to find an appropriate answer to this question. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the contemporary word is defined as to " living at, happening at or belonging to the same period "[2]. In the specific field of design, contemporary architecture implies a chronological question. In its essence refers to architecture product of its time, and which defines its own topicality. Conceptually, contemporary architecture rejects those historical styles of the past, replacing them with an innovative and different proposal from what existed so far. For the architects Beatriz Villanueva Cajide and Francisco Javier Casas Cobo, contemporary architecture, "... historiographically, does not exist, except in the absolute present, understanding as such the moment lived and, maybe, ten or twenty years ago, until the moment when the historiography frames it like history and ceases to be contemporary "[3]. In the contemporary, we rethink architecture as "... to check that aspects have lost validity, which have been renewed and what [new] concepts ... have appeared" [4]. It is in this sense that the idea of contemporary architecture acquires greater relevance: as a motor of change, it establishes new theoretical positions between man and his architectural production. In the beginning of this new century, we find ourselves living a particularly sensitive historical moment. For Josep María Montaner, we are able to "... have a certain perspective to interpret the evolution of architecture ... and detect the most remarkable characteristics of the recent turn of the century" [5]. We are in the presence of a new way of understanding the architectural project, under a technological-digital perspective, where process and generation are tinged with a search for optimization and efficiency. Numerous sources produce and reproduce an unprecedented architecture, developed in an area of some formal forcefulness, where mathematical algorithms, digital biological systems and advanced structural systems try to detach from their heavy historical-eclecticist load. In an attempt to answer the initial question, this article proposes the study of six key concepts, six elements that help us understand and define precisely the characteristics of this new architecture.
Abstracts Collection: IFAU 2019 - Modernization and Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in Architecture, Urbanism, Cultural Heritage: IFAU- 3rd International Forum on Architecture and Urbanism At: Tirana, Albania, 2019
IFAU 2019-3rd International Forum on Architecture and Urbanism aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Architecture, Urbanism, Cultural Heritage within Modernization and Globalization trends of XXI century. The third edition is expanding the horizon by introducing a series of overlapping visions spanning the recently institutionalized Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion, now extended to the Balkan and SouthEast European region. The Forum will concentrate on Architecture, Urbanism, Cultural Heritage located in contexts and territories that reveal their tendencies to Modernization and Globalization. 3 rd INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM MODERNISATION AND GLOBALIZATION Global/local modernizations XXth Century modernism and the question of cultural heritage Phenomena of re-generation, revitalization, recycle, reuse Modernization/globalization of urban planning/design and landscapes Modern housing Modern designing and daily life / universal design Utilization of future technologies Sustainability on the era of modernization / globalization
International Conference Virtual City and Territory, 2019
There is an assumption that architecture can provide an evocative vision of an artificial environment using digitized and wireless communication technology. It is a ideal based on perception of virtual space, where distance is minimized through the continual process of breaking barriers in non-visible planes. It is the domain of the mind, in which the object becomes real by individual choice. It is conceived in a plane known as virtual space or cyber space. Marcos Novak describes it as “space created as habitat for our imagination”. What are the new tendencies in Architecture? These are unknown yet. There is an incursion in different areas, it is seen that the scope of architecture includes Transparency, mix media, layering, transarchitecture, and hypersurfaces. It is an expression of high-speed technology in the process of change, pointing to the new frontier of “Space”. My focus is toward the integration
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