archigram:a walking city [google images, accessed 29/07/2012]
Indeterminacy
Expendability/Prefab/Modular
Modern[ism]
Industrially designed architecture
Technological Transfer
Architecture is then like a 'still shot' , a momentary manifestation of the contextual ideas at that point in time
Forms held in suspension as if they would continue to unfold or move forward given the chance
Forms that alluded to their periphery and even beyond their boundaries
'endless architecture' or modular design?
What are the advantages of addition and extension? reconfiguration? dynamism?
I like the idea of Archigram's 'scene machine' where the user configures a continuously recomposing architecture. This idea is already being achieved through virtual technology and is not too much of a stretch to envision future buildings that can be physically reconfigured at the users whim or even inline with the users mood.
There's architecture and then there is thinking about architecture
I suspect that my thinking about architecture at this stage in my education has been focused on the physical present and near future with most concepts born out of site investigation. It seems imagination is a vital part of the architects toolbox and something that I need to develop in order to expand, enrich and provoke my architectural process.
order vs anarchy vs ordered chaos
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