Angelil suggest that modern method of teaching starts at an origin and moves towards a higher point in a very linear, dictated fashion. He feels that this method of learning creates disciplinary boundaries limits the full extent of knowledge people can have. He proposes an idea whereby teaching occurs from outside the discipline at study and knowledge moves inwards towards the circle, instead of linearly outward. This allows for teaching and learning to "constitute acts of trangression, interrogation from both within and without". The end result of this method being that architects are learning and working out of their comfort zone in an area where there is no "secure basis in terms of form and content". Allowing them the opportunity to experiment and develop ideas not possible in a linear learning pattern.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Inchoate: An Experiment in Architectural Education
Architecture has been dominated by three concepts: visual appearance (stylistic, typological, spatial), authorship (a creator architect, a personal signature), and primacy of the object (the existence of the object in pristine condition). Marc Angelil seeks to take the concept of inchoate and utilize that as a method of designing.
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I didn’t think of the article this way but it is very interesting to me. I like the idea of starting outside and moving inward. This could mean that architects need a wide range of knowledge in order to be successful at their specific task.
ReplyDeleteI like this idea as well. It sort of seems like the difference between a timeline and a bubble diagram that starts with architecture in the middle and could potentially move off in any or multiple directions, in not only a linear or random fashion, but also be interpreted any number of ways, simply based on personal perception.
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