the last weekend of freedom...
The last year of graduate school begins in three days. I am sure the intensity levels will be much higher in previous years, but now that I am out of core classes the direction of my work and research will be much more self driven. This fall quarter I am hoping to be able to focus on smaller scales of detail and perfect the transition between digitally designed work and fabrication. I enjoyed the taste of fabrication which I experienced during the Superglow project, but the experience was lacking in many respects.
Last year's technology seminar was an exercise in futility. Sure, we learned to take a design from the computer screen to the storefront, but the methods to accomplish this were outdated, inefficient, and highly wasteful to non-renewable resources. The money that was spent on plastics, foam, lights and finishes would be enough to build a small house in many parts of this country.
The 3-axis CNC mill is yesterday's toy, and the process of vacuum forming plastic as we know it, came into use in the 1920's. I'm tired of hearing about "cutting edge" CNC fabrication; I am ready to experiment with new techniques and technologies. For example, when are architects going to stop describing their work through biological analogies, and instead actually learn to "grow" a building, if not literally in a biological sense, shouldn't we at least be focusing more energy on efficient means of design, construction and usage? Why do we devote so much effort to writing and speaking about the design of architecture, and so little on the physical ramifications of real design? Why was the full size 3d printer developed by a civil engineer and not an architect? Perhaps architectural education needs to focus less on learning the latest software package, and instead research physics and the biological sciences. Perhaps we need to pull our heads up from the computer screen and look around at the rest of the world. Perhaps innovation doesn't come from talking, but from doing.
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Or maybe not. At any rate, I feel there is still much to be learned, and I am hoping to find some answers this year. This marks the culmination of many years of schooling and I hope to be able to pull together some meaningful research and cap my education off with an innovative project.
I'll leave you with an image from a recent trip to San Fransisco:
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St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral, by Pier Luigi Nervi 1971
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