Abstract
Attempts to describe and define ‘the role of the architect’ or the notion of architecture ‘itself’, often inherit a displacement between the interests in processes and the interests in interpretations of, or preceptions for either the results as ‘good quality’ or for the practise as ‘good conduct’. They tend to produce rigid models of the design-process, sociologically reducing explanations or mere ethical judgements. (Lawson, Cuff, Lundequist, Effekt:42) With this blurred and blurring difference as a point of departure, the interest in the competencies and strategies performed in the processes gets difficult conditions. The quests for the essences of either ‘Architecture’ or ‘The Architect’ will inevitable show, that both architects and architectures are multiple and heterogeneous, and that the processes that stabilize them are messy an unpredictable.
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https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2007.028
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Lotz, K.(2007) 'Architectural gaits': Architectures as technologies and techniques., Nordes 2007: Design Inquiries, 27-30 May, University of Arts, Craft, and Design, Stockholm, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2007.028
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Attempts to describe and define ‘the role of the architect’ or the notion of architecture ‘itself’, often inherit a displacement between the interests in processes and the interests in interpretations of, or preceptions for either the results as ‘good quality’ or for the practise as ‘good conduct’. They tend to produce rigid models of the design-process, sociologically reducing explanations or mere ethical judgements. (Lawson, Cuff, Lundequist, Effekt:42) With this blurred and blurring difference as a point of departure, the interest in the competencies and strategies performed in the processes gets difficult conditions. The quests for the essences of either ‘Architecture’ or ‘The Architect’ will inevitable show, that both architects and architectures are multiple and heterogeneous, and that the processes that stabilize them are messy an unpredictable.