Architecture as Verb and the Ethics of Making

Alberto Pérez-Gómez ()
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Alberto Pérez-Gómez: McGill University, School of Architecture

Chapter Chapter 92 in Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future, 2015, pp 661-673 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Advocates of computer generated processes in architecture, all based on algorithmic languages, usually claim that these applications allow designers to bypass the questions of cultural specificity and ground design in scientific or natural principles, finally “closing the distance” between theory and practice. This is the right concern, but built upon wrong assumptions. The artistic imagination can be indeed dangerous and abused. Respect for the other and political correctness, however, are not assured by instrumental processes. Our imaginative faculty allows us to identify with the other, entailing a real, yet opaque connection between words and deeds. Two examples, the theories of Luca Pacioli and Le Corbusier, illustrate this relationship. My aim is to draw a map of the vicissitudes of architecture as verb during the modernization of Europe, issuing not from a simplistic Platonic application, but from a realization of the affinity of architecture with Aristotle’s middle sciences.

Keywords: Architectural Production; Aesthetic Object; Regular Body; Imaginative Faculty; Instrumental Process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00143-2_45

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