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WhatTF is Architecture: A lecture by Alex Haw at Winchester College Studium, talking about his perception of what architecture is, giving examples from is practice's work (atmos studio).
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WhatTF is architecture?
Winchester College Studium
Alex Haw : atmos : 12.10.11
Alex Haw
ART
architecture defies
gravity
architecture is a
form of media
architecture
tells stories
architecture is
multidimensional
architecture might
not be a building
PEOPLE
architecture orders our environment
architecture constructs
social space
architecture means
sheltering strangers
architecture
relates us
architecture
is ergonomic
architecture
comforts us
architecture
ensnares us
architecture
augments us
John Constable
Cloud Study
1822 Oil on paper laid on board 12 x 19 1/4 in (30.5 x 49 cm) Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Rain, Steam and Speed
c. 1844 Oil on canvas 35 3/4 x 48 in. (90.8 x 121.9 cm) National Gallery, London
architecture
expresses us
architecture makes
music from sounds
architecture choreographs our interactions
architecture lends grace to our movements
architecture offers a moment
of immersive sensuality
architecture weaves
occupiable poetry
TECHNOLOGY
architecture generates
atmosphere
architecture creates
new climates
architecture creates
landscapes
architecture is
solar
PLACE
architecture choreographs
our relationship with nature
architecture rethinks
how we inhabit
so how should
WE BUILD?
equitably
publicly
connectively
collectively
imaginatively
invisibly
molecularly
technologically
computationally
digitally
parametrically
generatively
precisely
automatically
rapidly
economically
unprecedentedly
independently
experimentally
robotically
responsively
interactively
sensitively
intelligently
informationally
metabolically
heliotropically
climatically
ecologically
naturally
enduringly
harmoniously
holistically
humanly
meaningfully
American History
June 12 2005
Death is very likely
the single best invention of Life.
It is Life's change agent.
It clears out the old
to make way for the new.
Stay Hungry
Stay Foolish
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