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The Practice of Architecture in a changing context. From What?. Masters and apprentices. Architects were viewed as experts and were expected to provide design solutions for (not with) their clients. Apprentices learned the system via direct training or “ateliers”. Frank Lloyd Wright. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Practice of Architecture in a changing context
From What?
• Masters and apprentices
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architects were viewed as experts and were expected to provide design solutions for (not with) their clients. Apprentices learned the system via direct training or “ateliers”
To What?
Design Charrette
Collaboration
Teams
From What?
• Drafting Rooms
To What?
• Workstations
MOMAMuseum of Modern ArtNY, NY
RTLK Dallas
From What?
• Individual client
SC Johnson Administration Bldg.
Edward J.Kaufman House
Frank Lloyd Wright
To What?
• Corporate and Public client
Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners in association with Jung Brannen Associates, Inc. , Parsons Brinkerhoff Construction Services, Inc. (Construction Management)
Boston Federal Courthouse 1998
From What?
• Building Designers
Fish Lamps
Frank O. Gehry
Guggenheim Bilbao
To What?
• Managers of multi-variable projects
“…in defining ourselves as building designers seems limited, …Why not bring in people from other disciplines according to the client’s needs…a management consultant to help the client decide whether a new building is needed, a real estate consultant to help identify potential sites, or an industrial psychologist to address …issues in the workplace…” Andrea Leers, Reflections on Architectural Practices in the Nineties”,, pg 40.
Terminal D
W Hotel Dallas
From What?
• Experience = Knowledge
Watler Netsch/SOMAir Force Academy Chapel
To What? Research = Knowledge
SHoP
Our research on the generation of space and form has led to the development of systems that can be configured to address and respond to variable influences of context. …the confluence of financial, physical, social, temporal, and legislative influences….
Texas Medical CenterHouston
From What?
• Regional Practice Becknell Wholesale
Driskill * Hill
To What? Global Practice
“…globalization is the process by which human activity in its different dimensions becomes selectively and asymmetrically organized in interactive networks of performance that function on a planetary scale in real time. “ Manuel Castells, Reflections on Architectural Practices in the Nineties”, pg. 198
Hong Kong Skyscrapers
From What?
Design Bid Build
To What?
Design Build
Building Information Modeling
