Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Contemplating Architecture as an Instrument of Policy Implementation:
Just as means are to an end, public policies are to the documentation of the general will, administrative processes are to public policy implementation, and building regulations are to architecture. Consider then that architecture is an instrument of public policy implementation. The dictionary definition of instrument is, “3. that with or by which something is effected; means; agency.” In the case of government, the implementation of public policy is the result of administrative procedures. In the realm of the built world, architecture is the effect. Examined under a different light, both public policy and architecture can be considered the instrument by which something else is effected instead of being the result alone. If we recognize that public policy reflects the general will of the people, then in its rhetorical form, it is used to articulate the desires of a society. It is the agent of a democracy. Identifying architecture as a means instead of an end is more difficult since it is rarely considered as such consciously. Architecture, unlike public policy, is often open to interpretation. For some the term architecture evokes images of well known buildings, for some it is simply the quotidian built environment, while for others, “Architecture is whatever in a building does not point to utility,”. Once the term architecture is defined by designers and users (just as procedures for enforcing public policy are legislated) one can propose considering architecture among those methods by which something is effected. The importance of the contemplative architect to society is clear when distinction is made between projects where architecture is an end and those where it is the means to an end as identified by the general will of a society.
Contemplating Architecture as an Instrument of Policy Implementation:
Just as means are to an end, public policies are to the documentation of the general will, administrative processes are to public policy implementation, and building regulations are to architecture. Consider then that architecture is an instrument of public policy implementation. The dictionary definition of instrument is, “3. that with or by which something is effected; means; agency.” In the case of government, the implementation of public policy is the result of administrative procedures. In the realm of the built world, architecture is the effect. Examined under a different light, both public policy and architecture can be considered the instrument by which something else is effected instead of being the result alone. If we recognize that public policy reflects the general will of the people, then in its rhetorical form, it is used to articulate the desires of a society. It is the agent of a democracy. Identifying architecture as a means instead of an end is more difficult since it is rarely considered as such consciously. Architecture, unlike public policy, is often open to interpretation. For some the term architecture evokes images of well known buildings, for some it is simply the quotidian built environment, while for others, “Architecture is whatever in a building does not point to utility,”. Once the term architecture is defined by designers and users (just as procedures for enforcing public policy are legislated) one can propose considering architecture among those methods by which something is effected. The importance of the contemplative architect to society is clear when distinction is made between projects where architecture is an end and those where it is the means to an end as identified by the general will of a society.
Contemplating Architecture as an Instrument of Policy Implementation:
Boyle, Andrea (Autor:in)
12.06.2019
ARCC Conference Repository; 2002: Reflective knowledge and potential architecture | l’Université de Montréal.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
720
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