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Architectural signs: translating the linework of architecture
In The Thinking Hand, Juhani Pallasmaa posits that architects, along with most designers, rarely fabricate their own design work. Instead they need to understand the possibilities and limits of their materials and crafts, and communicate their ideas to the specialist craftsman whose hands become the designers surrogate hands in the execution of the work.1 Laced into this commentary is the idea that proper communication of architectural value stems from the architects innate knowledge of the material composition of the built environment. In past eras, before the advent of architecture as a profession, drawings were often embedded within the rituals, tools, and practices of building.2 In our current system of architectural production, however, that is seldom the case, because drawings are now required in advance of virtually any physical act of building. As a result, Pallasmaa argues, previous rituals, tools, and practices must now be understood by the architect through design processes in order to create synergy between the distinct design and construction phases of architecture. The construction drawing must reveal a deep knowledge of, and affection for, the materiality of buildings, for their construction.3
Architectural signs: translating the linework of architecture
In The Thinking Hand, Juhani Pallasmaa posits that architects, along with most designers, rarely fabricate their own design work. Instead they need to understand the possibilities and limits of their materials and crafts, and communicate their ideas to the specialist craftsman whose hands become the designers surrogate hands in the execution of the work.1 Laced into this commentary is the idea that proper communication of architectural value stems from the architects innate knowledge of the material composition of the built environment. In past eras, before the advent of architecture as a profession, drawings were often embedded within the rituals, tools, and practices of building.2 In our current system of architectural production, however, that is seldom the case, because drawings are now required in advance of virtually any physical act of building. As a result, Pallasmaa argues, previous rituals, tools, and practices must now be understood by the architect through design processes in order to create synergy between the distinct design and construction phases of architecture. The construction drawing must reveal a deep knowledge of, and affection for, the materiality of buildings, for their construction.3
Architectural signs: translating the linework of architecture
Schwartz, Chad Joseph (author)
2016
Article (Journal)
English
BKL:
56.60
Architektur: Allgemeines
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