ACADEMIC BOOK REVIEW – ARCHITECTURE DEPENDS
BOOK REVIEW ARCHITECTURE DEPENDS
Architects’ Journal 2020, Vol.01 Pg.73 Help@subscribe.architectsjournal.co.uk
Jeremy Till, Architecture Depends, pp. 232, ISBN-13: 978-0262012539 (Paperback with Ilustration), The Mit press, London, England, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology special_sales@mitpress.mit.edu
REVIEWED BY: Aldás Domenica, Endara Paulethe; daldas.arq@uisek.edu.ec mendara.arq@uisek.edu.ec INTRODUCTION The book tries to give a vision about how the architect should change his way of thinking when making architecture, for this the author gives us a series of ideas to follow to achieve the perfect architecture for the contemporary era, the author who speaks a Little about these same issues mentioned in the book Architecture Depends is John Habraken, who speaks in his book "Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing," where he offers residents a meaningful and participatory role in the design process. In conclusion, both books talk about how society influences architecture and must commit to external conditions and, at the same time, the user must be important to the process of spatial production. Furthermore, the objective of the book is to show how the idealization of the architectural object participates in the transformation of the different biological, social and cultural needs of people; and that in this way there is a social interaction between the architect and its user. Furthermore, architecture is dependent on random factors such as ethics, time, politics, the environment, and people; Also, it is also offered to rescue architects with the construction design process, making them intervene with social values, and thus create purity, autonomy, and control in the design, involving people. Therefore, architecture has a conflict between design and what the architect wants to do, and according to this it will be linked to a process of construction of the space, but sometimes architecture is affected by the uncertainty of how it works. For this reason, it is necessary to see beyond the internal conditions of the architect and how external conditions influence to generate a good space. In addition to this, the book helps to know how the history of architecture is linked to these processes, whether internal or external, and according to this, how space is generated towards a specific user can be defined. In this way, it is criticized how architecture has been learned for several years, it is linked to an idea of perfection, but this goes beyond the ordinary and how architecture depends on a discipline of external factors. Finally, the book is linked to various architectural factors that transform the space towards the user, seeking the fullness of comfort, firmness, and delight. In summary, the book is persuasive since at the moment of reading the text, the person can change his way of thinking with the proposed topic and also the reader makes the decision of the topic he wants to find out and if he wants to read one chapter and the other not in all the ways the book can be understood. BOOK REVIEW The book is said to help analyze how architecture has other factors that go beyond an architectural object, which means that architecture must be functional, aesthetic and must have a specific social analysis so that
the user feels comfortable and it feels part of the architecture. In other words, the book is sensitive with respect to the explanations in which it is argued that the space must go according to the person and the person according to the space and in this way the architecture has symbolism in humanity and that at the At the same time, the symbolism helps to know if the function is public or private. It is also mentioned that architectural education is raised from the pedagogical foundations of Beaux Arts, which suggests that architecture has traditional values over time, it is said that it is normally known as architecture described by theorists, it is not fully defined since it must unite architecture with the physical, environmental, social, political, economic conditions and actions that directly affect a project. Today more architects are needed who not only focus on what has been studied for a long time about architecture and who dare to look for new methods to configure a design. Although the architecture of before is not being criticized, since there are conditioning factors to create new forms with new thoughts that are still linked to following historical processes, which generally maintain results processes that must be different and this will be changed by each era in history and at the same time have autonomy in the design construction process through architects and users. It is general to think that any architecture that has too many ideas is a sign of confusion, whereas if a design occupies a single idea, order and control are rigorously marked. In the same way, everyone knows the three Vitrubio terms that are firmness, beauty and utility that were used frequently in the architecture of the past to make an exemplary design, but this has evolved over time, replacing it with various terms that in a certain way they can still be associated, in the book these three terms "Beauty, cleanliness and order" are mentioned, which form a triangle where the search for elementary objects for a person is out of phase, based on contemporary concerns, these Vitrubio rules in the different eras so far, which means that there is a function, the use of technology, aesthetics towards the user and that there is an acceptance of the perceptions posed with the space. Therefore, in modern architecture they identify the combination of beauty and order in the Vitruvian legacy and add cleanliness generating a purity without residues, consequently, all this is associated with pure forms, it can be said that the book is trying to direct to the past to talk about how to take it as a reference to the future and transform them to be able to make architecture, which implies an order made possible by the architect's work. As Platon said and they quote him in architecture, it depends on the book: "The first thing that our artists must do ... is to clean the slate of society and human habits ... after that, the first step will be an outline in the scheme of the social system�, in a certain way Jeremy Till tells us how the human being has evolved in architecture, architects are said to agree with the new changes that can be made in architecture. Finally, it is understood that society passes due to changes in history, but you learn from it to pass it to the context in which we live, you must start to reinterpret architecture when designing a building, accompanied by new circumstances that are transferred to the original users, new users, time , history, technology, climate and criticism. Therefore, in the book it is mentioned that architecture is a dependent discipline and then, as a profession and practice, it does everything possible to resist this dependence, the world has become resistant to order and its origin, but over time the gap between yesterday and today has changed depending on human ideas and the reality of people and their context, since the objective is to mention that architecture is based on something important, taking into account who it is and who will inhabit it. In addition, it is said that current architecture should seek these new codes that provide not only about icons and space, but also beyond, particularly in each area of study. Finally, explore this resistance that architecture is shaped more by external conditions than by internal processes of the architect, who must recognize the dependent limits of the situations that architecture covers when designing. It is agreed that architecture is a disaster and not an aesthetic disaster if not a social and institutional disaster that is much more complex, which implies that architects want to take control of everything without paying attention to what really influences the social discovery. In the same way, it is said that architecture must speak for itself and what its function is, looking for symbolism and importance based on culture, this is how architects must be artists and not act as professionals Universidad Internacional SEK – 2020-3
to make these places creative and so have some creativity and see the context that comes with designing something new and perfect based on its functionality. CONCLUSION It is substantial to see beyond the internal conditions of the architect and how the external conditions influence to create an optimal space. In the same way, all of the above has led us to criticize how architecture was learned over time, today more architects are required who not only focus on what has been studied in a long period of architecture and who dare to look for new procedures to modify a design. Although the architecture of before is not criticized since there are conditioning components to make new forms with new thoughts that are still linked to the next historical processes. For this reason, it is general to suppose that a project that has too many ideas is a sign of confusion, whereas if it takes only one initiative, order and control are rigorously marked, society is known to change history, but it is learned from her in the context in which we live. In addition, it is understood that architecture is a social and institutional disaster but not an aesthetic disaster that is much more complex, which means that architects want to take charge of everything without paying attention to what truly influences the context in which they live. In the same way, it is said that architecture must communicate on its own and what is its occupation with the environment, in this way it is how architects must be artists and not act as experts to make these sites better. This book develops new ideas to create an architecture thought from an external user to an internal one as well as the context in which it is implemented, for this reason, the book recommends it for an architect who has a different vision of design and wants to change this to another way of thinking. Therefore, the architecture seen in the book has many social, cultural, and historicist parameters that help make the architect's design much more complete. REFERENCES N. J Habraken (1972) "Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing," (Praeger Publishers).
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