TRANSPARENT ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES
What’s New and Where is Innovation?
Niemeyer Sphere, Leipzig Photograph by Tillmann Franzen
Bruce Nicol Architect RIBA, Head of Global Design – eyrise B.V.
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hat’s new and where is innovation? Two often asked questions that usually come with valid discussion to prove a point. But where should it begin and what do we actually mean, or want to know? There is a
saying in the architectural community that the last original thing in architecture was the Doric Column. Seems odd, as those columns from antiquity were stone representations of similar wooden structures. The point is that originality is wrapped up in the development of ideas. Revisiting old ideas is a tried and tested route
to push concepts forward through adaptive collaboration. So Doric becomes, Ionic, becomes Corinthian Etc etc. Similarities can been seen in architectural styles as they develop over time, divergence is a key to creativity and re-assessment. Post-Modernism, for instance, grew out of this, in some ways, as a reaction to modernism.
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