Saturday, January 17, 2009
Craft/Making/Tectonics
It seems the idea of pre-fabrication in architecture is still ringing ever clearly today as it was when it was first proposed in the beginnings of modernism in architecture. Is the idea of pre-fabrication in architecture seem to be a solution to the way we make things, or is workmanship still something that should be kept in high esteem and practiced in the making of things?
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I believe pre-fabrication has revolutionized how we can design modularly and has broken through to limitless possibilities in larger commercial businesses. Now, if the main idea behind pre-fabrication is just to make things faster and not just easier and more profitable and not just as an option, then i believe it has crossed the boundary of workmanship and lower it from its high esteem. I definitely feel that workmanship will always be the basis of any design. I just hope that it does not stay in the background forever! Workmanship (experience, passion, and "flow")goes hand and hand with design to create a unique masterpiece and that really pre-fabrication is just technique to architecture. I do see how it has changed archiecture in modernism and the scary thing is consistently being promoted to globally. What if soon all over the world art and architecture resemble each other because of this so-called solution? (Kind of a drastic question, i know)!
ReplyDeleteI think, though, that art and architecture already do resemble one another. I'm not sure if pre-fabrication will be the solution to this issue, because I don't know if that is the problem it is trying to solve. I think pre-fabrication is a technique, but one that is trying to modernize architecture to the point of maybe systematizing it. I hope that this doesn't happen in architecture. I think that a lot of architecture is the feeling and emotion felt when experiencing/making it, not by the systems of organization that were the means to making it. I agree with your statement that pre-fabrication should not be pursued for the sake of making things quicker in production and I hope it doesn't make it to that point.
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