Architecture as an idea

Minnaert, F

Architecture as an idea

Minnaert, F

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Publisher:: Uro
Citation:: Lacoste + Stevenson = Book, 2012, First, pp. 15 - 18
Issue Date:: 2012-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Minnaert, F	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Andrew Mackenzie	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Lacoste + Stevenson = Book, 2012, First, pp. 15 - 18	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-9872281-2-3	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/22586
dc.description.abstract	The preface examines the historical and ideological background of the team 'Lacoste and Stevenson' which comes from a generation of young European architects whose work has been promoted by the politics of open idea competitions supported by public institutions. Idea design competitions play a crucial role within architectural debate, encourage a turnover in the way the right to speak and build is distributed within the profession. Its condition of possibility is to embrace a culture of speculative thinking, uncertainty and self-criticism. A common practice in Europe that is, unfortunately, rare in Australia. This cultural heritage has formatted their design approach today. The thesis of the preface is that Idea not only qualifies a particular type of design competition as a modus operandi helping to grant access emerging practices to the architectural scene but should also be understood in a specific way: idea as a cause as when architecture was a ramification of a larger social project. Lacoste and Stevenson's agenda focuses on the design of conditions for architectural projects to operate as a social device rather than an object for contemplation. In order to implement their multi-faceted socio-political agenda Lacoste and Stevenson's privileged strategy is an in-depth speculation on a series of factors: typologies, limit, density, identity and social interaction. A majority of their projects is about inventing new types or re-interrogating familiar ones. New typologies stem also from the exploration of limits, edge conditions and thresholds with the ability to reconcile different heterogeneous conditions, environments or typologies.	en_US
dc.publisher	Uro	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Lacoste + Stevenson = Book	en_US
dc.title	Architecture as an idea	en_US
utslib.location	Melbourne	en_US
utslib.for	1201 Architecture	en_US
utslib.citation.edition	First	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.edition	First	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Melbourne	en_US

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The preface examines the historical and ideological background of the team 'Lacoste and Stevenson' which comes from a generation of young European architects whose work has been promoted by the politics of open idea competitions supported by public institutions. Idea design competitions play a crucial role within architectural debate, encourage a turnover in the way the right to speak and build is distributed within the profession. Its condition of possibility is to embrace a culture of speculative thinking, uncertainty and self-criticism. A common practice in Europe that is, unfortunately, rare in Australia. This cultural heritage has formatted their design approach today. The thesis of the preface is that Idea not only qualifies a particular type of design competition as a modus operandi helping to grant access emerging practices to the architectural scene but should also be understood in a specific way: idea as a cause as when architecture was a ramification of a larger social project. Lacoste and Stevenson's agenda focuses on the design of conditions for architectural projects to operate as a social device rather than an object for contemplation. In order to implement their multi-faceted socio-political agenda Lacoste and Stevenson's privileged strategy is an in-depth speculation on a series of factors: typologies, limit, density, identity and social interaction. A majority of their projects is about inventing new types or re-interrogating familiar ones. New typologies stem also from the exploration of limits, edge conditions and thresholds with the ability to reconcile different heterogeneous conditions, environments or typologies.

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