In a new book, an MIT researcher looks at the influence of high-tech simulations on the profession of architecture.
“It’s not only that technology has had an impact on design,” Loukissas says. “Certain new technologies have become part of an ongoing negotiation about what constitutes the work of architects versus that of engineers.”
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“Too often in schools, architecture is still taught as work of a sole practitioner who independently conceives and refines an architectural idea and hands it off to someone who builds it according to the specifications,” Loukissas says. “Well, it never happens that way. It’s a kind of myth.”
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As it stands now, Loukissas thinks, architects are walking a fine line between “casting themselves as generalists” with a useful range of knowledge, on the one hand, and being perceived as lacking “expertise in any one area” on the other. Meanwhile, he adds, “a lot of engineers see technology, and its creators, as occupying the central role in design, with architects being just another branch of this process.”
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Yanni Loukissas
Book _ Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture
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