Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture by Kenneth Frampton

Sanabria, Sergio L.

doi:10.1353/tech.1997.0029

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“…Frampton restated the four elements of architecture that Semper had proposed as quintessential historical elements of architecture, defining them thus: (i) earthwork, (ii) the hearth, (iii) framework/roof, and (iv) lightweight enclosing membrane. 10 Moreover, Frampton maintained Semper's classification of dividing 'the building crafts into two fundamental procedures: the tectonics of the frame, in which lightweight, linear components are assembled so as to encompass a spatial matrix, and the stereotomics of the earthworks, wherein mass and volume are conjointly formed through the repetitious piling of heavy mass elements'. 11 Evidently, the proportioning between these procedures and elements was entirely dependent on, and attuned to, local conditions, as both Semper and Frampton pointed out.…”

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Intersecting Knowledge Fields and Integrating Data-Driven Computational Design en Route to Performance-Oriented and Intensely Local Architectures

Hensel,

Sørensen

2014

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This paper discusses research by design efforts in architectural education, focused on developing concepts and methods for the design of performance-oriented and intensely local architectures. The pursued notion of performance foregrounds the interaction between a given architecture and its local setting, with consequences not only for the design product but also for the related processes by which it is generated. Integrated approaches to data-driven computational design serve to generate such designs. The outlined approach shifts the focus of design attention away from the delivery of finite architectural objects and towards an expanded range of architecture-environment interactions that are registered, instrumentalised and modulated over time. This paper examines ongoing efforts in integrating specific architectural goals and approaches, computational data-driven design methods and generative design processes, based on a range of context-specific and often real-time data sets. The work discussed is produced in the context of the Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics (RCAT) and the Advanced Computational Design Laboratory (ACDL) at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

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