The Persistent Model: addressing some contradictions of architectural practice

Description

In this lecture, Phil will identify certain contradictions that exist between the methods and the concerns of the architect.

He will propose that these contradictions can be reconciled by fundamentally reconsidering the relationship between architectural representation and architectural artefact. He will examine how this poses significant implications upon three core phases of architectural production and experience: design, fabrication and use.

The opportunity to reconsider this relationship is born out of the explicitly time-based attributes that digital representations can sustain compared to more traditional means of architectural representation.

The purpose of reconsidering this relationship is to construct an appropriate design paradigm through which to consider time-based, responsive architectures in general, and actively adaptive architectures as a specialised class.