Architecture collects and correlates isolated
information to reconcile complexity and confusion with logic and talent. The form,
function, and appearance of a building symbolize this complicated process. The increasing focus
on fine art emphasizes appearance, but does not transfer knowledge for improvement
by future generations.
This is not an attempt to abandon fine art. It is an attempt
to place it in the context of a creative process that can be taught. Talent
will always die with the owner. Knowledge can be inherited, and improvement
will enhance the contribution of exceptional talent and its many peers.
An architect is not an engineer, although it could be argued
that he/she engages in systems engineering. This is a fancy term for creation
of a logical strategy that correlates the contributions from many related
technical disciplines. The result is project completion, but this is no longer
the goal. Project completion represents the cellular formation of an artificial
environment across the face of a planet that is no longer a world without end.
Architecture has been occupied with schematic design for shelter at
the cellular level of The Built Domain, and this has contributed to an
unlimited, pathogenic anatomy we call sprawl. If you believe that we must learn
to shelter the activities of growing populations within a limited Built Domain that protects
their quality and source of life – The Natural Domain, then you may agree that
architecture has an expanded role to play. It involves strategic planning for
schematic design within a limited Built Domain, and this has the potential to
protect the public interest. Strategic architecture involves the science of city
design,[1]
and it can be taught, improved, and inherited. The form, function, and
appearance of schematic design that rests on its foundation will begin to
symbolize a new Symbiotic Period of human awareness.
[1] Hosack, Walter M., The Science of City Design,
CreateSpace, 2016. (Available in paperback and e-book versions from Amazon.com)
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