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Strange Tangents, Matt Hutchison
Strange Tangents, Matt Hutchison
Oz
At a moment in time when designers, architects and makers have an unprecedented selection of high-precision machines, computational tools, and networks of information at their disposal, the term “craft” seems anachronistic and yet still somehow overused. Once synonymous with dexterous coordination between the hand and mind of the maker and grounded in the physical world, the term has been appropriated and misused for any number of pursuits. A reconsideration of “craft” is in order, as it is situated within contemporary design (and making) practices.
Material Operations And Craft, Pete Wenger
Material Operations And Craft, Pete Wenger
Oz
Patkau Architects, over the past few years, has initiated and pursued a series of experimental projects. The results are broadly varied in appearance, but are nonetheless unified by an effort to discover formal and structural identities through playful work with materials. That work was recently collected and published under the title Material Operations,identifying the procedural continuity.
Neo-Industrialism: A New Age Of Architectural Craft, Ramona Albert
Neo-Industrialism: A New Age Of Architectural Craft, Ramona Albert
Oz
We live in a world where speed precedes everything we do. From our forms of socializing, to communication, to building buildings, we are constantly surrounded by the need for faster processes. The human brain has its limits, but machines enable us to think faster, do faster, and to create concepts that were impossible before. In architecture, we use digital technologies to facilitate imagination, to create new forms, and we then need the same technologies to build them.
Table Of Contents And Prologue, Aaron Bolli, Eric Janes
Table Of Contents And Prologue, Aaron Bolli, Eric Janes
Oz
Editorial board, table of contents, and a prologue from the editors
Landscapes Of The Long Now, Scott Geiger
Landscapes Of The Long Now, Scott Geiger
Oz
For a dozen years Reed Hilderbrand has worked to create a public park on the Hudson River at Beacon, New York. This park includes a new kayak pavilion, which was designed, built, and occupied in eighteen months. The pavilion opened in 2012. It is briskly used in the summer seasons and there is a waiting list to rent a berth on its racks. Meanwhile, the landscape continues to mature. With the final site remediation project complete, the last part of the park’s design will kick off construction this spring. After two decades of effort, Long Dock Park will fulfill its …
Contributors, Aaron Bolli, Eric Janes
Contributors, Aaron Bolli, Eric Janes
Oz
Biographical information on contributors to volume 39, and a list of benefactors and donors
Craft Surrogates, Jonathan Nesci
Craft Surrogates, Jonathan Nesci
Oz
What “craft” means proves itself to be elusive and, at the same time, ubiquitous regarding the act of making. Through this written exercise I look inward and study where craft is found in my own work as well as observe how it applies to the work of my contemporaries. Although most think of a craftsperson as the individual who makes objects, my interests in fabrication span multiple materials and connection methods. Early in my journey I grew frustrated with limitations of my making skill sets. It took a few years to realize that making wasn’t my strength. Instead, I rely …
Craft In The Digital Era: Louis Sullivan, Digital Technology, And Designbuild Education, Keith Van De Riet
Craft In The Digital Era: Louis Sullivan, Digital Technology, And Designbuild Education, Keith Van De Riet
Oz
Perhaps digital craft in architecture can be effectively calibrated through emulation of the masters. This is not to suggest we retrogress to periods of architectural style, but rather leverage relevant benchmarks within pedagogical models to establish standards of craft in digital design and fabrication. By adopting this preservation-oriented and Beaux- Arts style of learning, computational technologies can be vetted through the modeling and construction of architecture embedded with some of the most recognized achievements of human hand and mind.