Recapturing meaning: Toward a new material-based design theory for architecture
Architects and students of architecture today are less physically engaged with modeling and drawing representations of proposed things and increasingly rely on digital means and methods that are transforming their embodied interactions with actual materials. The result is that meaning, which makes a...
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| description | Architects and students of architecture today are less physically engaged with modeling and drawing representations of proposed things and increasingly rely on digital means and methods that are transforming their embodied interactions with actual materials. The result is that meaning, which makes architecture so central to our cultures, is being diminished. It is being replaced by a misplaced belief that “better” buildings and architecture result from increased use of digital tools. To recapture meaning will require a new design theory for architecture that builds on material engagement theory and the critical role of resistance and sensuous reasoning in the design process, which material has historically provided. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1129d6f93624933b8475b0e7b1fa7da2022-12-22T01:35:07ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Frontiers of Architectural Research2095-26352022-08-01114609617Recapturing meaning: Toward a new material-based design theory for architectureChristopher Bardt0Faculty of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island 02903, USAArchitects and students of architecture today are less physically engaged with modeling and drawing representations of proposed things and increasingly rely on digital means and methods that are transforming their embodied interactions with actual materials. The result is that meaning, which makes architecture so central to our cultures, is being diminished. It is being replaced by a misplaced belief that “better” buildings and architecture result from increased use of digital tools. To recapture meaning will require a new design theory for architecture that builds on material engagement theory and the critical role of resistance and sensuous reasoning in the design process, which material has historically provided.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263522000280ArchitectureDesignMaterial engagementMaterial-based designMeaningDigital tools |
| spellingShingle | Christopher Bardt Recapturing meaning: Toward a new material-based design theory for architecture Frontiers of Architectural Research Architecture Design Material engagement Material-based design Meaning Digital tools |
| title | Recapturing meaning: Toward a new material-based design theory for architecture |
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| title_short | Recapturing meaning: Toward a new material-based design theory for architecture |
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