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Abstract
In This Is What We Do: A Muf Manual, the partners of the firm muf architecture/art wrote that ‘paradoxically, in order to make the thing the collaboration has to be about the making of the relationship rather than the object.’1 This article takes this assertion as its basis and examines the implications of treating the individual and collective relationships that structure an architectural project – which I will refer to as the project’s relational field – as a site that can be manipulated in order to affect both production and outcome. This is achieved through the transposition of concepts from Mikhail Bakhtin’s work on creative activity, art, literature, and language to design using a case study of muf’s Barking Town Square project in London (2004–10).
在《这就是我们所做的:一本Muf手册》中,Muf建筑/艺术公司的合伙人写道:“矛盾的是,为了制作东西,合作必须建立关系,而不是对象。这篇文章以这一论断为基础,并探讨了如何处理构成建筑项目的个人和集体关系的含义——我将其称为项目的关系领域——作为一个可以被操纵的场所,以影响生产和结果。这是通过米哈伊尔·巴赫金(Mikhail Bakhtin)在创造性活动、艺术、文学和语言方面的作品的概念转换来实现的,并以muf在伦敦的Barking Town Square项目为例进行了设计(2004-10)。
期刊介绍:
Arq publishes cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Other features include interviews, occasional reports, lively letters pages, book reviews and an end feature, Insight. Reviews of significant buildings are published at length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals. Elegantly designed, inspirational and often provocative, arq is essential reading for practitioners in industry and consultancy as well as for academic researchers.