Pub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420570.003.0006
P. Ednie-Brown
In this chapter Pia Ednie Brown takes a vitally materialist approach to discussing the nonhuman creativity that comes from the house which, like any creative project, is like a living creature whose personality changes in time and whose vitality of matter is wild. Architecture as assemblages of forces, humans as a force that becomes part of a tangled ecology and the house, acting like any personality, perpetually evolving and being discovered, while in relation to us humans, it is yet another responsibility for which we are never utterly in control of. The chapter attempts to approach anthropomorphising without falling into its indisputable dangers. As the author suggests, new forms of value can be generated if things can be thought of as persons. That way we may manage to usher their activity to attention.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420570.003.0011
L. Parisi
Luciana Parisi in her chapter goes on to discuss the creative act towards novelty that comes from the nonhuman computational synthesis of logics and granular calculation of variations away from human cognition and perception based on given premises. The essay proposes an instrumental approach to design as a technology or a cognitive activity able to transform the environment by inducing new correlations of vast amounts of varied data flows. This chapter addresses the emergence of this neo-materialist approach as a symptom of a new conceptualisation of nature that no longer corresponds to the cybernetic view of an artificial system of feedback relations. It further suggests that there are some important inconsistencies between the computational conception of nature and the new rationality of the natural. Computational materiality implies a naturalisation of design intended as techne, or instrumentality, and defined not by logical aims, but operations, procedures and means that cut across strata, rules, forms and go beyond the specific constraints of each and any form.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420570.003.0003
M. Burry
For architects, stone is the most enduring of all materials available to construct their dreams. Mark Burry’s chapter draws on critical aspects of Catalan architect, Antoni Gaudí's personal development, and life on the construction site for the Sagrada Família Basilica during and after his death. Insights into the paradox of tangible versus intangible materiality are explored: interpreting Gaudí’s position with regard to the colliding forces of traditional and innovative construction in a time of rapidly increasing industrialisation and material invention. It does so by building a matrix to explicate aspects of the continuation ‘framework’ developed by Gaudí, which was posthumously handed down to his successors. Human and nonhuman intelligence are deployed not only to gain insights into how the past building methods of the original creator were conducted, but also to find threads of continuity to creatively complete the emblematic building afresh.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420570.003.0001
M. Voyatzaki
Maria Voyatzaki’s chapter examines how contemporary speculations on matter shift materiality into the epicentre of architectural contemplation and affect its ethos and praxis. By encountering the emergence of a new paradigm for which the establishment of an overall orthodoxy is impossible, the chapter, following the contemporary quest for a better understanding of this model of reality, offers a profound insight into contemporary thinking and creating architecture in this new framework defined as posthuman. As architecture throughout its history has always been defined on the basis of a certain worldview and in reference to a certain conception of the human, what will architecture become in the posthuman turn or even more in the nonhuman? How are its broad spectrum of established ideas, values and practices problematised by this new philosophical debate on architectural thinking and practicing in our globalised and technologically mediated world? The chapter examines these questions in terms of three main issues: the new conceptions of architecture that could emerge from the contemporary materialisms, the new understandings of the material outcome of architectural creative work and the influences of the above conceptions and understandings on the development of the creative process.
Maria Voyatzaki的章节探讨了当代对物质的思考如何将物质性转变为建筑思考的中心，并影响其精神和实践。通过遇到一个新的范式的出现，建立一个整体的正统是不可能的，这一章，随着当代对这种现实模式的更好理解的追求，提供了对当代思维和在这个被定义为后人类的新框架中创建建筑的深刻见解。建筑在其历史上一直是基于某种世界观和人类的某种概念来定义的，那么在后人类时代，甚至在非人类时代，建筑会变成什么呢?在我们这个全球化和技术介导的世界里，关于建筑思维和实践的新哲学辩论如何给其广泛的既定思想、价值观和实践带来问题?本章从三个主要方面考察了这些问题:当代唯物主义可能产生的建筑新概念，对建筑创造性工作的物质成果的新理解，以及上述概念和理解对创造性过程发展的影响。
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