{"id":3372,"date":"2018-11-22T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cti.westminster.ac.uk\/?page_id=3372"},"modified":"2018-11-22T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T13:55:09","slug":"ouilearn-architecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ceti\/ouilearn\/ouilearn-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Oui!Learn Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Oui!Learn<\/h1>\n

Cities (+\u00a0Architecture)<\/h1>\n

Urbs<\/em>, Civitas<\/em>, Polis, Orbis<\/em><\/h1>\n

–\u00a0a guide<\/del><\/h1>\n

Proceed to Research Processes page<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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This is not a guide*<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Architecture\/Context; Context\/Architecture<\/h5>\n
Topical note: As advocated below, an interest in the architecture\/context relationship has come to the fore in a topical way with the call for curriculum reform by the Architecture Education Declares movement. The movement’s open letter can be read here<\/a>\u00a0and it can be signed here<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n
This\u00a0guide<\/del>\u00a0is for courses delivered within the School of Architecture and Cities, including architecture and interiors;\u00a0planning, housing and urban design; tourism and events; and transport and logistics. It concerns what it means to design, to plan and to educate and, particularly, how to educate to design and to plan.<\/h5>\n
If, as Jeremy Till (2009) has stated,\u00a0Architecture Depends<\/em>,\u00a0then the question that arises concerns upon what\u00a0does architecture depend and how does it do so?\u00a0The inside cover of Till’s book responds that architecture depends,\u00a0“On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world”. We are left, then, with what is perhaps a more difficult question: What is the real world? We are also left with somewhat of a conundrum: does not the real world depend\u00a0as much on architecture as architecture depends on the real world?\u00a0To which we might respond, it\u00a0all\u00a0depends, but not reciprocally, not equally, in a kind of co-conditioned and co-conditioning, differentiating arising.<\/h5>\n
Reinier\u00a0de Graaf\u00a0(2015) pursues this line of thinking about the conditional or contextual character of architecture in his essay, “I will learn you architecture”, in which\u00a0he reflects that\u00a0if he had the opportunity to re-live\u00a0his architectural education\u00a0he would spend less time on studying the profession’s intricacies\u00a0and more time studying its context.<\/h5>\n
De Graaf\u00a0(2015: 88) suggests that,<\/h5>\n
“[w]hen it comes to the education of architects, what I would propose is a reverse play between architecture and its context, a temporary state of emergency in our educational institutions, in which for a particular duration studying the context of architecture takes priority over studying architecture itself.”<\/h5>\n
What this\u00a0guide<\/del>\u00a0proposes, then, is that architecture\u00a0and its cognate disciplines and professions\u00a0have\u00a0many contexts, that new contexts are continually generated and, furthermore, that contexts are dynamically constituted: architecture is contextualised but it is also contextualising.<\/h5>\n
The\u00a0guide<\/del>\u00a0therefore seeks to highlight resources that would allow architecture and its cognate disciplines and professions\u00a0to be studied and understood through that by which it\u00a0is contextualised\u00a0and through that which\u00a0it contextualises. In this way, as Hermann Hertzberger used to say, as cited by De Graaf, it will “learn you architecture”, evoking a reciprocal process in which the question of who teaches whom, of what contextualises\u00a0what\u00a0and who\u00a0guides\u00a0whom\u00a0is forever deferred.<\/h5>\n
* The work evoked (or is it cited?)\u00a0here is double: both that of Rene Magritte and his painting\u00a0Ceci n’est pas une pipe<\/em>,\u00a0This is not a pipe<\/em>, and that of Michel Foucault and his book\u00a0Ceci\u00a0n’est\u00a0pas une pipe<\/em>,\u00a0This is not a pipe<\/em>,\u00a0raising the issue of the relationship between language (or image) as\u00a0a representational phenomenon and language (or image) as a real phenomenon, a relationship, as far as language goes, deeply embedded in the history of European thought, according to James Harkness (1983), who argues that,<\/h5>\n
“From antiquity to the present, persistent strains of Western thought have conceived the bond between language and reality as fundamentally mystical, a mutual sharing of essences. In the Old Testament, the Word is the Beginning (of Creation). For the Greeks,\u00a0Logos\u00a0connoted both reality and the knowledge (hence expressibility) of reality.”<\/h5>\n
References<\/h5>\n
De Graaf, R.\u00a0(2015). I will learn you architecture.\u00a0Volume<\/em>, 45, 84-91.<\/h5>\n
Foucault, M. (1983).\u00a0This is not a pipe<\/em>. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.<\/h5>\n
Harkness, J. (1983) Translator\u2019s introduction. In Michel Foucault,\u00a0This is not a pipe<\/em>. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.<\/h5>\n
Till, J. (2009).\u00a0Architecture depends<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n

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