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"The International Style of Modernism came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable," he said. "As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet."
"Today we have sophisticated building technology, we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of envelop, or the air flow through an urban space or structure."
"Rather than 'Architecture without Architects', it actually allows us to do 'Engineering without Engines'," he explained. "We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable."
--Bjarke Ingels, BIG (article)
To say it is impossible to control the vast quantities of details that occur in the late modern building is understandable, but one can just as easily argue that poetry is impossible given the plethora of printed text in the modern world. This type of non-detail is merely the bad detail, and we might thus add two categories to the list of detail types--the incompetent and the indifferent. The architect cannot control all details of the building, but the architect must control the important ones.
-- Edward R. Ford; The Architectural Detail
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| Details of Chicken Point Cabin operable glass wall by Tom Kundig |
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| Chicken Point Cabin by Tom Kundig |
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| Window Details of Usonian House by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Building Section Perspective by Paul Rudolph |
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| Light slot detail at Therme Vals by Peter Zumthor (via nm) |
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| Light slots at Therme Vals |
"Our 'Common Sense' is not derived from what is true in Nature but from the limits on how our senses interact with Nature." -- Neil DeGrasse Tyson
"Your thoughts are constructed by the vocabulary available to you..."
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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