What has and will change Architecture ?
Architecture is a functional art.
First there is the knowledge of the environment for survival, then the knowledge of natural materials and resources for development, then the use of energy to change the resources and the environment by technology.
Architecture originated as the knowledge of timekeeping, the construction of machinery and building.
With the knowledge of these three parts Architecture developed into the art of creating sensory interchange, aesthetics, through form.
The aesthetics were then fixed in orders and utilized as an incentive.
The incentives were directed at the creation of prestige for each society using Architectural aesthetic orders.
From 7000BC to 1911 architectural order was developed then frozen under the will of patrons and empires to known historical forms for the purpose of prestige.
From 1911 to 1933 architectural order was developed through patrons, guilds and celebrities by removing the old ‘classical’ orders and replacing them with utilitarian purist orders created from mathematical relationships for the purpose of prestige.
From 1933 to 1952 architectural orders reverted under dictatorships to the ancient ‘classical’ order forms to create the prestige of conquest.
From 1952 to 1963 architectural order was used as commercial prestige through patrons and celebrities to rebuild the world after conflict.
From 1963 to 1973 architectural order developed as a world product through patrons, celebrities, authors, and advertising to create individual prestige.
From 1973 to 2007 architectural order was used by political movements as an example of a negative world product that was consuming the environment, resources and energy of the Earth.
From 2007 to 2013 architectural order collapsed under economic conflict.
From 2013 to 2020 architectural order will have to reform to supply new sensory interchange, through form, for new needs, values, qualities, aesthetic appreciations of beauty, cultures and societies as the world copes with depletion of energy, natural resources and environment.
Architecture must totally reform its knowledge, aesthetic and order.
Ian K Whittaker
Email: iankwhittaker@gmail.com
26/06/2013
14/10/2020
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