The Necessary Evolution of Architecture
The Reason
Architecture has its written western origins within the text of De Architectura but the author of the text, remains obscure. He does however cite the following in Book Chapter 1.
The earliest complete definition of Architecture comes from the Harley 2767 manuscript
‘Caput Primum
[1] Architecti est scientia pluribus disciplinis et variis eruditionibus ornata, cuius iudicio probantur omnia quae ab ceteris artibus perficiuntur. Opera ea nascitur et fabrica et ratiocinatione. Fabrica est continuata ac trita usus meditatio, quae manibus perficitur e materia cuiuscumque generis opus est ad propositum deformationis. Ratiocinatio autem est. quae res fabricatas sollertiae ac rationis proportione demonstrare atque explicare potest.’
Translation
‘Chapter One.
Architecture is a science of many disciplines that is overlaid with various learning, and through proper judgment of each art it is perfected. The whole labor is born out of practice and theory.
Practice is the continuous and regular exercise of meditation, which is through the work of the hands and any material proposed through drawing.
Theory is the ability to meditate on, show and explain the reasons for the practice. ‘
Source: Unknown author Vitruvius De Architectura Harley Manuscript.2767 Book 1
In this definition Practice and Theory are the two fundamental natures of Architecture.
Practice; Architecture; is a thought communicated.
Theory; Architecture; is thought explaining the reasons for the contents and nature of the communication.
Practice and Theory are therefore fundamentally composed of idea and thought.
The Premise
Architecture must therefore acknowledge the learning of its own time.
This is where Architecture needs to evolve to.
The Original Greek – Roman Learning
This is the learning that created the classical form of Architecture.
Morals
Agricultural, domestic and military skills as well as the moral and civil responsibilities, counting, weighing and measuring.
Litterator
Reading and Writing
Grammar
Reading Writing, Speaking, Poetic Analysis , Greek
Rhetor
Legal and Political Education, geography, music, philosophy, literature, mythology, geometry, medicine
Philosophy
The Great Knowledge of the World.
The Original Architectural Evolution
Architecture originated as the of knowledge of timekeeping, the construction of machinery and building. It was deliberately evolved by patrons, empires, guilds, celebrities, dictatorships, commerce, authors, advertising and political movements.
It was evolved as order and repetition to create an infinite variety of forms through classical, purist forms, utilitarian and mathematical forms to a mass produced product form.
It was created for prestige, conquest, fulfilling needs, creating values qualities, appreciations of beauty, cultures to rebuild societies after conflict, to create individual prestige
The Current Architecture.
Currently Architecture is a mass produced product that anyone in the world can mimic or purchase to obtain prestige.
It is a fragmented, minimal value, mass produced, disposable, consumer item, without direction.
The Changing World
There is a paradox in our World that Architecture must solve. It is this.
To increase human survivability = Climate change must be reduced
To reduce climate change = Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced.
To reduce Greenhouse gas emissions = Fossil fuels use must be reduced.
To reduce Fossil fuels use = Depleted Earth resources must be used to make renewable energy.
By depleting the Earth resources to make renewable energy = human survivability is reduced.
This is the pattern humans have set for their future.
This indicates the directions in which Architecture must evolve.
The New Learning
These are the functional knowledge study topics of our age that can direct Architecture towards a solution of the World Paradox and indicate Architectures own evolutionary direction.
Bio-Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Intelligent Textiles, Nuclear Energy Fusion Energy, Renewable Energy, Recycling, Physics, Chemistry, Agricultural, Astronomy, Ecology, Meteorology, Climatology, Oceanography, Geography, Geology, Hydrology, Extra-planetary Sciences, Biology, Zoology, Botany, Medicine, Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biomechanics, Biostatistics, Biophysics, Cytology, Embryology, Endocrinology, Epidemiology, Genetics, Immunology, Medical Physics, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Nutrition Science, Pathology, Pharmacology, Photobiology, Physiology, Radiobiology, Toxicology, Cognition, Veterinary Medicine, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Engineering, Business Administration, Communication, Information Technology, Criminology, Economics, Education, Government, Linguistics, International Relations, Political Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology, Geography, History, Law, Human Behavior, Social Patterns, Humanities, Human Condition, Logic, Theoretical Computer Science, Information Theory, Systems Theory, Decision Theory, Statistics, Linguistics, Mathematics, Abstract Algebra, Analysis & Calculus, Applied, Category Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Elementary Algebra & Trigonometry, Geometry & Topology, Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics, Pure Mathematics, Study & Teaching, Statistics, Systems Values, Uncertainties, Rationality, Optimization, Game Theory And Decisions, Nanotechnology, Literature, Art, Sculpture, Crafts, Trades.
There is therefore a greater learning to draw upon to solve the World Paradox problem.
This indicates again that Architecture should also be different to respond to this knowledge and its own necessary future evolution.
The Necessary Evolution of Architecture
Order and Repetition are the legacies of Architecture.
When Order and Repetition are applied to a set of simple components They produce the greatest amount of possible variety. Without either or both of them the available variety, solutions decreases.
To solve the current World Paradox Architectural order and repetition will have 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 therefore retain its knowledge of Order and Repetition and evolve them to totally reform its knowledge and its language, its aesthetic.
The Timeline of the Evolution of Architecture.
This is the likely timetable for the evolution of Architecture as the knowledge and technology that informs it also evolves.
2003
The Human Genome project is completed.
Humans gain control of their own evolution.
They write an electronic, interactive, book about it that anyone can consult.
Genetics moves into the product application stage.
2012
Confirmation of the existence of the Higgs Boson and the Higgs Field at
CERN
The original 4 dimensions of space time energy are extended to 26 levels of space time energy dimensions.
Humans spatial relationship with the Universe expands from 4 space time energy dimensions to 26 space time energy dimensions.
The idea of a location in space becomes redundant.
There is only a temporary probability
Renewable, Passive Energy systems and nuclear energy generation are deployed worldwide to reduce energy, resource and environment depletion.
Nuclear energy power stations begin creating fuel, from the sea, for Fusion Energy.
Nuclear energy power stations are enclosed in new protective dams and waste water recycling pools to allow extraction of Lithium, Deutirium and Tritium and remove radioactive materials from the out flowing seawater.
Nano Technology reaches a product application stage.
2013
Passive building begins to become the standard type of Architecture.
Building envelops reduce in volume.
Green Architecture localizing renewable energy sources, food and water production begins to be evolved.
Fusion power stations pass the initial development stage and become larger prototypes.
Nano Technology is used to create high performance materials for the
automotive and aerospace industries.
Medicine changes to gene therapy.
Hospitals start to become obsolete.
Surgery is replaced by keyhole surgery and then gene surgery.
Surgery areas start to become obsolete.
Medical databases start to replace Doctors surgeries.
Self diagnosis programmes are written needing no medical training at all.
Medical knowledge begins to become obsolete as working knowledge of surgery, diagnosis, and treatment is lost.
Organs can be grown in laboratories for implantation.
Diagnosis and testing laboratories are reduced to the size of postage stamps and mass printed.
Memory materials impregnated with genetic material can be ingested to then locate a required treatment area before slowly releasing chemicals to treat a patient.
Organs, including skin, but excluding the brain can be manufactured and grown inside humans.
Artificial limbs, hearts, eyes , begin to become redundant.
Chemical manufacturing plants become genetic material processing centres in clean room environments.
Genetic gene material is patented.
Humans choose the genetic characteristics of their children and have laboratories alter their DNA to suit the parents desires.
2015
The Large Hadron Collider examines the energy levels of the recently discovered Higgs Boson and the 26 boson dimensions of space time energy.
The United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change takes place in Paris, France to ratify the climate agreements to limit the use of fossil fuels to a 34% reduction by 2020 and an 80% reduction by 2050 below 1990 emission levels.
The World prepares for a reduced energy future and lower levels of manufacturing.
The developments at CERN and the Large Hadron Collider relating to particle physics allow Nano-Technology to progress into more product areas.
2020
Fusion Energy using the ITER tokomak reactor becomes available.
The use of fossil fuels is reduced by 34% below 1990 emission levels.
The World enters an initial period of lower carbon emission levels.
Oil reaches its peak level.
Investments in oil resources reach their peak point in profit.
Investments shift into Fusion Energy.
The World shifts over to a renewable, low energy, low manufacturing, economy.
Fusion Energy begins to create 5 times the carbon energy output humans used in 2013.
2040
Fusion Energy linked to the knowledge of High Energy Particle Physics allows the examination of energy resources to expand by a factor of 26 space time energy dimensions.
The use of Nano-technology allows the development of highly efficient machines, Nano materials, Nano machines, Nano environments, Nano A.I., Nano colonization, Nano sensory input and output adaption for humans, Nano batteries, Nano energy, Nano space, Nano time.
Humans begin to create humans for any environment anywhere.
The first generation of genetically modified humans reaches what used to be called middle age. Their own age level is indeterminate and may be extended by further gene therapy.
All materials can be turned into other materials.
2050
The full genetic potential variation of humans through Nano-genetic manipulation of the genetic code is achieved and allows a factor of 81,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000; combinations of base pairs of our organic compounds; levels of human evolution.
Nano-technology and genetics and information technology allow a new planet wide genetic communications system to evolve to replace the original internet.
All information is available free anywhere at any time.
The use of fossil fuels is reduced by 80% below 1990 emission levels.
Fossil fuels use ends.
Renewable energy and Fusion Energy increase in energy supply worldwide.
Nano Technology links to Renewable Energy, Fusion Energy and Genetics.
Biological adaption of humans by humans becomes a product.
Humans can be wherever they want to be in any form.
Architecture is encoded in a site based fusion resonator that has the parameters of the envelope form programmed into it. Through the application of the correct energy frequency at the correct point in space time a localized particle collision and a mass energy, energy mass interaction is created and matter is formed.
Materials are no longer extracted and transported they are evolved out of the potential matter density of the environment.
Mass, density per unit volume is created from particle collisions when needed.
Sites are examined and priced on the particle matter density at their space time energy coordinates over 26 dimensions.
Purchasers can buy one energy density level and then upgrade to another.
They remain at their location and produce an infinite variety of rooms and environments on the same site volume.
Seen from a distance the city using this 26 dimensional form of Architecture is a constantly appearing and misting out swarm of light flashes as the particles enter the visible wavelength of light and then exit it after the space they created is no longer needed.
Humans create art, literature, sculpture, cultures in 26 dimensions of space time energy.
The possibility of living at multiple energy dimensions becomes available.
Buildings becoming active only when occupied and then self reduce to a lower space time energy level.
It becomes possible to envisage a building that can be created of materials that evolve into 26 other variants of energy and matter, that create energy from the interaction of their material junctions, that create energy across a whole city, that can be considered reactive and re-aging chemical reactions. Life Forms, that can exhibit the characteristics of a Life Form, that can organize itself, metabolize, achieve homeostasis, allow for adaptation, respond to stimuli, reproduce, grow, die and be recycled, that has no envelope penetrations but recognises a change in environment and alters its permeability, that the occupant can change by merely approaching the envelope edge and through localised electron transfer cause the density of a material to change or pull back, that is not as site specific but site manufacturing anywhere on the planet, that has a minimal mass state, that changes to density in a singe material to suit conditions, that has infinite heights and spans, that is formed of smart composite materials that can change, texture, colour, weight for transport and installation and then again for use or demolition, that is a communication system composed of resonating composites without any energy or services, that hums to the noises around it, that is a detector or replication organism, that is built of pure energy, that is released as a gas that is energy time coded to locate its site and assemble itself at lower energy levels.
Human colonization of the solar system begins.
Nano-technology and genetic communications can be coded into buildings.
Nano- genetic renewable energy systems are installed to replace the obsolete fossil fuel types.
Fusion Energy moves to a domestic unit size but at Planck energy levels to match and alter the existing environment.
2100
The single human communication organism expands in efficiency by a population factor of 15,000,000,000.
Mass drive ships are evolved in space to assist colonization.
Mass is distorted by Nano-clouds of particles behind and around the ship to allow it to use gravity wells as acceleration.
Mass variation to form transit gate wormholes, hyperspace, links are developed.
The planet is covered in a Nano-repair system that replenished original materials.
The Nano-system moves off planet to alter space to suit human colonization.
The single human communication organism moves off planet.
This solves the World Paradox at all levels and moves Architecture forward with the learning of its own and possible future age.
Ian K Whittaker
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