Architecture is about designing systems that are functional and practical. Is about building physical structures that reflect social structures at the same time that as define.
It’s also about expression and aesthetics. In this process of “building an expression”, experimentation is needed. And as the past show us, experimentation can not be separated from technique and materials. Innovation in many fields influenced the evolution of architecture. Today the computer and digital technologies opened a different “modus operandi”, even if more theoretical and dry, of doing and thinking about architecture. It is taking architecture in the hands of the computer, it’s true but this experimentation is necessary and healthy to provoke different approaches and different processes.
In the past, architects like Archigram and Buckminster Fuller purposed new visions that were criticized at the time and today we see their ideas putting in practice and used as inspiration. Both also developed ideas and concepts and they heavily influenced without making buildings ( one critic of the computational architecture). I am not saying that computational architecture is equivalent but is somehow similar and comparable.
What differ today is the society where we live and are part of. We live in a faster world today, where information and tools are available as never before. What is today avant-garde , in the next day is mainstream” (alex ).
I like futuristic visions. I think they open new perspectives, new ways of thinking about, int his case, architecture and cities. Experimentation is needed, new ways of thinking about space and structures is needed. If scripts and code are going to be the language of architecture in the future I don’t know…
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