Chapter 01_The future proposition of Architecture is changing!_Lecture

Needs and now are no longer synonymously valid! Vision, proactivity and prediction are the new vocabulary of designers.

Responsive architecture will set the status quo and any sub-ordinate, non-reactive forms will no longer satisfy The Human Condition.  In a Neo-Vitruvian sub-text where Technology is the protagonist; architecture imitates nature in the highest form of flattery: organic evolution = built evolution (firmitas//solid, utilitas//useful, venustas//beautiful, + NEW//tractabilis//responsive or adaptable)

Piecing the puzzle together: Fusing the three elements of modern existence - 1. Natural Environment  2. Built Environment  3. Technology (as a virtual world) - and neo-Vitruvian structural qualities firmitas, utilitas, venustas, tractabilis)
Source: Self-made collage

An historic review of the past reveals a social order and democratic stability that doesn’t infringe on society in the arduous, self-inflicted hierarchy of contemporary politicians in a childish banter: more staff, less sauce, more money, less sugar, more ham, less equality. Destroy the liberty and crush the creative ideas. Control and deflect! They will smile through their gold-plated teeth.

Can we look to ideas from the past for ideas on how to structure contemporary society? Let’s utilise the tried and proven urban and suburban form; when ‘things-got-done’ and the social order was less complicated.  Hierarchy was a significantly less substantive factor upon societal order and process.  I posit that with technology change, perhaps hierarchy will become a redundant bureaucratic nightmare of the past.  We can use technology and systems designs to create a ten-fold more efficient alternative to politicians.  But the question is what will be the outcome of technology itself and how will it influence society?

I think the first forerunner in the design and development stage will and must be the important consideration of culture, context, users and how all three interact with each other harmoniously.
With depleting global resources threatening human life, as we know it, we can shape a ‘counter-attack’ against the extinction of humans.  Inert structures must be left behind for a new architectural organism, catalysing a symbiosis between technology, humans, architecture and social order and bureaucracy.