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More About This Title The Innovation Imperative - Architectures ofVitality AD
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The pressure to innovate has become pervasive. Both inside and outside the architectural profession we are increasingly pressed by the quest for the new; by an innovation imperative. But what does ‘innovation’ really mean for architecture? Predominantly framed in terms of technological invention, economics and consumption, the notion of innovation is often problematically applied to the arts. Design and creativity are widely considered as drivers within innovation economies, but how can architects understand and approach the imperative to innovate meaningfully, ethically and on their own terms? Suggesting a process that is fundamentally emergent, collective and environmentally situated, The Innovation Imperative explores architectural innovation in terms of the production of vitality. Emphasising attention to ways of doing as key to innovation, this title of AD brings together historical perspectives with a range of leading provocative, emerging approaches to architectural practice that together offer fresh insight into the often vague and ubiquitous atmospheres of innovation-speak. Ultimately, this issue asks how an emphasis on vitality might offer a more nuanced understanding of the aesthetic value and ethical know-how intertwined within innovative architectural endeavour.
- Contributors include: Mario Carpo, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, Jondi Keane, Brian Massumi, Leon van Schaik, Michael Weinstock, and Gretchen Wilkins and Liam Young.
- Featured architects and designers include: Arakawa and Gins, Eva Franch i Gilabert, Greg Lynn, MOS (Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample), Francois Roche, Veronika Valk and Vergelabs.
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Pia Ednie-Brown is an Associate Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne on the Architecture programme and the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL), where she has directed numerous creative research projects involving multiple disciplines across the arts and sciences.
Mark Burry has been consultant architect to the Temple Sagrada Família in Barcelona since 1979. He is Professor of Innovation at RMIT and Director of its state-of-the-art Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL). He is the founding Director of the university's new research initiative, the Design Institute. In 2006, Burry was awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship and he was recently the recipient of the USA Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) Award for Innovative Research.
Andrew Burrow is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at SIAL working on the ARC Discovery Grant Acts of Electronic Communication, and acting as executive director for the day-to-day running of SIAL. His research interests concern computational accounts in design.
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EditorIal 5
Helen Castle
About the Guest Editors 6
Pia Ednie-Brown, Mark Burry and Andrew Burrow
Introduction 8
The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality
Pia Ednie-Brown, Mark Burry and Andrew Burrow
The Ethics of the Imperative 18
Pia Ednie-Brown
Design and Society: Innovation Through Appropriation and Adaptation 24
Mark Burry
Innovation at the Storefront: The Practice of Eva Franch i Gilabert 34
Pia Ednie-Brown
Architecture as Initiative (A Manifesto) 38
Veronika Valk
On a Fine Line: Greg Lynn and the Voice of Innovation 44
Pia Ednie-Brown
Becoming Architectural: Affirmative Critique, Creative Incompletion 50
Brian Massumi
The Ebb and Flow of Digital Innovation: From Form Making to Form Finding – and Beyond 56
Mario Carpo
Strange Vitality: The Transversal Architectures of MOS and New Territories/R&Sie(n) 62
Pia Ednie-Brown
The Vitality of Matter and the Instrumentalisation of Life 70
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
Initiating Change: Architecting the Body-Environment with Arakawa and Gins 76
Jondi Keane
bioMASON and the Speculative Engagements of Biotechnical Architecture 84
Pia Ednie-Brown
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Sentience in Cities 92
Michael Weinstock
Final Draft: Designing Architecture’s Endgame 98
Gretchen Wilkins and Andrew Burrow
Differentiation in Vital Practice: An Analysis Using RMIT University of Technology and Design Interfaces With Architects 106
Leon van Schaik
The Mothers of Invention 114
Tom Daniell
Designing Tomorrow’s Innovation 124
Terry Cutler
Counterpoint 128
Architecture, Innovation and Tradition
Antoine Picon
Contributors 134
