Pure science applied science technology

Seminario 4: Arquitectura Campos del Pensamiento MAP[au] 2014-15 | FAU | UNLP

| Prof. Dr. Alberto Guillermo Ranea | Zaid, Ayman Saf

Pure Science, Applied Science, Technology, Engineering: An Attempt at Definitions James K. Feibleman | Technology and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Autumn, 1961), pp. 305-317 When thinking about definitions and sequence of all of Pure Science, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering; the set of phrases investigated by Feibleman as business of science, comparing it to business of art, points of intersection are found, especially that processes from theory to application are now more understood as Acts and Opinions where it was named before gradually as Facts to Theories and Assumptions. One common aspect between both businesses is the aim to achieve public benefit, although, art is still considered with a specialty of having a more side of personal and emotional perception, and not literary measurable by same keys and factors used to evaluate science.

All work of investigation in any field is made in reference to the Knowledge available in an environment; at specific time in specific location for a specific group. The approach for any creation, discovery or invention is always driven by a need at a time. In the past, fire was needed for security, in other time it was needed for industry and production. Once art was sought from ruling class as pure luxury, now it`s produced and consumed as a natural element from and to all members of society, parts of it as basic education is considered now a basic human right.

When thinking in arts and in architecture, we can also found the Theoretical Architect; the philosopher, the top-notch academic and critic, the creative thinker, the Application architect; who is working on planning the previously made theories and shaping them to life and function, or the planner working to draw a theory in a master plan, and Technologist is the studio architect, who receives clients and supply proposals for a specific architectural project. The engineer is the operational on-site architect or construction worker.

Although, sometimes the separation could be made within process flow but not in personnel, as the model of the mixture of all do exist; the pioneer architect and philosopher who create genuine ideas, who also plan his ideas in order, form and function to be a Solution, and go further to exercise all his results for a specific Product.

There are various interpretations for the best lifestyle of humans, its’ ceiling is the ideal limit. The ideal limit is the best the imagination can reach, still physically it is unreachable, or, an applied way to put it in practice is not found yet. Concepts like equality and social justice have been discussed long time ago, still it is legendary and mythical.

There are different solutions directed to reach best style for habitats in an environment in exact place and time. The methods and systems offered to practice the pervious solutions and to construct the contemporary society are uncountable. That`s why when an architect furnishes a proposal, he provides the opinion he developed for that project, he imagined his proposal as the best solution can be provided, but for sure the group of all competitors of architects are together providing various proposals to solve the same problem, which all can be correct. The choice goes only for one to get it alive.

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Seminario 4: Arquitectura Campos del Pensamiento MAP[au] 2014-15 | FAU | UNLP

| Prof. Dr. Alberto Guillermo Ranea | Zaid, Ayman Saf

If there is a competition to build a new city in a specific environment for specific people, and there is a clear list of detailed guidelines offered as terms of reference; it will be predicted that proposals which will be received will show a variety of ways to have the city. Sometimes even if two firms agree on equal sets of references and concepts, programs and priorities, the results will differ. This also depends on how a Technologist understand Applied Architecture, and how Application Architects understand Pure Architecture. That’s to say a theory or school can be read and understood in different ways, also the method of organizing the proposal itself has variations.

The process of design can open new doors for the architect, allowing him to contribute with his kind of development. The designer can start -even if aware or unconscious- organizing his proposal in reference to a set of knowledges he has learnt from others’ theories, the mixture he has with his own adventures can lead him to create new way producing new Product.

If an architect does an exercise of redesigning a project he has done once -with a time gap between both- he will provide another proposal, he may keep some rule he used to have and change another, assuming in between both times his own knowledge had changed or developed. His set of basic rules and priorities will be different. He will even be able to understand some criticism he received before and would not be able to understood at that time, and he will be able to criticize his own work, even if not objectively. Such a difference in production can be noticed for example in Le Corbusier earliest and latest works, or in Gerhard Richter different exhibitions.

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