The Architectural Profession: Nexus of Definition. 2013.

The Architectural Profession: Nexus of Deinition The link between the intent for architecture and its presencing: Researching technic as proxy in the profession’s self deinition and the implied vectors for architectural evolution. Abstract for a scientiic study. Michael Karassowitsch, M.S.Arch, Architect at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna/Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Wien.2013.05 The Architectural Profession: Nexus of Deinition. The link between the intent for architecture and its presencing: Researching technic as proxy in the profession’s self deinition and the implied vectors for architectural evolution. Abstract Contents 1. Abstract (English) 2. Abstract (German) 3. Information Graphic 4. Bibliography The Architectural Profession: Nexus of Deinition The link between the intent for architecture and its presencing: Researching technic as proxy in the profession’s self-deinition, and the implied vectors for architectural evolution. Abstract Despite work by the professional associations, social research, and intent in education to develop the productive ield of architecture, the practice of architecture is becoming more problematic. Even through the popular arena of working with market forces, although often necessitated by law, the results are dubious. Studying the practice of architecture proves dificult when assessed in term of its cultural context. It forms a very broad set of factors which lack grounding. Architectural practice is structured in layers of subjective value based upon individuals and their context, resulting in an expansion which makes focus on a key aspect elusive. Our research approaches an underlying point which anchors us. We will research the nexus where the work intended to provide architecture is allowed to enter the world to be presenced. (We use ‘presenced’ to allow that architecture may not be strictly that which is built.) We intend to focus at an objective point where the ‘professional’ right to practice architecture is located. The research will be in seven venues, which are nations, and will include deining this nexus in each as narrowly as possible. At that compression point, into which at least a century of thousands of people’s efforts have gone, is borne the form of architectural practice that we know. The nexus will be assessed for how architecture and the work of an architect are deined. We will deine each nexus and evaluate the documents of legislation and the articles of the associations in each nexus using mainly interpretive analysis. We will then extend this to the intents of the leadership through interviews which are narrow in scope and synchronous with the approach to the documents: What is the intent of (your) assembly and what are its successes? These interviews will open our work to implicit nuances and vectors of action. Giving evidence of the movement within the data of the law and the associations where pressures, even in stagnant situations, will make a direction evident. The two part output will be a mapping of the productive ield of architecture underlying practice. This mapping within a customized database tool, forms an artifact, akin to illing a canvas. A linked textual report, documenting the research, analysis and conclusions, will be derived from this. Our research will yield proof that architectural practice is deined in terms of technic, and is therefore circumstantial. We will be able to give grounding to our situation with evidence that technology is used as a proxy: the form of this condition bears its resolution, when it is posed as a question. This research will give a foundation to the social and cultural investigations, and to efforts within practice, that they gain in relevance and effectiveness. The Architectural Profession: Nexus of Deinition  Der Berufstand der Architektur Abstract Trotz der Bemühungen der Berufsvereinigungen, soziologischer Studien, und Zielsetzungen der Ausbildung, die sich die Weiterentwicklung des produktiven Bereiches der Architektur zum Ziel gemacht haben, wird die Praxis der Architektur zunehmend problematisch. Sogar in der beliebten Arena des freien Marktes sind die Ergebnisse, obwohl gesetzlich vorgeschrieben, zweifelhaft. Eine Untersuchung der Praxis der Architektur vom Standpunkt ihres kulturellen Wertes erweist sich als komplex und breitgefächert; vielfach fehlt in diesem weiten Feld der Bezug zur Praxis. Die Praxis der Architektur ist auf der Basis individueller subjektiver Wertvorstellungen und deren Kontext strukturiert; dies führt zu einer Informationswolke, die eine Bestimmung auf einen Kernaspekt erschwert. Unsere Recherche soll einen deinitiven Standpunkt einnehmen und sich einem grundlegenden Aspekt nähern. Diese Studie konzentiert sich auf den Nexus, wo sich die Absicht Architektur zu liefern verwirklichen darf und Präsenz bekommt. ( Das Wort „Präsenz“ wurde gewählt, um auszudrücken, dass der Begriff „Architektur” sich nicht auf tatsächlich ausgeführte Bauten beschränkt.) Wir wollen uns auf den objektiven Bereich konzentrieren, in dem die „professionelle“ Berechtigung, den Beruf des Architekten auszuüben, situiert ist. Die Recherchen werden an sieben verschiedenen Orten, in sieben verschiedenen Ländern durchgeführt, und es wird unter anderem die möglichst genaue Festlegung dieses Verknüpfungspunktes an jedem der Orte beinhalten. In diesem Brennpunkt, in dem mindestens ein Jahrhundert lang die Bemühungen vieler Tausender Menschen zusammenlaufen, beindet sich die Praxis der Architektur in seiner bekannten Form. Somit wird der Verknüpfungspunkt der Architektur mit der Arbeit eines Architekten deiniert und bewertet. Wir werden diesen Verknüpfungspunkt in jedem der Orte deinieren und die gesetzlichen Vorschriften und Statuten der Vereine beurteilen, vorwiegend mit den Methoden der diskursiven und interpretierenden Analyse. Anschließend werden die Absichten der Führungspersonen in Interviews erschlossen. Die Befragung der Führungspersonen wird sich auf einen engen Bereich beschränken und die Fragen werden mit der Untersuchung der Vorschriften abgestimmt sein: Welche Absichten verfolgt (Ihre) Körperschaft und welche Erfolge hat sie gehabt? Diese Interviews werden uns implizite Nuancen und Handlungsvektoren aufzeigen, die Bewegung innerhalb der gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen und Vereinsstatuten bekunden, in denen Druck auch in festgefahrenen Situationen eine bestimmte Richtung erkennbar macht. Der produktive Bereich der Architektur, der der örtlichen Praxis zugrunde liegt wird in einem zweiteilige Ergebnis abgebildet. Diese Abbildung mittels eines individuell angepassten database tools stellt ein Werkzeug dar, ähnlich dem Ausfüllen einer Leinwand. Unsere Recherche wird beweisen, dass die Praxis der Architektur durch den Bezug zur Technik deiniert wird, und daher nicht maßgeblich ist. Unsere Annahme wird gefestigt durch den Beweis, dass die Technik in Vertretung verwendet wird. In Frageform ausgedrückt, enthält dieser Zustand seine (eigene) Aulösung. Diese Recherche wird eine Grundlage für gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Untersuchungen darstellen, wie auch für Bemuehungen innerhalb der Praxis, um ihre Relevanz und Wirksamkeit zu erhöhen. The Architectural Profession: Nexus of Deinition  Diagram 1. Three sources of data: the legal, the professional associations’ and the interview transcripts and recordings for, 2. each of seven venues. 3. The two documents types are analyzed. The analysis forms a connector between the data, and 4. the interviews. The document analysis is considered in terms of the interview, which forms a second connector. 5. The 7 venues are considered in two groups ( Austria/Germany + Britain/ USA/CAN/India/Japan). 5a. irst in terms of their current (globalized) interrelationship and including data for orientation of and 5b. the results for the individual venues. 6. Assessment and conclusions re: the hypothesis. The Architectural Profession: Nexus of Deinition  Literature List Christopher Alexander. The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Center for Environmental Structure Series, Vol. Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life, Book 2: The Process of Creating Life, Book 3: A Vision of a Living World, Book 4: The Luminous Ground Berkley CA, and Kettering, Great Britain: Center For Environmental Structure, 2002. Christopher Alexander, HansJoachim Neis, and Maggie Moore Alexander. The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems. 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