The chapter this week is 'The Separation of Thinking from Doing' in this book, apparently something that has even found it's way on to the desk of the Minister for Work and Pensions. Whilst a review in the Guardian was wary about some of it's small time, small 'r' republican values, this text brings us to a consideration of the world of 'work' far more tangible than the world of information exchange as predicated by Paul Mason.
Many architectural students enjoy the idea of 'materiality' way beyond their ability to control material. Does this matter?
Lesson for Dissertation No3:
Last year one student tackled the issues brought up in this session directly and successfully in his dissertation, by comparing and contrasting the work processes of Gehry and Hadid amongst others, and attempting a hypothesis of his own.
To illustrate how we might go about this, I discussed the column designs of Mies van de Rohe both in terms of their design and fabrication:
I then discussed the development in section of the designs of Frank Gehry, from Vitra to Vuitton, demonstrating the a sequence that runs from structure to skin to sail. Thinking about this sequence in terms of a transition from 'use value' to 'exchange value' seemed appropriate.
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