INCHOATE AN EXPERIMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION
In the reading, Marc Angelil introduces the term Inchoate, meaning underdeveloped, into a dialogue discussing the prescribed implications of the teaching of architecture. He categorizes the present approach as an architectural strategy of 'domination' based on three premises; a visual preoccupation of an aesthetic appearance, the non-collective "notion of the architect as the sole agent of the work," and the fixation on the 'money shot.' To this, Angelil proposes a shift in the focus from the external condition to the internal constructs. Architecture should not be based on precedents, but rather on the constructs and processes outside of its prescribed realm.
[Sound familiar? This is the same proposal as SHoP Architect's principle of Versioning and Alejandro Zaera-Polo's argument in Roller Coaster Construction. It's like they are all reading each other's theories and reinterpreting them as their own. It is interesting to note that all of these authors share the same foundation that architectural form need not stem from precedent architecture form, but it seems they abandon that logic when it comes to developing architectural theory.]
By the new model, architecture involves "a deployment of means rather than conceiving design in terms of predetermined ends," in other words, experimentation rather than action based on 'established certainties.' This method operates on insecure ground because the end product and the processes to achieve it are unknown at the onset of design. However, as a result, the design process is strengthened by intuitive decisions rather than sole operation on known truths.
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