Comments on: Letters from Chile – the House Building Gets Underway http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/13/letters-from-chile-the-house-building-gets-underway/ Permaculture News, Commentary and Worldwide Projects. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:34:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matty http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/13/letters-from-chile-the-house-building-gets-underway/#comment-47948 Matty Fri, 14 May 2010 01:49:42 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3087#comment-47948 Terrific pictorial. Craig you are prolific. Terrific pictorial. Craig you are prolific.

]]> By: Øyvind Holmstad http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/13/letters-from-chile-the-house-building-gets-underway/#comment-47934 Øyvind Holmstad Thu, 13 May 2010 16:41:34 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3087#comment-47934 “The obsolete 20th-century architect, making drawings, but otherwise standing outside the procurement process, might be compared to an (imaginary) designer of the moon-landing project in 1969 who might have said: “I am a designer. My job is to decide where on the moon we are going to land. How we get there is someone else’s problem, not very important.” The architect’s too-exclusive focus on the drawing as the architectural process is hardly less myopic. Such a definition confines the architect so narrowly, as to mace the architectural effort almost marginal. It all but ignores the architect’s love for buildings, and the necessity of involvement with craft, making, manufacturing, engineering, people, money, and public discussion. Yet architects did, in the late 20th century, steadfastly refuse to consider the procurement process at all, let alone to consider it as a single whole. They were rarely willing to consider procurement as an important theoretical and practical problem. And only very few were willing to get their hands dirty enough to get themselves involved in it.” The Process of Creating Life, by Christopher Alexander, page 552. It is so nice to see these architects not afraid of getting their hands dirty! “The obsolete 20th-century architect, making drawings, but otherwise standing outside the procurement process, might be compared to an (imaginary) designer of the moon-landing project in 1969 who might have said: “I am a designer. My job is to decide where on the moon we are going to land. How we get there is someone else’s problem, not very important.” The architect’s too-exclusive focus on the drawing as the architectural process is hardly less myopic. Such a definition confines the architect so narrowly, as to mace the architectural effort almost marginal. It all but ignores the architect’s love for buildings, and the necessity of involvement with craft, making, manufacturing, engineering, people, money, and public discussion.

Yet architects did, in the late 20th century, steadfastly refuse to consider the procurement process at all, let alone to consider it as a single whole. They were rarely willing to consider procurement as an important theoretical and practical problem. And only very few were willing to get their hands dirty enough to get themselves involved in it.”

The Process of Creating Life, by Christopher Alexander, page 552.

It is so nice to see these architects not afraid of getting their hands dirty!

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