OK people the design is over, the sum of the workshop is that we can built anything. Thanks for attending, cookies and tee across the street, for anyone interested.

Both you and I know that the concept is everything when you initiate a project. It is the genesis…the birth of a structure, garment, furniture piece, art, photograph, whatever you want it to be.

If the concept is too much of something, it either ends there…it dies, or… it waits for someone who has the courage to accept a possible failure to have it executed.

I personally think that any design can be built. Not saying it will be aesthetically pleasing, nor 100 % functional, however, when someone looks at architecture as an art of colossal proportions, that’s where it is more appreciated, for its positive and negative critiques and reactions, its what makes a work memorable.

I mean, if we’re gonna end up talking about what is necessary and what isn’t, lets all become cavemen and just grab rock slabs to have seating, trees and branches for our roofs and leaves for softer surfaces. Art and architecture should never be categorized as different things that have nothing to do with each other… I always say, Art is the liberal free-form conceptual side of design, and design the technical side of art. They go hand in hand, they should, if not…we’d all be living in a veeeeery uncomfortable and boring world.

Then again…that’s the aesthetic of some architects now, I guess it should just be left as a personal taste matter…

-Jhonnatan, 20
Mexico

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Apart from that, I can recognize the two following realities. 1. Architecture is tied to the time, technicality, and resources factors that exist in the governing context.
2.It is a means to move the world forward.

Too much talk too little done.
It is Sunday everyone, go enjoy the sun ;)

Anyhow indeed Gerald, conservation under the terms you describe is a bad thing to do. Pardon me, the word should have been “renovate”. Misarticulations such as this come with the use of the second language.

The biggest energy and resource waster in most parts of the world is the existing urban fabric and the way we live in it. We need a hell of lot of intelligent design en mindset change to get us out of this mess. “Conservation” – meaning “no change” or “a stand still” – is the worst possible imaginable solution.

The mindset behind “generative and parametric design” is a understanding and acceptance of complex systems of “interrelationships” and “interdependencies”. Key know how for developing a sustainable future. Therefore the collective intuitive interest in “complexity”.