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page183from Nordic Architects Writes
1995 Markku Komonen
Construction, Technology and Art
Why did I choose a subject and a viewpoint
like this at a time when the operational requirements for architects have
deteriorated to the point of collapse, and the whole field of design and
construction seems to be metamorphosing into a form where the synergy of forces
that architecture demands can no longer materialize? Perhaps it is at just such
a turning point that we should examine the fundamental issue facing the
profession.
The
essence of our profession I written in its Greek name Arkkitekton. Woven
together in it is a double imperative of quality and construction, art and
technology. At a lecture he gave at the centenary celebrations of Helsinki
University of Technology in 1949, the famous Frenchman August Perret described
the architect as a poet who thinks and speaks in terms of construction. According
to his strict canon, the architect who hides a load-bearing column makes a
mistake, but the architect who constructs a false column commits a crime. He
also emphasized that requirements that are affected by nature are permanent,
but requirements that are affected by humans are temporary.
A
method of building, a flash of technical inspiration, has often meant a direct
point of departure for architects. We all know the architectural chain of
events set off by the invention of vaulting, for example. Massive logs and the
skillfully made joints that held them together formed the structural basis for
a rich architectural tradition much closer to home.
Quite
apart from structural solutions, other technical innovations have often formed
a direct point of departure for architects, too. The Eskimo igloo is a small
dwelling heated and lit by small whale-oil lamps, which together with its
complex entrance arrangements forms an efficient device for combating the cold.
The traditional buildings of the hot desert areas of the Sahara and the Middle
East consist of ventilation systems designed to catch the breeze, in which the
entire spatial arrangement combined with special structural solutions promote
the flow of a cooling stream of air. In ancient Indian architecture, there are
efficient cooling systems based on the evaporation of water connected with the
function of pools of water used in religious rituals. Not all traditional
building has been exemplary from the technical point of view, but the history
of architecture offers use plenty of evidence of the skill of combining
materials, construction and spatial arrangements into a whole package which
responds inventively to the demands of climate, landscape and way of life.
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