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    | tondon He has bean auto pred in Aros, ape 1067 aT Typology and Design Method * lae%) ‘jar Coluhoun isan architect in practice n_ During the lt fow years a zreat deal ot the AA Sehoal, —_atlontion hes Been given fothe problem of ‘aon: es wellas teaching et Princeton and dasign methodology, and te process of errage Universes, Atprzenthe isa sign as abranchl the wider procese {ating roleasor at Comet. This artele ret Stproblem acing. Many peopl belove, not without reason th the inutive methods of dsign tadionaly Used by architects are inceoeble of dealng ‘nth ho compleny of tne probloms tobe Solved, and tat without sharper oats of tna)ysie and clasateton the designer tends {oval back on proveus examples forthe luton of nw problems on type solitons, ne of the designare ang educators who has ‘eon consistently prooecupled by this oblom ie Tomas Maldonedo. Ata recent sina at Princeton Unverty, Maldonado ‘mite tet in cesos wher was not possible to claselly avery cbsorvabl sty Ir anarchiectuel srogreme, might be + mosossary to use a typology of arentectoral forme in arderto arte att solution. But he faded tna thee forme wor ike cancer In the body ofthe solution, ard that as our techniques af clasaieaton Become more ‘pstomatit should be poste to eliminate ‘om atogeter. Now ts my bli! hatboroath to apparent Dbjetity of these idee here les an festhtic doctrine wil the purposo of {hepaper to enow thin too he case, and, furtor tty and show that tis unter without eonaderable moatleation. (ne of the most roquont uments used ‘gsinat typological procecures in architecture fas boon tat hey aro a vestige of an age of ‘raft ie held that the Use model by frattimon became loss necessary ‘evelopment of seintficechnigues onabled man to dlacovar the general laws underlying Thotechnica oluone of he produit age, he ve 'ssionee”cortalny Ind valid dlatineton to 99 dravn Detwoen atects That ee the result! the application of he Tans of natural clence and those which are tha result of meas’ and inullon. Bofors the ee of modem slonce, Wacivon, habit fad Imitation were the me-bods by which all ‘Tifects wera mada, wheter ose We ‘meliy utilitarian 9 main rligiows. The (tord “art” wos sed to casero te sl Mocessary to produce all tue artifacts With {he development of madem seianco, the word rar was progressively rested tothe case of artacts which ig not depend on he law n ‘of natural science, but continued tobe based fn tradiion and ha idea a! the final form of work aaa xed Iso ‘But thie stnction ignores the extent to ‘ahienarfacta have not oniy 8 "088" value in the erudest sense, but aso an "oxchange” valu “The eraftsman hed an image of he object in hismine's eye when staring to rake ‘Whethor hia objoct was a cult image (say @ ‘cuipture) or aitchon ute, twas an Sbject of Cultural exchango, and formed partol a aystom of conmunicatons within {octey. ie "mossage” value was embodied precios ne image of te na form whieh ‘rateman held nbs mind’s eye ne he Was ‘making lana to which his aract ‘Corresponded a nes a¢ poesia. In ste ‘ofthe development of the scion method ‘le must ail atrauleaueh socal ertoontc ‘aivos tothe products a eernology, and Facognise tht they play an eesentat cle n the ganaraion and development ofthe our environmen Ws ey of arifacte which continde tobe mace according to to tradilonal mmathods (for example paintings or musical {Compositions} have a predominant Teonio purpose, butsuch a purpose snot oo oft Fecognised inthe creation ofthe anviranment nol, Ths facts concealed tom va ®t Intentions of he design process fro "hidden” inthe oven otal of| Pertormance specteaton The idalization of “primitive” man, and the {Undarnntaist studs which his generated has eacouragea th eeceptance of uch Toone vsivea Tore hes boon a fondoney ‘ince the eighteenth eantry to look onthe lage prmiive man sea aor of olden age Inwhieh men ved close to nature. For many years, for stance, primtve hut or oneot Isdatiatives nas boon taxen as the starting point for atchitetural evolution, and has boon {he subject oft year design programmes, tnd t would nt bean exaggeration sy thatfrequentya alee lin of aescont presumed to exit from the noble savage, through the ullitarlan craft to madarm sclenee ad technology. The whole edifice ot far ceraily since tho an of to mediagvel oroa is oton thought to be corrupt ana Unnatural and based on some sophisticated "horror vicu” or the need to aggranclze a ruling els. nso far as tis basog onthe Idee ofthe noble savage his notion is quite baseless. Te cosmological systems of primitive man were ver intllctval and very Entei, To take only Knahip systems, the following quotation rom Cauge Lev Strauss ‘wi make tho pont clear: "Geraly” he naar m ewe eee eS eS ee ee ee = eae eee eee ee ee ee ee ‘say, "the bilogieal familys present and Dersatsn human soc. Bt wha gives to kinship hz charactor as a soca faci nt wat it mst conserve of natu: tho ‘sential step by which i soparatas tat! from nature eystar of Kinship dows not oraistot objective blood test exes ony Inthe consciousness of men isan arsitrary {system of rpreseniations, not the spontaneccs developmen of sation of fet" ‘There seoms tobe z clos parallel botwoon uch systems and the way mogem man til spproaches the wold, and what was tv of primitive man in ll te raiiations of his Practical and emotional fe nmaly the ‘eed to represent te phenomenal word in Such away thtitbecames a coherent snd {ogleal ysiom ~periate in our ow ‘organisations, and more pariculry In our ittude towards tho man-made objects of cur ‘envronmont. ‘An oxamplo of th way his appli ‘contemporary man sn the creation of what fro called soclo-apatial chomata. Our sense {place and relationship in, aay,an urban ‘environment or ina bulding, er not ‘Sependenton sa objctive fact thats imeasuaa: ty ae poromana The, purpose ofthe wosthotle organisation of ur ‘avronment so capitalise on is oubletive ‘schematization, endmake eocaly, valle. The resulting organisation does ot orrespond n a one-to-one rlationahip wih tho objective facta but ean arta onstrut which reprasonts thee fact In a ‘socially recognise way fotos thatthe presentations ystoms ‘ahich are developed re, in Independent of the quantiabi acs ofthe ‘environment. ‘Nosystom of representation, no meta language, Nowover, etal Independent of tho facta which conettute the objective word. ‘Te modern movement in architoctre was an tempt to modi the representational Systems whlen had boon inverted om the Dresindusva pat. and which no longee ‘Seemad opera within tne content 9 & Faplaly changing technology. One of the maln Ssetrinas atthe rot ofthis vanstormation Was based essary ona atu to nature,

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