CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

Definitions Of Architecture by Famous Architects

1. "Architecture is a way of seeing, thinking and questioning our world and our place in
it." - Thom Mayne in his Pritzker Prize Acceptance Speech

2. "Architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings
actually fit with the way we want to live our lives: the process of manifesting our
society into our physical world. - Bjarke Ingels in AD Interviews

3. "Architecture is full of romantics who think that even relatively small changes to the
built environment create the aspiration for a better society." - Mark
Wigley in Surface Magazine

4. "Architecture is an expression of values – the way we build is a reflection of the way

we live." - Norman Foster in The European

5. "Architecture is geometry." - Álvaro Siza in Imaginar a Evidência (Imagining

Evidence)

6. "Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who
practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich
the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstanding and provide a
beautiful context for life's drama." - Frank Gehry in his 1989 Pritzker Prize Ceremony
Speech

7. "Architecture is the starting point for anyone who wants to take humanity towards a
better future “. - Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris Better known as Le Corbusier

8. "Architecture is the only art that you can't help but feel. You can avoid paintings, you
can avoid music, and you can even avoid history. But good luck getting away from
architecture." - Philippe Daverio in Humans of New York

9. "Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't
read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a
hundred years." - Renzo Piano in Time

10. "Architecture is invention."- Oscar Niemeyer in Newsweek

Contemporary Architecture Samiya Tazeen

 Differentiation between Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary

interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary describe work that involves multiple separate

disciplines. Interdisciplinary work typically involves the linking or combination of two or
more fields of study to create a synthesized whole. Multidisciplinary work draws on the
knowledge from two or more fields of study as well but is often used to describe work in
which the boundaries of the disciplines involved are maintained.

INTERDISCIPLINARY

• combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study: The

economics and history departments are offering an interdisciplinary seminar on
Asia.
• combining or involving two or more professions, technologies, departments, or the
like, as in business or industry.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

• composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of

expertise: The journal's first article was a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.

1. Intradisciplinary: working within a single discipline.

e.g., Bachelor in computer science.

2. Crossdisciplinary: viewing one discipline from the perspective of another.

e.g., Computer Concepts from the perspective of Mathematics

theorem.

3. Multidisciplinary: people from different disciplines working together, each

drawing on their disciplinary knowledge.

e.g., Any big project with multiple aspect.

4. Interdisciplinary: integrating knowledge and methods from different

disciplines, using a real synthesis of approaches.

e.g., Study of population using ICT.

5. Transdisciplinary: creating an unity of intellectual frameworks beyond the

disciplinary perspectives.

e.g., integrating Population study outcome with the computer

graphics to obtain the real time analysis.

Contemporary Architecture Samiya Tazeen