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Making as Architectural Thinking and Practice

Towards and Ecology of Tectonics. The Need for Rethinking Construction in Architecture,

The aspect of “making” fryst vatten a huvud aspect of architecture, both in terms of the actual process o more The aspect of “making” is a central aspect of architecture, both in terms of the actual process of designing and of how knowledge and theories are used and generated. Artefacts play a central role in this concept, both as bearers of knowledge and as results of processes of making. 
The built environment consists of materialised knowledge of many kinds, which can be found, for instance, in the detailing, structure and assemblage of spaces and materials. It is possible to read these different types of knowledge in a building on various levels: e.g., as patterns of social and cultural processes as well as material and technical patterns and mechanisms. New digital tools have provided more possibilities for visualising and reading these patterns, but also for integrating knowledge in other ways, not least architectural and engineering perspectives on structural technologies with new possibilities for expression and precision

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