Architecture

Introduction

Architecture, a profession of designing buildings, open areas and some other artificial constructions incorporating some aesthetic effects. Usually this profession usually fits to be tricky in matters of   consumption of the end results of what the user wanted and what the architect has delivered. As a requirement of the profession, the architect makes sure that he presents the design to the user before the real output creation process begins (McCarthy, 78). As a result, the designs and the real objects have continuously been viewed differently by the users. Therefore, other key influencing factors as to what shall happen to the building after it completion will go a long way into determining whether the design was complete when the architect went home (Stiglitz, 56).

When the architect goes home are the buildings complete?

Occupations address the correct number without more ado understandable line of attack in which architecture is consumed:  all the way through consuming and by its users. Commencing from office, to industrial unit, to training institutions, colleges and universities, the majority of the works of architect barely subsist in the array to be engaged and used by inhabitants; nevertheless, this piece of the observation of the essay in particular focuses in the lead of the accommodation and the occupation of the home which are the result of the architectural designs. This is for the reason that the abode is the centre of the largest part people’s concern. From the structural design, wherever they put in the most moment in time. They have a valid judgment of possession and articulate their intelligence of distinctiveness; somewhere they have your home and construct a not public space. In 1986, Arjun Appadurai released in print influential work, in the discipline of anthropology, by the title of The Social Life of Things. Within this exertion, he set to the for the case with the intention of substance encompass societal lives, in the identical means to facilitate humans and other living beings do. All the way through their survival, commencing from their initiation all the way to their definitive obliteration, bits and pieces set off from side to side an assortment of living phases. At the equivalent time, as such utilization in the course of occupation is made-up to not be seen as an inert, or possibly still off-putting, development with the aim of taking place after the resourceful design progression is absolute.

To a certain extent, it is a well-to-do, multifaceted and incessantly wide-ranging resourceful course of action that continues to revolutionize, familiarize with and change buildings all the way through their natural life. This be capable of leading to apprehension involving the architect’s analysis of their toil as an art-object, and that of a construction or habitat owner’s analysis of it as theirs. They build to act in response to their desires and are able to express across their view of themselves. The inspection of this apprehension is the filament that links the dissimilar case studies and voices encountered in this foremost component on Occupations; again starting from the designing studios the consumption in a way that it is situated as a social activity. Leading to the consumption of these designs to be an everyday activity of the inhabitants concerned with work of  the professional after he has gone home. However, it of importance noting that the criticism or the evaluation the bit and pieces brought together by the professionals as only a matter of them alone. The inhabitants or the desired occupants have a role in this evaluation of the architectural effects. Since in the process of consuming these designs, certain effects come into play affecting the credibility of the designs, for instance, the actions or deeds of the occupants that are met on the buildings they wear out or they depreciation, changing of certain features on the end products or modification to suit certain desires and preferences that may not have been captured by the architect (Till, 67). In addition, the dispose of all readymade material by  the consumer may be after the life span considered to be for the object. All these observations are key to the architect and to the architectural design student.

Consuming the designs of architecture is of divergent approaches considering the context of the other related works of similar themes. For example, as to what shall happen to the buildings after the work of construction has finally come to completion. The concern will be if the production process will have impacts on the economic and politics themes if that is what the objects were intended for. When the construction and before that the designing process of the whole project. The projects or designs such as the shopping malls, hypermarkets and monuments that are supposed to display political senescence of that regime that enacted the model is also a matter of significance to the architecture. Certain architectural writers have tried to build the desired architects through their works of writing. In as much as the writers insist or capitalize on the architecture student to focus on the position of themselves as the users. This may not be quite attainable to levels of excellence. For example, when Till and Hill ask of the students to lay back and reflect by their own skill and maybe intuition on the environment. Considering the intended life span of the architectural designs from the angle of the material culture. Holding the bits and pieces that form the object and the users or the inhabitants and from the perspective of the producer. The material culture can be presented from the view of Daniel Miller (1995) who in his argument presents an engrossing observation. He put forth that by a consumer consuming what is produced this does set the culture as a dynamic process.

With the incorporation, of the human race plus their ever changing consumption patterns. Consumption is as contingent as to the manner in which the relation of the producer go or are linked to the social setting or the social relations. The process of consuming the architecture require of the professional in the field and the learning student to halt and look out to see the environment. To even visualize the ever busy lives of the architectural designs that do fit within multifaceted world. Also, considering how the architectural discourse do lie and relate to the other arguments concerning the broad variety of not architectural disciplines. However, there are contingencies in this discipline that are at a times beyond the architect being built or the professional. Fundamentally, taking into consideration those human beings who are set out to be the occupants of the end products of the production designs. At a more analysis of the human behavior, we know exceedingly well that they are one of the beings that are set to be none satisfied no matter what effort.  Their wants are insatiable always and would always desire more of an object especially after the thought that they have invested in so much. Looking on from this point of the non satisfaction nature of the human beings, this may be brought about by the fact that  consumers. Who mostly are persons longing objects that are not themselves. The bit and pieces in most scenarios are not themselves too. They are some other substitutes of some other objects or designs which are nowhere to be found.

The act of modeling, designing or making an object can be some sought of vagueness. Especially not forgetting that the architects in this case are trying to come up with some objects through the process of production which is all ready lost. The process of recapturing that object require lots of efforts and determination plus mounting of lots of pressures on the professional. Since even the consumer is not sure of the exact outcome and the intended desire, is what he or she is yearning for only to come out of the object. The issue is whether architects are professionals who are making objects unconsciously and deliver an end product. It is a debatable idea, and everyone has some flesh to his argument (Vittrup, 32). Therefore, I find it worthy that when the architect goes home he or she has completed the work of designing the building. I find it not withstanding to criticize this intelligence of working to give a consumer an end product even though the person was working unconsciously on a lost object. Or even if what the consumer wanted was only the product of his or her desire it is still what as a design the architect shall deliver. In this case, it also notable the architecture student is undergoing a rigorous educational training. That equips him or her to put the imaginative skills to better use when required doing so by the consumer.

Consumption of the buildings after the keys have been handed over

Consuming Architecture is hooked on three distinctive segments after handing over the keys to the consumer: Occupations, Appropriations and Interpretations. Each topic explains a diverse characteristic of the edifying consumption of architecture. The first topic that is occupations considers the lives of buildings commencing the point of view of bring into play, habitation and inhabitation. An occupation tries to answer the difficulty of architectural unforeseen event or how architects act in response; this can either be positively and negatively, to the consumption of their work by consumers or users of the objects (Blumay, 63). The second topic is concerned with appropriation. The largest part of architecture is without interest appropriated by means of its users and its forms and meanings shall as a result, be altered. Here, therefore, adding to the first segment of this essay that sought answer whether the building are ever complete by the time the architect goes home. Appropriation is certain particular agency as with reference to on purpose acts of material misappropriation.

Designed for unambiguous agenda-driven purposes artistic, culture dimensions, and political. Appropriations takes into account the consumption of architecture as an on purpose or maybe the bodily actions of resistance to the what is some sought of imposed order. This may be presented by the particular work of architecture to the different people. This acquire the custom, on an on a daily basis, in addition to at times not, deliberate, confrontation entrenched inside the tension connecting architects and tenants discussed in element solitary and adds target  what relations the dissimilar case studies and different voices discussed here is the deliberate, bodily captivating backside of lived room. Meant for Appropriations, life is not purely in relation to receiving on by means of it other than assembling a position. As construction, a point requires mutually an attentiveness of the state of affairs in which one lives and a yearning to remark in the lead them, the architectural appropriations discussed at this time are over and over again deliberately racially and/or politically dissident. Whether the English outer edge, the New York projects, a city square in London or the Czech Republic or an Indian hill-town. This is partly for the reason that numerous acts of obvious unlock substantial appropriation, whether artistic or political. They are metropolitan actions as the overcrowded city is a locus for activism in addition to turbulence. The city moreover provides both  the community and concealed places obligatory for the presentation or execution of unlike acts of rebellion.

The final part of the above mentioned three topics is the one that turns from the corporeal to the theoretical consumption of architecture from beginning to end its elucidation in other imaginative, artistic practices such as inscription, film, art, and architectural condemnation.  This is a significant characteristic of cultural utilization not normally well thought-out in conjunction with bodily acts of consumption. The desired  Interpretations also takes into account the understanding of architecture surrounded by the design development itself, subverting the time-line of construction and utilization, in the course of studies of the consumption of developing deep-seated practices in architectural illustration of the sketches and representation. The innermost filament to these concluding chapters is the comprehension that as it is ad infinitum interpreted, well thought of and make sure that there is full comprehension. Architecture is a profession or say a career wholly to architects for a remarkably little time, not only in material stipulations of occupation and appropriation. Plus the after finishing of the designs but also as a set of thoughts, themes and the available arguments (Hill, 46). Also, mentioning that interpretations assume divergent approaches from what seem direct or bodily relationships that the consumers develop with the objects. In this case, the objects may represent the buildings as it interpretation is extremely beneficial not only to the critics of the designs but also to the occupants. 

The mode used to represent the designs should take into account the ability of the reader or the observer to have a meaningful interpretation. For instance, the use of photography skills efficiently, the use of films by the film makers to have some representation of the design to aid a clear interpretation. This field is full of ever changing aspects meaning that due to changes in times the architecture re arms. The expansion too affects the interpretations whereby, as a student one find's that the number of artisans, film makers, photographers, the writers and the critics increases by the day. Making one realize that even the people learning to be part and parcel of the people that are consuming the architecture. Lastly from the above highlighted issues it is clear that there are only three ways or forms of consuming architecture; that is occupations, appropriations and the interpretations way.

Should architects consider   the lives of their buildings?

Architects should consider the lives of their buildings as a matter of fact it is one way in which they positively impact the lives of the occupants. When an architect develops a  building with a longer life it helps to attain a positive relationship between the professional and the client. As a result, when this client appreciates the efforts of the architect this will go a long way into appreciating the role that the building plays. It is therefore, an architect who is well led by the working ethics make sure that there is a long and efficient life of the building from his or her production process to the consumer. In addition, the object when it serves a better and efficient purpose may be serving the interest of the larger society. For example, if the building was one to serve as a school or church that is a noble task into serving the interest of the community as it rewards them for their investment due to longer life.

Another reason that may lead or influence the need of an architect to deliver a building with a longer life is from the fact that buildings are tangible. Consequently the client who in this case is the consumer has got in most part of their life expectancy to  watch more of the building. This may also influence other architectural designs later on in life to come. It therefore, sounds well to the architect when he or she sees years long after coming up with the designs other people have embraced that piece of design.

The intangible asset of the design leads me to the contribution of a long life on a building to the architect’s career. This will lead to the architect concerned to having a longer career since most of the populations will be interested in having the architect design more buildings. This leads to a more profitable career in architecture since the clients who come to him or her do the marketing and network for his or her designs.From the advantage of having a longer career, the architect will enjoy the benefits of a constantly evolving career. It is therefore, an opportunity to contribute or participate in the changing technology and programming. This is in line with the changes in taste and preferences of the consumer. Placing the profession of architecture as one career that is never static and the desire of the career person is not to wake up to a frustrating career day after day. Setting architecture as lifestyle and not a job as many would make it seem to look like (Certeau, 54).

Another way that they can consider to influence the life of the building is through assuming that they are the consumers. In doing so, this, helps to achieve an end product that when the architect is impressed and satisfied by the lifespan of the building. This is possible only if the architect position himself as the tenant of the product of his production.

A building with a longer life will earn the architect more respect from the people. It is of knowledge that architects are rare and therefore, they are treated with the utmost respect in the society today. This can either be attributed to their imaginative and intelligence skills which can first be illustrated through a film, photograph or other artistic impression (Brand, 97). Later on, all that is seen as real to what they had only conceptualized and put in a form of other simplistic form.

This can only be achieved through the architects firstly, receiving the needed training on how to help them put up their designs. It is the crucial one attends legal and regulated courses that shall lead to the acquisition of credentials that enable them (architects) perform to their best abilities.

Another way to achieve this is to have the architects be governed by a body of a professional who oversee this practice. This body will ensure that all the architects do operate under some code of ethics. Ensuring that the building being produced by the architects are of a longer life having taken into account all the needs of the clients (Appadurai, 86).

 In conclusion, it evident that this profession of architecture is one of the professions that is exceptionally dynamic and may also take part in preserving the culture of the people. Despite of the fact that it ever changing in terms of the appropriations, interpretations and the occupations.