We've been discussing about the technology and the impact it has on architecture for some time now .The text begins with a fact that is already known:”Technology is becoming more and more part of our lives and debates about this come up”.Handmade things are replaced by mechanisms that do everything automatically. Technological development has been defined by authors as a ”mission”,and I found it interesting.
Another interesting idea that grabbed my attention, as I read the text, was that of the man who finds himself the captain of the boat he has built himself, and with a compass that doesn’t show the north, but is directed by himself.I think the author with this meant to imply that the development of technology gives the human being the possibility to control everything and to feel the god of everything.Thequestion that arose from this was: ”But is the man controlling technology or technology
It should be said that the desire and thirst for knowledge was not well received initially in human society.For example, the Greeks found it difficult to decide between the “mysterious” way in which things happened in nature and between being able to control these things.Atthat time, people who possessed knowledge were condemned to death as they considered a threat to the existing power that preached the religion.A good example for this is that of Galileo Galilee. On July 3, 1633, he was severely accused by churches who thought he was saying things against the church. He was accused of saying that the earth behaved around the sun and at the end of this charge he replied “However, it is rotated!”
The authors equate the technology with art which for me is somewhat paradoxical because it is like balancing the concrete with the abstract.But they have an explanation for even for this.They explain this with a single sentence: Both art and technology are imitation of nature. Below they write that the cosmos itself is an imitation of something.This is the same with the idea and thought of Plato about art.
According to the authors as in nature and art (techno) processes are developed.Theseprocesses take place in several phases until the final product. Anyway Artoolli says:”Art is a chance and there are some divine things that intelligence and human knowledge can not control.”
Initially was used the term ”mechanical”.Only in the work of the engineers of Alexandria is seen the use of the ”technique”.Even here it said that the circular movement is not purely mechanical, but it is an imitation of celestial motion.
The sciences that contributed to the formation of modern technique and technology were mainly: astronomy, optics and mechanics.Thedevelopment of these sciences has made possible the meaning and perception of the Perspective which we as architects are interested on.If we consider how perspectives and mechanics are really practiced and not just how they appear in textbooks, we can see them as art, deeply influenced and informed by science.
I would like also to point out the Decsartes words:”The ability to imagine brings development”.
Technology just like in every other field of life has helped in architecture as well.General structures that can be considered as an engineering problem and can be solved by the use of mechanisms can be seen as good examples.
From the comparison between art and technology we understood once again that architecture is the art and science at the same time.And also I understood that architecture is a process which can not be completed without the help of imagination.
Another interesting idea that grabbed my attention, as I read the text, was that of the man who finds himself the captain of the boat he has built himself, and with a compass that doesn’t show the north, but is directed by himself.I think the author with this meant to imply that the development of technology gives the human being the possibility to control everything and to feel the god of everything.Thequestion that arose from this was: ”But is the man controlling technology or technology
It should be said that the desire and thirst for knowledge was not well received initially in human society.For example, the Greeks found it difficult to decide between the “mysterious” way in which things happened in nature and between being able to control these things.Atthat time, people who possessed knowledge were condemned to death as they considered a threat to the existing power that preached the religion.A good example for this is that of Galileo Galilee. On July 3, 1633, he was severely accused by churches who thought he was saying things against the church. He was accused of saying that the earth behaved around the sun and at the end of this charge he replied “However, it is rotated!”
The authors equate the technology with art which for me is somewhat paradoxical because it is like balancing the concrete with the abstract.But they have an explanation for even for this.They explain this with a single sentence: Both art and technology are imitation of nature. Below they write that the cosmos itself is an imitation of something.This is the same with the idea and thought of Plato about art.
According to the authors as in nature and art (techno) processes are developed.Theseprocesses take place in several phases until the final product. Anyway Artoolli says:”Art is a chance and there are some divine things that intelligence and human knowledge can not control.”
Initially was used the term ”mechanical”.Only in the work of the engineers of Alexandria is seen the use of the ”technique”.Even here it said that the circular movement is not purely mechanical, but it is an imitation of celestial motion.
The sciences that contributed to the formation of modern technique and technology were mainly: astronomy, optics and mechanics.Thedevelopment of these sciences has made possible the meaning and perception of the Perspective which we as architects are interested on.If we consider how perspectives and mechanics are really practiced and not just how they appear in textbooks, we can see them as art, deeply influenced and informed by science.
I would like also to point out the Decsartes words:”The ability to imagine brings development”.
Technology just like in every other field of life has helped in architecture as well.General structures that can be considered as an engineering problem and can be solved by the use of mechanisms can be seen as good examples.
From the comparison between art and technology we understood once again that architecture is the art and science at the same time.And also I understood that architecture is a process which can not be completed without the help of imagination.
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