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Fredag 23. juni 2006 skal sivilarkitekt Thomas McQuillan, stipendiat ved Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo, forsvare sin doktorgradsavhandling "Edouard among the Machines – a discussion of Le Corbusier’s technological agenda".
19. juni 2006
Dagen starter med prøveforelsening kl 10, mens selve disputasen tar til kl 12.30.
Om avhandlingen heter det:
– As contemporary culture becomes increasingly permeated with the production and use of technologies, architecture has become progressively divided; on one side, a technical infrastructure of innovation, regulation and production affect every stage and component
of building; on the other, social and phenomenological care seeks to preserve its domain of meaning within the lifeworld of the inhabitants for whom architecture is intended. While from theoretical perspective, the division between technology and significance is heuristically
useful, within the lived space of the built artifact it can be detrimentally artificial. In practice, technologies and the search for a significance in creation coexist productively, if without explicit
guidance. In a very real way, architecture is a technology of significance, and the synthetic relation between the two terms is a precondition for its ultimate success. As such, it is important to discuss more fully the meaningful aspect of technology, and the technical aspect of meaning.
This study, then, attempts to place these terms into mutual engagement, and to discuss the architectural implications of this resultant continuum. Working from an in-depth study of Le Corbusier’s conception of technology in architecture, McQuillan addresses the complexity of
this conception and its far-reaching consequences for both Le Corbusier’s canonic work and his personal life. The study is based in an exploration of three seminal projects that Le Corbusier built for himself and his closest family: his own apartment in Paris on rue Nungesser et Coli, the Petite maison that he built for his parents on the shore of Lac Leman, and the Cabanon, the tiny rustic retreat constructed for himself and his wife at Cap Martin. Le Corbusier famously claimed that architecture should be thought from the inside out, like the way he imagined all biology developed. In this study of his use and misuse of technology as a founding element of architecture, McQuillan attempts to read his work in the same way: from within to without – from life to artifact.
Seremonimester er dr. Johnny Aspen, mens professor Caroline Constant og dr. Tanis Hinchcliffe er henholdsvis først- og annenopponent.
For fullstendig program, se vedlegg, høyre spalte.
Om avhandlingen heter det:
– As contemporary culture becomes increasingly permeated with the production and use of technologies, architecture has become progressively divided; on one side, a technical infrastructure of innovation, regulation and production affect every stage and component
of building; on the other, social and phenomenological care seeks to preserve its domain of meaning within the lifeworld of the inhabitants for whom architecture is intended. While from theoretical perspective, the division between technology and significance is heuristically
useful, within the lived space of the built artifact it can be detrimentally artificial. In practice, technologies and the search for a significance in creation coexist productively, if without explicit
guidance. In a very real way, architecture is a technology of significance, and the synthetic relation between the two terms is a precondition for its ultimate success. As such, it is important to discuss more fully the meaningful aspect of technology, and the technical aspect of meaning.
This study, then, attempts to place these terms into mutual engagement, and to discuss the architectural implications of this resultant continuum. Working from an in-depth study of Le Corbusier’s conception of technology in architecture, McQuillan addresses the complexity of
this conception and its far-reaching consequences for both Le Corbusier’s canonic work and his personal life. The study is based in an exploration of three seminal projects that Le Corbusier built for himself and his closest family: his own apartment in Paris on rue Nungesser et Coli, the Petite maison that he built for his parents on the shore of Lac Leman, and the Cabanon, the tiny rustic retreat constructed for himself and his wife at Cap Martin. Le Corbusier famously claimed that architecture should be thought from the inside out, like the way he imagined all biology developed. In this study of his use and misuse of technology as a founding element of architecture, McQuillan attempts to read his work in the same way: from within to without – from life to artifact.
Seremonimester er dr. Johnny Aspen, mens professor Caroline Constant og dr. Tanis Hinchcliffe er henholdsvis først- og annenopponent.
For fullstendig program, se vedlegg, høyre spalte.