Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Lo-fi Architect

Lo-fi architecture is a term drawn in Ch 8 from Jeremy Till's book "Architecture Depends" published in 2009, MIT.

"Lo-fi architecture thus asks the architect to design to their highest ability and, at the same time, be acutely conscious of the conditions which that design will finally encounter." (p.137)

Till urges the necessity that "lo-fi architect" becomes "precise and creative" and importantly "prescient" - ذو بصيرة - about where and how that work will be played out. S/he must be more real about the means of its transmission and reception, as well as combining it with a political ambition. The lo-fi architect must interplay the "contingent presences" as part of his/her work.

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