잘은 모르겠습니다만, 경제,경기,경영 그런것들에 대한 상황(상태)의  좋거나 그렇지 못함은 일상의 일이라 봅니다.
우리들 신체도 어떤때는 최상의(내적 외적 여러조건에 의해서) 건강상태에 있다가도, 감기에 걸리거나 그런 저런
사소한 질병으로 ,따라서, 치료기간이 필요한 주기적인 움직임을 보이니까요.

아래의 글들은 논점에 대한 여러 생각이 있을수 있으나, 건축이 언제 쉬울때가 있었느냐, 온 정열과 아이디어에 대한
논의,연구,탐구가 있어야 봄볕이 따사로울때, 꽃을 피울수 있다... 그런 이야기들을 피력해 놓은 것이라 봅니다.-mgh

Will the downturn be good for architectural creativity?

14 November 2008

'Yes'

Historically, there have been strong waves of creativity during times of less work. The next period will come to be seen like a boom in architecture.

During the seventies and eighties, people like Zaha Hadid, Peter Wilson and me didn’t know if we’d ever build anything. We explored ideas with groups of students. Hadid would not be where she is today if she had not committed to academia as a crucible for her ideas.

A lot of mediocre, looky-likey buildings have been built during the past decade which reinforce the idea of architecture as an unthinking mechanical process rather than a think zone.

In the seventies, there were only two or three practices of merit — architects like Cedric Price and James Stirling.

Now there are hundreds of practices that will do a concrete box with a picture window at the drop of a hat. It would be better if the commercial aspects of architecture were to subside in favour of the social and experimental.

The arts need to struggle a little in order to produce new ideas. There has to be a real determination to create architecture, not just to make formulaic buildings and run a practice. Inventive architecture is a means to bring creativity into society. Before it can be built, it has to exist in the mind and be tried in theory.

The Architectural Association, the Bartlett and the Royal College of Art are there to push the culture of architecture that bit further. The schools will be the place from which new ideas emerge.

'No'

Surpluses are the engines of culture. At the macro-level of world history, they allowed the specialisation of labour that led to urbanisation and the higher arts. In his brilliant book, Guns, Germs & Steel, Jared Diamond examines this and explains why it was Europeans who colonised the Americas rather than indigenous Americans who colonised Europe. Without surplus, creativity withers.

At the micro-level of this recession, most practising architects will be focused on paying their staff, rent and insurance premiums, not to mention their mortgages, unless they practice alone and are blessed with a private income or well paid teaching post.

However, the recession is also bad news for the dilettante. Architecture is the most public of the arts. Great buildings do not just emerge fully formed from the mind of a lonely genius struggling with inner demons. Individual sensibilities are tempered and enriched by disparate external forces. Architects who ignore this are playing roulette. A project may be built and accepted by society, but many more will remain unbuilt or unloved.

Architectural creativity should be seen as a turbulent cocktail focused on real situations encompassing economics, politics, psychology and technology, as well as the visual arts. That’s what makes this profession so challenging and rewarding. By removing many of these ingredients, a deep recession dilutes this brew, making its products less relevant.