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BUSINESS
Charles Eamus's Case Study House #8 puts and end to the series of argument regarding the ideal way of practicing architecture. William Morris, Jean Prouve, and Pierre Chareau are the precedents of Charles Eamus who insisted the importance of being able to provide method and means of construction. They pursuit it not through a theoretical idealism, but through each practical business model.
TECHNOLOGY
Tom Wiscombe's Dragonfly is a highly sophisticated installation whose process -from morphology through engineering to fabrication- employed the multiple advanced softwares. The project is an experiment on design sensibility, engineering innovation, and fabrication logic in a contemporary digital environment where these disciplines have become enmeshed like never before.TECHNOLOGY
Recently completed Kieran Timberlake's Loblolly House is an recognized example of taking advantages of BIM softwares for a small scale project. Not because simply inspired by the current technologies, a desire of architects to better understand the building and its elements led to the application of BIM as a tool for the design, development, fabrication, and assembly of the house.
BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY
Najarian Residence that Steven Institute of technology was involved is an example where the usage of available digital technology links directly to an interesting business scheme. Although developer-involved project initiated the top-down strategy, Najarian Residence is one of the first example where tempting and reckless usage of BIM software came true.
BUSINESS / STRATEGY
In 1999, FOBA (Katsu Umebayashi) established a subsidiary company to provide an alternative housing “brand”: FOB Homes, because of which FOBA came to be recognized as pre-fab practitioners even though their proposal was rather spatial and aesthetic concepts. FOB Homes Typologies is an interesting example of architectural practice where architect sells sets of strategy as products.
STRATEGY
Hitoshi Abe's Kanno Museum is an example of interesting rule-based architecture although he doesn't intend to implant the project on different sites. Not only the strategy itself, the challenging form as a result became possible with the usage of multiple softwares. Details of the project as well worth attention in that Hitoshi Abe, as a designer, provided the method and means of construction.
STRATEGY / AESTHETICS
Ray Kappe's Kappe Residence is a complete example of integrating structural strategy and sensible outcome. His tactics are efficient and convincing, at the same time, his care and attention to each project is deeply profound. People see comprehensive theme throughout Ray Kappe's different projects, yet any one of those projects seems complete and well crafted specifically for a certain site and clients.
AESTHETICS
Tokujin Yoshioka's House Moving Project is an interesting example where the hierarchy of the structure and design elements is reversed in terms of driving and driven relationships. Components of the old structure is kept to initiate the design of the new house. Through the process of literally moving a house, beautiful Japanese woodworks are to remain and establish a story and grammar of the new space.
