Picon’s ‘A Different Materiality’, explores the concept of
materiality and how it applies to the nature of the environment as it surrounds
us as people, thus being essential with regard to materiality. He focuses on
the First Industrial Revolution when analyzing materiality as a concept, he
says it cycles back to the natural human material structure. He questions the
way we perceive materials, which is what materiality is about.
In addition, Picon also shares his opinion on the impact of
technology on architecture in his article, ‘Architecture and the Virtual’. He
says it has helped advance architectural design and made it more mature, he
believes that architecture is still yet to discover everything about design and
effective usage of certain objects and plans. He discusses the usage of hand
drawings and CAD and metaphorically compares to the difference between walking
and using cars. He uses the car to demonstrate the pace of technology
advancements and ability to easily create better designs, as well as how simple
it is to pick up by architects. He claims “Rather than dematerializing the
world we inhabit, the automobile has instead transformed our notion of
materiality”, meaning that technology has had a positive impact on society,
improving quality of life.
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