Giancarlo De Carlo’s Architecture’s
Public, goes into depth about how we as architects have strayed from our
role as a designer.
“Nothing new can happen in architecture which has not been
first invented and elaborated within architecture and in architecture’s own
terms. But this new occurrence, if it is really new, really projected towards
structural transformation, becomes the ‘material cause’ of the situation in
which it is placed…”
What I inferred from Carlo’s quote was that new architecture
can be developed and innovated on but
with precedent from the past. I agree that a designer needs to fully understand
the context and community for which they are designing is for. However, I
believe that within a designer’s role is to challenge and improve upon the
existing infrastructure and surroundings. While new architecture does stem from
what has already been built, it is up to our role as an architect to understand
where it is reasonable to push the boundary.
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