Despite the rubric under which I’ve been posting notes about my academic work, it’s worth noting how integral these practices are. Research, analysis, interpretation, teaching and design are facets of a single disciplinary stance toward addressing the world’s needs.
Vittorio Gregotti, the brilliant architect whose work includes design (at a number of scales), historical research, theoretical speculation, publishing and teaching, argues that, “for an architect to edit a magazine, like teaching, or participating in public debates, is a way of cultivating theoretical reflection, not as a separate activity, but as an indispensable part of design craft. Indeed, theory and history have been and still are, two important constituents of design, at least for my generation.”
I agree.
[Vittorio Gregotti, “The Necessity of Theory,” Casabella 494, 1983, quoted in Kate Nesbitt, Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture, p.23.]
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