New building designs to be or look like (Technology)
Industrial revolutions changes in every field in
different way, various in different period and level. For
construction, new materials have developed. The
industrial revolution brought in new construction and
IT technologies, improving quality, low labor demand
and increase the speed of construction. For example,
structural steel to replace masonry walls to hold up
the building load, prefabrication construction,
preserving natural materials such as timbers, making
of skyscrapers and vast improvement on
infrastructures. With the introduction of robotics, AI,
ICT in the current era, we are adapting in using
building information modelling (BIM), industrialized
building system (IBS) and modular construction and
using stimulation software to ease our work. Towards
robotic and cyber physical system era in 2050, the new
buildings will be not only a building, architect can
design it as a system to work together with the society
and surrounding. With the opinion that environmental
and social aspect will be the focus in following
industrial revolution, architecture might be a solution
to some of the social and environmental issue. More
customizable buildings are available due to the
advancement of technology. Spatial spaces emphasize
on fluidity due to the new economy. Purpose-built
structure might become obsolete due to the lifestyle
of the future human. In terms of technology,
architecture might depend on researches or scientist
to find a new material that might be the new game
changer just like how iron/steel were.
Architectural practice to sustain and survive
Architect, a profession that shapes lifestyle by
designing and construct building based on needs and
express human condition of its time. As an architect in
practice, the most basic to sustain its practice is to
design a user-sensitive and future-sustainable
buildings by being keen to the current situation in
both humanity development and latest environmental
issues. In the coming 30 years, the environment might
be getting worst, the new industrial revolution might
not be only focusing on cybernetic organism
technology, it will be taking environmental and social
into the scheme. To sustain, an architect should be
solved the problems with its practice. Moving towards
a world with full use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in
2050, building a strong foundation is important.
Before 2050 comes, the practice should be well
adapted and exposed with current technology such as
stimulation tools, cloud computing, building
information modelling, augmented reality and internet
of things (IoT). Besides that, I agreed with Thomas
Fisher that in 2050, polycultures practices will the new
trend in architecture firms, a diverse of consultant and
staff from wide range of backgrounds and fields are
needed. Architect are no longer the only builder,
ecology experts, material engineer, anthropologist, led
specialist etc. shall be involved to form a competitive
architecture firm.
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Architecture education to transform into (Pedagogy)
Education is modelled in the interests of the industrial
age and in the image of it (Ken Robinson). Follow
instructions and behaved, these are important values
for factory workers during the early stages of
industrial revolutions. Dramatic change into
collaborative education and value of interdisciplinary
and embracing ideas are adapted in higher education
during the third industrial revolution. This happens
because of the realization of the modern world that
encourages people to be creative, to communicate
their ideas and to collaborate with people. However,
preserve inauthentic learning which the content of
learning is tested in exams. Some unforeseen
condition such as pandemic accelerates the digitalized
educations, making everyone to think whether
classroom education is essential. Anyway, more
authentic learning is needed for long life learning. The
architecture pedagogy in the future (2050) should be
building passion, letting individual to be focusing on
and to be specialist on certain area. The education
should keep up with times, integrated with latest
technology like virtual reality, robotics and artificial
intelligent. In today’s education, students are
prepared for workplace, however, was not keeping
pace with technology advancement and some simply
focus on the technical aspect of architecture. In
adapting with new industrial revolution in 2050,
students are needed to inspire intellectual curiosity
first so that the practitioners can not only function
perfectly in current practice, he can be prepared and
survived for its own practice in the future as well.
Architecture in 2050
Will AI be replacing an architect?
We have realized how industrial revolution have
changed the way we live, work and learn by a few
decades.
Condition in Malaysia
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