Architecture and the question of Technology

Creativity as the inner inspiration to bring new forms- forms of thinking or even concrete ones- has pushed people with the possession of this will to bring new concepts or things (objects) that later became the possession of everyone. Different from this inner will, that doesn’t necessary have to be will, technology brings to us what we really need in the sense of functionality, even though the level of luxury in this possession is to be discussed. What creativity and an invention have in common seem to be in some kind of way the process of thinking or originating idea that the two ought to have. Changes in the basic concept divide these two as the background suggests for inventions that will accomplish the will, but in the other hand art in itself, closely related to creativity, isn’t something that comes from need, rather than the desire, even though the background still plays a role.

Knowledge in hands of the one who has the idea to bring something different that will change the conception of a general idea based on what we already have, is power that brings the change. Other possibilities in the way of how things could work is starting point for new inventions to rise and technology to take higher steps in its way of evolving and going closer to the state of perfection or full accomplish of the need. Greeks explain that art originates in techne, which is a knowledge related to making or even a combination of a spontaneous knowledge and an intuitive skill. Most of the knowledge is accumulated from experience but the knowledge itself can reach a high level that can be tough later on. Also for the Greeks, this knowledge of such a high level it is called mathema and it is mathematic a special for of such a knowledge that turns techne into technique and then into the modern technology. Such a reference to the old philosophy of the Greeks appears for techne to be thought as a power of nature, possessed only to a limited extent from humans, but still in concept it seems to be part of the process into bringing things into generated forms, by thinking for it as art itself.

Living in a world that has passed through a lot, experience has brought to us infinite generated forms of making, but still art the ones who make it have the ability to recreate the world where we live in in a more exciting point of view. Not only creating a new order of making but even manipulating an existing order as that of cosmos. By this I do not refer to the traditional rituals of the early existence periods, but the basic cultural traditions of a region, and the one who does it properly must be aware of the fact that posses the power of applying a great influence.

Technology on the other hand has taken as reference the movements of the body and has thought of ways to make the process of some king of some kind of physical activity easier so that the man will be able to only control a machine and have the same result, or even a better one, for less effort and less time.

Describing architecture we refer to it as art and science. Art, for the esthetic values that a work owns and science for the scientific proofs that must be based on. An architectural work goes through the process that has a base point a moment of inspiration, craved from creativity, a process that generates a ‘’product’’ that also has on its early stages of making an idea that has to be proved from scientific references. A reasoning stays behind the whole thing, being this from a personal point of view and even a scientific approach as well. As Greeks said, but even from what we ca say now mathematic and possessed technology set limits to the no-boundary creativity. Going back to the starting point, need for something different from what we have may lead to the beginning of a new idea as well. What architects offer is new reality that may seem out of perception at first but is brought into reality similar to the wide variety of technology that we know own but didn’t seem believable ate first as well.