Contemporary Techniques in Architecture
Alejandro, Zeara-Polo

 "This is whe amateurs have an advantage over pros. a pro knows what he can deliver and rarely goes beyond it. An amateur has no concept of his limitations ad generally goes beyond them".  Trey Gunn. Road Diaries

"The concept of architectural services derives from the interaction between architectural technology and effect"

Architects have been hindered by creative mobility.  Forced into a chasm of practice based around limited tools, budget, time, and responsibility, the architect has long since forgotten about creativity.  The quote "there is enormous potential yet to be discovered in the techniques of architectural services that have not yet been exploited.  For example, project management, estimation, surveys, and the modeling capacity of artificial intelligence.  None of these has yet been integrated in the discipline of architecture" resonates with the frustrations of contemporary practice.  The forthcoming BIM revolution has once again created the opportunity to allow the architect to become the master builder, a controller of the process.  The new tools of investigation; dynamic parametric modeling, database management and communication advances can allow the architect to redefine his or her practice, yielding a new form based on the process. 

Form becoming re-constrained to the software development and analysis. 

The work of Bjorke Ingles Group, as a body, is a collection of massifistations which speaks to this new process.  By seeing and manipulating site, solar and programmatic constraints, there architecture is evidence of a new architectural form, highly localized, yet unified.  There work is dependent upon innovations in computer visualization, which allows the designer to perceive and resolve problems that were previously undetectable in a planar, drawing based design process. 

Figure Shown: Courtyard, 8 Housing BIG.        http://www.big.dk/