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Architecture and love

2001· article· en· W2280705772 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Marcin Mateusz Kołakowski

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VenueLincoln Repository (University of Lincoln) · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicArchitecture and Cultural Influences
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMainstreamArchitecturePopularityMeaning (existential)BureaucracyProduct (mathematics)Quarter (Canadian coin)AestheticsMedia studiesBusinessSociologyPolitical scienceHistoryArtLawVisual artsPoliticsEpistemologyPhilosophy
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Abstract

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INAUGURATION OF A SERIES: ARCHITECTURE AND LOVE
\nWhy is architectural mainstream so insignificant?
\nThe mainstream of architecture is being shown ad nauseam in hundreds of magazines all over the world. Every week, every month, every quarter, the same names are being juggled, so that you want to call it pop archi¬tecture, while famous design factories keep on degenerat¬ing as they gain in size and popularity and put on layer upon layer of bureaucracy. They are becoming self-emu¬lating and backward. The mechanism is evident. The bigger the practice, the bigger the money. The more busi¬ness, the less architecture. Why? Because whoever draws from the system will be the least interested in changing the system, even if it is bad... because it is not bad for him. Even where we are dealing with an environmental hazard or where new solutions are necessary y– what is being promoted is make-believe changes, catering to current fashion. A celebrated architect who is standing before the gates of a large bank will cater to any request. He or she is an in¬telligent person and will be able to justify his or her new product with a glib essay.
\nThe reason behind the popularity of High-Tech (and behind draping buildings with technological novelties like with some jewellery) is the general strive for the prestigious visual effect. Large organisations are usually those that make a living by effectively convincing people that you cannot be 'at the top' without technological novelties, meaning: you cannot grow, ergo you probably cannot exist. This huge lie of today has become the oblig¬atory myth. We see great mainstream architects promote anonymity, neutrality, metal, aseptic cleanliness, inhu¬man accuracy—all the characteristics of administrative technocracy. No matter how hard the High-Tech artists try to pretend concern about the natural environment, they won't be able to conceal the fact that they are the lackeys of the manufacturing industry that is destroying that environment.
\nThere is yet another direction, often presented in trade publications. Those are the people who are not trying to imitate anyone, to kiss up to bankers, but rather want to set an example. They refer their exploration to what is alive – man or nature – rather than what is dead, i.e. money and technology. Thus, it is possible to apply Erich Fromm's distinction between biophilia and necrophilia to architecture.
\nThis is a start of a series of articles presenting the Low-Tech style. Low-Tech architects are trying to offer a humanist alternative to the overtechnologised modern architecture. We would like to present the artists and the institutions experimenting with low-budget, low-energy, sustainable technologies and materials—people aware that architecture is shouldering the burden of social re¬sponsibility.
\nIn Low-Tech, independence from the manufacturing industry is coupled with a high level of reason, creativity and emotional involvement.
\nArchitecture and Love – isn't this the very essence of our profession?

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.943
Threshold uncertainty score0.644

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.172
Teacher spread0.161 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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