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The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality: Architectural Design

The document discusses the issue of innovation in architecture. It suggests that innovation is often framed in economic terms but should be understood as an emergent and collective process that produces vitality. The document brings together historical perspectives and emerging approaches to practice that offer a more nuanced understanding of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of innovative architectural work. It explores how an emphasis on vitality can provide fresh insight into discussions around innovation in architecture.

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The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality: Architectural Design

The document discusses the issue of innovation in architecture. It suggests that innovation is often framed in economic terms but should be understood as an emergent and collective process that produces vitality. The document brings together historical perspectives and emerging approaches to practice that offer a more nuanced understanding of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of innovative architectural work. It explores how an emphasis on vitality can provide fresh insight into discussions around innovation in architecture.

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Guest-edited by
Pia Ednie-Brown, Mark Burry
and Andrew Burrow

The Innovation Imperative:


Architectures of Vitality

Contributors:

The pressure to innovate has become pervasive. Both inside


and outside the architectural profession we are increasingly
pressed by the quest for the new, by an innovation imperative.
But what does innovation really mean for architecture?
Predominantly framed in terms of technological invention,
economics and consumption, the notion of innovation is often
problematically applied to the arts. Design and creativity are
widely considered as drivers within innovation economies, but
how can architects understand and approach the imperative
to innovate meaningfully, ethically and on their own terms?
Suggesting a process that is fundamentally emergent,
collective and environmentally situated, The Innovation
Imperative explores architectural innovation in terms of the
production of vitality. Emphasising attention to ways of doing
as key to innovation, this title of 3 brings together historical
perspectives with a range of leading provocative, emerging
approaches to architectural practice that together offer fresh
insight into the often vague and ubiquitous atmospheres of
innovation-speak. Ultimately, this issue asks how an emphasis
on vitality might offer a more nuanced understanding of the
aesthetic value and ethical know-how intertwined within
innovative architectural endeavour.

Mario Carpo
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
Jondi Keane
Brian Massumi
Veronika Valk
Leon van Schaik
Michael Weinstock
Gretchen Wilkins
Featured architects
and designers:
Arakawa and Gins
Eva Franch i Gilabert
Greg Lynn
MOS (Michael Meredith
and Hilary Sample)
Franois Roche
VergeLabs

The Innovation Imperative:


Architectures of Vitality
January/february 2013
Profile No 221

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