Architecture in the Making
Architecture as a Making Discipline
and Material Practice
Architecture's Provoking Instrumentality
Liekens, Johan
Project Contact: jo.liekens@luca-arts.be
Project Type: Doctorate
Project Period: 201004 - 201512
Description
Architecture’s Provoking Instrumentality investigates the potential of architecture as a trigger to thought. Through the embodying experience of architectural artefacts, the relation between people and world can be questioned, brought sensibly into negotiation. Negotiation as a materially installed process becomes the fundament of this research: it disturbs and resists established and prescribing ways of thinking and acting within the world, venturing from what is considered to be known to the realm of possibilities. Architecture thus conceived goes beyond narrow definitions of itself, beyond the aesthetic, the functional and the closed concept. Not being smooth, adaptive and affirmative, it is edgy, frictionous and critical. Not being problem-solving, it problematizes: architecture as a complicating machine enabeling us to think the world anew. The research is project driven: it ventures from conceived and built architectural experiments, inside and outside an educational context, to establish a broader critical questioning design attitude, inducing the dynamics of negotiation.
Bio(s)
Johan Liekens holds a MD in Architecture from the Ghent Sint-Lucas Department of Architecture, with a thesis in an architectural anthropological context. Besides being part of an architectural practice STUDIOLO architectuur, where architecture spanning the scales from space to detail is designed and when possible made, he is a teacher in the think!studio’s and researchstudio’s in Interiorarchitecture at the Ghent and Brussels Sint-Lucas Department of Architecture. He undertakes a PhD ‘Research By Design’ at the Chalmers School of Architecture in Gothenburg and the Sint-Lucas Department of Architecture (promoter: Prof. Dr. Fredrik Nilsson). His doctoral research is entitled ‘Architecture’s Provoking Instrumentamlity’ and focuses on the critical potential of architecture to unfold through its embodying materiality negotiation and acts of thought. Architecture as an agent provoking us to critically think the world anew.
Output
Projects
- Erratic – Digital Geometry and Unwieldy Matter
Norell, Daniel; Rodhe, Einar - Asplund’s City Library
Andersen, Michael Asgaard - Metoder för klimatanpassad arkitektonisk design
Thomas Olofsson, Janek Ozmin - Architectural Knowledge Production in Professional and Academic Practices – The Aspect of ‘Making’ in Architecture as Practice and Discipline
Nilsson, Fredrik - ’Doctorateness’ in the Making Disciplines
Nilsson, Fredrik. Dunin-Woyseth, Halina. Fauske, Laila. Solberg, Anne. - Hydrophyle Prototype Development
Karlsson, Ulrika. Gow, Marcelyn. - The Things of the Order: The Question of Typology
Soolep, Jüri - Topological Interlocking Assemblies
Tessmann, Oliver - Nordic #3: Alteration
Anstey, Tim. Gabrielsson, Catharina - Conservation Practice and the History of Architecture
Barup, Kerstin
- Architecture at the Front
Norell, Daniel - Spatial Capital – An Analytical Theory of Urban Form
Marcus, Lars - Invisible Things - A Journey Through Organizations of Matter in Architecture
Berlemont, Thierry - Governing Reason
Lundgren, Staffan - Developing Making Scholarship. Research Practices and Concepts in Creative Fields and Disciplines
Nilsson, Fredrik. Dunin-Woyseth, Halina. - Meta-Urbanism and Utopia-driven Projective Research
Nel Janssens - The Strange Case of Parametric Architecture, ca 1989–2008
Slávik, Andrej - Swedish Architectural History in the Nordic Countries
Andersen, Michael Asgaard - Architectural Assemblages, Tectonics, and Material Practices
Nilsson, Fredrik - Embedded Sensors
Stig Anton Nielsen - Making Space: The Concept and Geometry of Space in Sociology, Geography and Architecture
Marcus, Lars. Westin, Sara. Liebst, Lasse - Networks of Digital Architecture: 1960-1980
Miranda Carranza, Pablo - Nearly Zero Energy as a Design Parameter – A Study in Tectonics and Morphology for Nearly Zero Energy Architecture
Lundgren, Marja - A Biologically-centered Framework in Urban Foodscapes
Orru, Anna Maria - Från loftgångslänga till framtidens gröna sociala boende
Ola Broms Wessel et al. - Arkitekturhistorien i det utvidgade fältet: Sverige-Schweiz 1950 till idag
Caldenby, Claes - Configurations of Consumption: Architectural Morphology as a Discursive Field
Koch, Daniel - Constructions of Urban Hierarchies
Fredriksson, Julia - Global tektonik. En studie av monumentala träbyggnadskulturer
Mårtelius, Johan - Progress in construction technology as a basis for modern architecture
Seelow, Atli - Tactics and experiments of algorithmic techniques in contemporary architectural design
Zboinska, Malgorzata - The Design/User interface – Applying computational design to the early stages of design process
Magnusson, Frans - Things that Move
Anstey, Tim - Transvaluation
Dyrssen, Catharina - Architecture's Provoking Instrumentality
Liekens, Johan
- Lecture Series: Design & Research
Fall/Winter 2013-2014 - The Changing Shape of Practice
September 20, 2013 - Erratic at Aalto
September 19, 2013 - Review Meeting and Seminar: The Project
April 10-12, 2013 - Release of NORDIC #3: Alteration
January 31, 2013 - Architecture, Photography, and the Contemporary Past
February 18-19, 2013 - Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology
November 20, 2012 - "Mass Production", David Erdman and Mario Carpo
May 14, 2012 - Architectural History and Practices
May 2-4, 2012 - Miljonprogrammet – framtidens stad
March 7, 2012 - Tectonic Cultures – Emergent Properties
December 9, 2011 - "Architecture, Life, Habit”, Andrew Ballantyne
December 8, 2011 - Design in Architectural Alteration
December 5-6, 2011 - Computational Design
November 28-29, 2011 - Alteration
August 31 - September 2, 2011