Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Sykes, Brian Harrison Author's Email Address bsykes07@vt.edu URN etd-10042010-113555 Title Processing The Program: Considering The Architectural Brief Degree Master of Architecture Department Architecture Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Emmons, Paul F. Committee Chair Feuerstein, Marcia F. Committee Member Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C. Committee Member Schippers, John Committee Member Keywords
- Brief
- Program
- Architecture
Date of Defense 2009-06-19 Availability unrestricted Abstract The architectural program is often seen as a shoppinglist of requirements the client presents to the architect with the
expectation the architect will create a design solution to address
the owner’s requests. The shopping list may or may not be
created with the assistance of an architect. The program in this
form is often the result of some form of analysis. The design
is then intended to be a formal synthesis. This reductionist
approach to architectural program degenerates the capacity of
the program to merely solidified functional relationships. Additionally,
this approach limits the concept of the program to the
initial pre-design phase of the life of the building.
My thesis offers a more provisional approach to the concept
of the program - breaking apart constant architectural concerns
within the pre-design portion of the project into individual
concerns/programs to be addressed, and then recombining those
individual aspects through a series of contingent imaginings,
or processing. Accepting contingency, or the impermanence
of various conditions within the architects
sphere of influence, as a key aspect of a
“pre-graphia” moment, provides the architect with an opportunity
to embrace patterns of change within architecture and
the world at large. Architecture should address topics
such as transforming construction technologies, the individual
site as it changes over time, or patterns of bodily
inhabitation and imagine possibilities for a project . As a building’s
purposes change, at varying rates, so will certain aspects
of architectural performance.
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