I love the way McCullough portrays hands and how they are LIFE in the form of KNOWLEDGE. It is life in the form of physical knowledge and experience, but in a sense of skill. I saw a strong connection to McCullough's quote of "skill is learned by doing," and Aristotle's quote, "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
I also found that McCullough made a great point in his example of a pianist, and how it's difficult to simultaneously apply and study a skill. How many of us can use a table saw and think about how well we are doing it without cutting a finger off? I think this is a very strong point of the article. McCullough also discusses form giving as a two-way process, beauty and usefulness. Craft used to mean that these two things can occur simultaneously, but now through industry, it has become a choice of beauty OR usefulness.
The last comment I can remember from discussion is based on the second chapter of the reading. McCullough makes a great point when he says that, "As a result of technological change, architecture emerged as a distinct profession."
I end with, DOES SPEED ALWAYS LEAD TO EFFICIENCY, QUALITY, AND CRAFT?
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Hannah - I like the question, but please clarify: where did speed come from? Is technology about speed?
I guess it is a vague question with many undefined words. I asked the question, because in my mind, efficiency has come to mean speed, sometimes almost exclusively. I think that technology has been a huge aid to speed, but in general the architecture profession has really been subjected to the idea of speed in projects, regardless of quality sometimes. My question rose as a result of the entire article, and how speed does not always lead to efficiency, and quality and craft are sometimes left out completely of the equation. Does that clarify at all? So, speed does entail technology (which is the main driver for speed), but also the idea of efficiency.
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