Introduction
A synthesis project across various disciplines, Thomas Dutton and Liam Hurst Mann’s necessary disclosure and social practices, tends to be risky. Just like all interdisciplinary works, it entails a risk of being in an undisciplined state. As such, it stands under-dress in the eyes of an expert audience. However, the article positions itself as a risk subject to interest. This is because; it lays the foundation for further details and analysis that has been developed or extended.
I tend to find this article fascinating as I share most of their concerns, such as resistance and politics of hope. Moreover, I am interested in the notion of postmodern new right designers. Therefore, this response will put less criticism on the article other than attempting to give an extension of the work to compromise more rich reading with texture as the value shifting and methods that inform the theories and practices in the architectural discipline.
Social Architecture
In social Architecture, considering the past two decades, it has hugely impacted social concern. This emphasis was necessitated by experimentation in the profession, field professionalization, post-modernism reaction, environmental consciousness expansion, and the recession in the whole world. Architecture, recognized as social, has become a central part of architectural culture’s core production. However, due to the emergence of new sects in architecture, complications within the profession, contradictions, and paradoxes are surfacing together with ambiguity related to power and politics.
The question arising from what is advanced by this article includes; how individuals come to terms with the perspective sets that are complex? If the humanitarian design is not the community’s vision, then is it contemporary imperialism? Where is the voice of the client? What roles do the architects play?
Architectural Ethnographic Polaroid
An extended critique is vital as it interrogates the humanitarian design, which is emerging, and the sustainability of the environment approaches. An analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives in movements of architecture should be enhanced.
This is also important in bridging the paradox in the creation of spaces of emancipation. Comparing the available representation with the site’s instructor, one would wonder what methodology would incorporate the community voice into the designation and construction of the building. There exists an empirical warning that, if the public vote does not act as the sole motivator of a social project, then other sets of imperialistic values are produced.
In Architectural Ethnographic Polaroid, a specific question has to be asked. These include; when are multiple value balances? are architects disempowering the community’s voice? What if the architects shrink their own community’s vision? Is the city or the architect aware of the ways to best improve society?
Theoretical Analysis
If sociology is deployed with an analysis tool for the process of humanitarian architecture, then it necessitates the recognition that it has a history. Professional Sociology was applied in an effort to solve the dependencies in disciplines, ideals as well as necessities.
As such, the presence of practical activities, which are ineffective and tend to employ architectural philosophies, requires the architects to locate themselves in a battlefield in the social aspect relating to financial and political distributaries in power. Failure to this, they will be the ones to serve the class of homogeny first. As such, we tend to ask ourselves questions such as; how can an architect not be at service to those in power? How can engagement of architecture be enhanced concerning the social?
Conclusion
Thomas Dutton and Liam Hurst Mann’s necessary disclosure and social practices remain a subject of debate. Just like all works that are interdisciplinary, it entails a risk of being in an undisciplined state. As such, it stands under-dress in the eyes of the audience of architectural practitioners. However, the article poses a risk that is subject to interest as it lays the foundation for further details as well as analysis that has been developed or extended. This is, therefore, what warrants a response.