Inside Architecture from the Outside: Architecture's Disciplinary Practices

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe purpose and knowledge of architecture is primarily enacted through practice. This essay makes an original contribution to the discourse on inter-, multi-, trans-disciplinary design practice research by asserting architecture’s skill in relation to utilization of its own and other disciplinary methods. Informed by the writings of Vittorio Gregotti, Elizabeth Grosz and Mark Linder a framework is established which consolidates and validates positions inside and outside architectural practice. The material practices of inside and the hybridized practices and emergence of new techniques of outside both contribute to possibilities of practicing inside architecture from the outside. Collaborative exchanges at disciplinary boundaries and beyond are argued to manifest and be made through disciplinary practice exchanges and attentiveness to technē, the “tools, techniques and technologies” of a discipline.