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WHAT_architecture Anthony Hoete

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Monday Aug 22, 2011 at 5:30pm

Room 68, Level 11, RMIT Building 8
368 Swanston St
CBD,   Melbourne
Victoria,   Australia 3000

WHAT_architecture is a London-based office influenced by game play potential. From Plato to Play-Doh, we recognise 1. the social value in play and 2. that architectural practice makes perfect.

To this end WHAT_architecture deploys an iterative strategy within its design-research methodology.

Options, variations and permutations are coached into existence. The best games have actions that are replayed, over and over. The most demanding buildings are also those that require revisiting and endure beyond 1/60th second, a snapshot experience.
Architecture is more than just tourism or pornography.

In our aspiration for replayable buildings, we embrace reconfigurability. A game board represents a static space open to myriad potential. The best games are also the ones that bend the rules, but don’t break them.

As much as we all acknowledge the allure of rebellion, the illegal architect is a fanciful conceit. Architects don’t break laws: ours is a compliant profession.

Anthony Hoete WHAT architecture
 

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