"Architecture and the question of technology"

This topic explores the conditions under which ethics might be applied to architecture. Not only technical thinking itself but also a technical way of making have become the steandards against which any kind of making is measured. Instrumental thinking tends to impose its hegemony by creating a world that it can fully control. The difficulty in breaking that hegemony and in understanding that technology as the fulfilment of the will to power is not uncondition. The will to will ivents here the talk about mission. Mission is the goal assigned from the standpoint of fate. Technology gives us power it pleases our demands and it doesn’t limit our imagination giving us free space and will to create and achieve. But there is a drawn line between making art and reproducing it from technology as it lose the originality of a world of art. Technology is a new gadget that has been developed late during this century, but art well art is a whole other thing,art has existed with humans it has lived with them growing as we grew it is as old as humans and mysterious as well, art has an origin , it has details and history attached to it. You can explain a simple command in technology and don’t bother how that command was created but with art you cannot do that because you need to take information before you begin as there are many styles , rules, different means in your use  in order to create a masterpiece , and not everybody can produce art it takes talent.

     When explaining the development of technology, the author explains how the term Techne used to explain both art and technology as a nonuniform one. However there are two main events which concluded the final division between the two in history; The Objective division, and The Abstract division.

The first one refers to the founding of universal mathematics (through trials of metaphysics and mechanics on the study of movement) which substituted "logic" and transformed Techne into modern technology.

According to the authors as in nature and art (techno) processes are developed.These processes take place in several phases until the final product. Anyway Artoolli says:”Art is a chance and there are some divine things that intelligence and human knowledge can not control.”

The sciences that contributed to the formation of modern technique and technology were mainly: astronomy, optics and mechanics.The development of these sciences has made possible the meaning and perception of the Perspective which we as architects are interested on.If we consider how perspectives and mechanics are really practiced and not just how they appear in textbooks, we can see them as art, deeply influenced and informed by science.

From the comparison between art and technology we understood once again that architecture is the art and science at the same time.And also I understood that architecture is a process which can not be completed without the help of imagination.