FAR
Understood as both an adjective (e.g., distant) and an acronym (For an Architecture of the Real), FAR defines the activities of a group of researchers interested in the quality of the built world and the role of construction in bringing it about. Utopian in its resolve and pragmatic in its operational tactics, the work of FAR seeks to define material solutions to building environment challenges that are grounded in their historical, social and economic realities.
In the context of FAR, architecture and construction cannot be separated:FAR is concerned with the construction of efficient architecture,interpreted as a framework for social activities and a rival investment, asmuch as it is interested in the architecture of construction, i.e. theindustrial system that enables spatial ideas to reach sound built fruition.Thus, FAR’s work deals with (…)
In the world of FAR, architecture and construction cannot be separated: FAR is concerned with the construction of efficient architecture, interpreted as a framework for social activities and a rival investment, as much as it is interested in the architecture of construction, i.e., the industrial system that enables spatial ideas to reach sound built fruition.Within (…)
FAR has a fascination with design and building tools as testimonies of collective ingenuity, cultural identity, and individual associations of hand and mind. In embodying conventions and innovation in their conception and form, they intimate a rule of art as tied to the task at hand as to the understanding their user has of it. (…)