Masterbuilder as a Team Interdisciplinary Project Team. An Attempt at Analysis

BUILDER ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 276 (7) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Piotr Bujak
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Interdisciplinary Cooperation ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Simple Task ◽  
Work Outcome ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Full Knowledge ◽  
Master Builder ◽  
Successful Collaboration

It's a striking fact that in a world of highly specialized professions (stimulated by the development of science and technology) as well as precise legal regulations defining rules of standalone practice in building industry, we've lost a single person capable of providing full knowledge necessary for completing building venture, as it was common 100 years ago. It's not a good time for a master builder, we know from middle ages. Every planning venture, whether its purpose is to create a chair or a city, requires appropriate preparations. What distinguishes these two extreme examples, in particular, is the scope of knowledge necessary for their execution. While a chair is a relatively simple task to complete, it can be planned and executed by a single person, a contemporary building or a city requires the cooperation of various specialists. Interdisciplinary cooperation, although sometimes perceived as a problem and an unpleasant necessity, can be an opportunity for a unique work outcome. The article is an attempt of analysis of this complex problem, which by reviewing selected reference material - including both scientific studies and testimonials of outstanding practitioners - introduces its concise characteristics, problems, and advantages, but, most importantly, tries to define the conditions required for successful collaboration.

Multidisciplinary Teaching - Changing Collaboration during Building Design

2010 ◽  
Vol 168-170 ◽  
pp. 2382-2386
Author(s):  
Anne Dederichs ◽  
Jan Karlshøj
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Master Builder ◽  
Made In

Traditionally the design phase was carried out by one single person – the master builder. Industrialization and technical development led to a split of the role of the design master into two: the architect and the engineer. Today, demands on functionality such as energy and cost efficiency led to an increasing need of functioning collaboration in large teams during the design phase; as well as a need of new work methods within the process. This calls for employees who are experienced in collaborating in interdisciplinary teams. To fulfill this demand a multidisciplinary course in “Advanced building design” has been developed at the Technical University of Denmark. The goal of the course is to provide training in teamwork at the final stage of the engineering education. The course has been carried out twice. It was held by a multidisciplinary team of professors in periods 2008/09 and 2009/10. The team of professors and the student teams had similar working conditions. These teams were subject of a questionnaire investigation on collaboration and team work. The study has the following findings. Collaboration can be learned and improves in time. It is shown that the team leader is not necessarily to be found within on specific profession. The team-structure was generally flat and decisions were mostly made in consensus. It is worthwhile to offer a multidisciplinary course and give engineering students experience in collaboration methods.

AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF METHODS, FOR TEACHING DESIGN PATTERNS WITHIN, OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORKS

2007 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 701-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIN BAN HO ◽  
IAN CHAI ◽  
CHUIE HONG TAN
Keyword(s):  
Design Patterns ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Simple Task ◽  
Pedagogical Documentation ◽  
Object Oriented Design ◽  
Teaching Design

Design patterns have become an important part of modern object-oriented design. It is necessary to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of different methods of pedagogical documentation in teaching design patterns. We compared patterns-style documentation with minimalist documentation. Patterns style disagrees with minimalism in that contextual information is not minimal — it usually contains information other than what needs to be done. The discoveries in this empirical study were two fold. First, the MANOVA (multivariate analyses of variance) shows that the effect of patterns-style documentation and minimalism are different. Second, we proposed a prediction model using a regression modeling technique. Considering these results, we formulate some guidelines for effective framework documentation by applying five of the design patterns within the Swing environment as our case study. Different documentation philosophies are better for different goals. For a simple task, use minimalist documentation. For a much more complex problem such involving five of the design patterns, our empirical results suggest using patterns-style documentation.

scholarly journals Potemkin Fabrications: Administrative Gymnastics, Messy Boundaries, and the Alternative Facts that Enable Design-Build Pedagogy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hughes ◽  
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Emily Baker ◽  
Rick Sommerfeld ◽  
Mo Zell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Design Build ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Apprenticeship Model ◽  
Master Builder ◽  
Direct Encounter

Celebrated as a mechanism for engaging ‘real’ projects much of the contemporary design-build literature foregrounds the action-learning embedded in the physical act of making a piece of architecture at full-scale. Participating students and faculty comments regularly highlight the direct encounter with the materials and method of construction as well as the collaborative, cross-disciplinary nature of community engagement. Brian Mackay-Lyons, founder of the Ghost Lab in Nova Scotia, argues that “Pragmatism is the best teacher” and “Technology is best learned by making” and he links design-build to, “The apprenticeship model of architectural education—its roots in the master-builder tradition of the Middle Ages.” (Mackay-Lyons 2008, p 135 and p138) However, the conventional fixation on the construction process and final products obscures the complex, often unappetizing, ‘behind the scenes’ logistics necessary to implement, and sustain, new pedagogies.

Presidential Address: Feudal Society and the Family in Early Medieval England: III. Patronage and Politics

1984 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Feudal Society ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Cain And Abel ◽  
The One

ON a previous occasion I posed a question: family relations mattered, or did they? I now intend to investigate in what way they mattered. It is a complex problem. In the middle ages men were reminded more frequently than now by the varied representation of the tale of Cain and Abel that family relations are not always easy; they could be supportive, cohesive, quarrelsome or murderous. So it is reasonable to ask: why the one rather than the other? Behind that there are other questions: when did the family matter and when not? Why did it matter when it did and why when not? A long established tradition in Anglo-Saxon scholarship has been concerned with the respective roles of kinship, lordship and local association. What can be said on the same topics for the post-Conquest period? For it is plain that there can be no secure conclusions about the family unless it is correctly located and properly embedded in the matrix of social and political relationships within which men lived their lives.

scholarly journals The Survival of Andalusi Artistic Formulas in the Time of Hernan Ruiz I

Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Ángeles Jordano
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
The Past ◽  
Master Builder ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Middle Ages

In the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era, Hernan Ruiz I worked as master builder of the Cathedral of Cordoba. His works exemplify the adoption of an artistic language resulting from the symbiosis of Gothic, Renaissance and Islamic formulas. In this paper, we demonstrate the imprint of the Andalusi aesthetic in this master’s work. Through an analysis of his building works and the evolution of his style, we show that Hernan Ruiz I’s legacy is more important than what historiography has previously suggested, which has only addressed the transition in his architectural style from Gothic to Renaissance and has overlooked the impact of Andalusi formulas in his work. Hernan Ruiz I bore witness to an important change in the mentality and aesthetic tastes of his time, and although his son, Hernan Ruiz II, gained greater recognition for his work, his father was able to adapt a church model imbued with the medieval spirit to the demands of the new patrons, namely the nobility and high clergy. These clients imposed their tastes, which were anchored in the past, but were open to new Renaissance influences due to their humanistic training and, at the same time, attracted by the exoticism and prestige of Andalusi art.

scholarly journals Concept And Its Implementation During The Reconstruction Of The Church Of Blessed Virgin Mary In Chojna

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Maciej Płotkowiak
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
The West ◽  
Reconstruction Procedure ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Master Builder ◽  
Design Ideas ◽  
The Church ◽  
Construction Works

Abstract St. Mary's parish church in Chojna was erected at the turn of XIV and XVc. in a shape of three aisles, hall church without transept, completed from the west with a single tower and from the east with polygonal presbytery with an ambulatory attached. The convergence of characteristic structural and decorative features with employed ones in medieval churches being attributed to Hinrich Brunsberg's fabric resulted in such a way, that also authorship of St. Mary in Chojna was assigned to this legendary architect and master builder of late Middle Ages period. The church was destroyed by fire during WWII in February 1945 and since then had remained as an open ruin. In 1997 reconstruction procedure of the church was begun under the leadership of the author and it still continues. This text consists of the sum of experiences connected with confronting design ideas and solutions with their executions on the site during construction works.

Waqf and Patronage in Seljuk Anatolia: the Epigraphic Evidence

1976 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 69-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Standard Handbook ◽  
Master Craftsman ◽  
Basic Vocabulary ◽  
Master Builder ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence

L. A. Mayer's Islamic Architects and their Works, a provisional list of individuals associated with the erection of Muslim buildings, has justly become a standard handbook of Muslim architectural practice. However, this varied as much as in the West, from Byzantium through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. There are differences of basic vocabulary: the ustādh (master builder or master craftsman) of Seljuk Anatolia is unknown in the Maghrib; differences of status, suggested by the frequency of “signatures” in Seljuk Anatolia and their rarity in Mamlūk Syria and Egypt; or even differences of organization, particularly the Ottoman khāṣṣa mi‘mārlari, a corps of architect-engineers whose rôle in the 16th century has been briefly described by Şerafettin Turan but whose existence in Seljuk Anatolia is highly dubious. The present article is an attempt to use the Seljuk foundation inscriptions of Anatolia, which have not hitherto been exploited as a source, to illuminate Seljuk practice, despite the obvious difficulty of generalizing from the very inadequate evidence.

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