Lyons : The Pursuit of Ideas - Reflection

This reading is from Architecture Australia and Looks at the Lyons architectural practice and below is my reflection on the reading-

I found this article quite interesting as is about a relatively young practice that isn’t a hero architect firm that builds right in the prime locations where many people are exposed to it. They build in areas that aren’t “traditional concepts of civic beauty” to quote the reading. And that most of their architecture has ornamentation in their exterior facades relating to ideas pulled from the context in which the building is to be integrated.

This ornamentation was enabled by digital technologies more accurately computers, as they are used by the practice as tools to generate forms for abstraction. This I found most interesting as it is an approach or inspiration that could be applied in similar ways to my design project.

This ornamentation on the skin is not the only thing that Lyons focuses on the firm also looks at other aspects of the architecture like the changing typologies as mentioned among other things in the text is it also something to consider.

Another aspect that stood out in the reading was the representational aspects of the architecture and that the practice looks at ideas and ways of finding inventive representations to put across in their architecture. And mentioned in the text that these generators for ideas tend to be specific to the brief or context not just abstractions that come out of thin air, and this is important to note. As this is what makes their architectural project stand out and have merit in my opinion. This also is an important part of my own design and the methods and ways of thinking and coming up with ideas to apply to my design project.