The battle for the future of the building sector is often framed as a conflict over standards: between those who defend existing standards and those who demand new, green, and sustainable ones. But what if we challenged this premise? What if the logic of standardisation is actually at the root of the problem? This is the starting point for the second episode of our new podcast series.
Tune in to hear Elspeth Lee and Donn Holohan from the studio Superposition delve into the challenges of standardisation and explore potential solutions beyond conventional standards. This podcast episode covers:
- The value of pre-standardised architecture
- The myth of the connection between democratisation and standardisation
- The barriers to flexibility, spontaneity, and creativity imposed by standardisation
This is the second episode of "10 Dogmas," a 10-part podcast series designed to push the boundaries of architectural thinking. In this series, we invite ten leading architectural studios to critically examine and challenge ten core dogmas that currently dominate architectural practice and consensus.
10 Dogmas is produced by CAFx and presented in collaboration with VELUX and their Build for Life initiative, which reconnects people and the planet through healthier, more sustainable buildings.
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Superposition is an experimental architecture studio founded by Donn Holohan and Elspeth Lee which integrates teaching, research and practice. Working between Hong Kong and Ireland, the studio merges vernacular means and methods with digital tools with a view toward making architecture which is specific rather than generic, pragmatic but not utilitarian, and with a strongly community-centred view of evolving tradition and place.
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