rem-research-vs03

In general, we found the topic of Rem’s style of research to be quite interesting, but currently the piece needs to further clarify its terms, its interest in Rem’s style of research, and ultimately, it needs to make an evaluation of the research. (I say this primarily because the piece seems to gesture at this, but does not explicitly state a position.) _ Stephanie

TERMS
Research is a convoluted and emphatic process. It must have a method. Before one achieves method, one must have a position of locating the investigation within a broader identified body of knowledge. The case towards an objective question is then argued. This leads a suggestion being made for the investigation to have contributed to a knowledge system a smidgen of material . When comparing research to #remresearch it looks like a tangent. It doesn’t want to be ascribed to a body of knowledge but tries to be one. The distinction between them is that one is produced to be read and the other to be sold. While one is minimalist the other seems baroque as there isn’t a measure for it than for its opulence. Data is its argument. Data is its research. It good to keep on the bookshelf. It looks nice. They convey inspiration right from its forewords to endnotes. A meticulously refined exercise. Fans wait in eager anticipation for the next blockbuster research. The colors, fonts, charts, everything about it and of the document. What makes it even better is that it is never positioned alone but as of a collaborative work of a collective.

INTEREST
Appeal of the genre has been phenomenal enough that people no longer want to be a part of any stylistic schema or for that matter spatial reason but position a pursuit in architectural contribution by ascribing to a research tab . Spatial manipulations, material inquiry, regional biases and mystic orientations have waned. Research is the new style and #remresearch is its most visible voice. Dedicated to the virtual , research adds a new meaning to what style as entity has contributed to the conversation about building. Permanence is now made possible. Architectural history as we understand it has reached its paradigm shift.

EVALUATION
New York to Tokyo and every pit stop in-between is a happening in itself. Its only evolution of can be traced to the advances in print production technology. A systemic progression with recognising the times via a monotonous repetition on a conversation about architecture. It has always been about architecture . It has never evolved and it never will. It shouldn’t. Can it? Beyond a certain critical mass a building becomes a big building . You can’t react to it. You can only look with either amusement or amazement. Expounding on ideals, sound bites wherein the credibility of being good big research is a designed entity rather than a structured argument. #remresearch should be seen as only as method of presentation of an idea. It contains research instead of being research. It cannot be evaluated as a whole but in bits. Copy - as visual prescription of promoting magnificence in production - is its only future. To decay or to rise to new strata is thus left to those that seek stylistic association with it.