Reflexive Practice in have been operating in various fields since 1876. Established Reflexive Practices in Architectural Ecologies have evolved from Thomas Alva Edison at Menlo Park to Rupert Sheldrake at the Institute of Noetic Science. Each of these practices are detours towards Meaningless Objects in Featureless Space and forged new sets of relationships not envisioned before and developed like an ever evolving architectural ecology. A reflexive practice is one that seeks coherence with the environment A reflexive practice is where one location could be the spatial input of another A reflexive practice operates in an equilibrial state with the environment by maintaining ultimate sustainability A reflexive practice sets up whole new sets of relationships within the world as a move towards a holistic approach A reflexive practice operates with the culminating influence of past systems on subsequent similar systems by Morphic resonance It is a practice that searches for ways to develop constructs that as they alter the environment, they will be able to be maintained, by creating artificial subsystems to replace the natural ones. In a way to "keep ahead" of nature until eventually constructs will be able to become completely independent of the natural order by technological means'. Edison could have been seeking these constructs as transcendence in the technological garden in Menlo Park. Whilst SheldrakeÕs concept of Morphogenetic Fields implies a new type of physical field which plays a fundamental role in the development of form. These Detours inform the processes established in a reflexive practice in architectural ecologies to become Architecture as coupled action with the environment creating a genetic fingerprint. What ÔbecomesÕ is an object, carefully crafted through technological, manual, environmental constraints which are in constant dialogue with the environment.



Author Bio
Shaun Murray is currently a practising architect in London and a doctoral student at the Planetary Collegium, Plymouth, England His research interests are broad, but all reside under the umbrella of Architectural Ecology. He is particularly interested in exploring and augmenting the boundaries of the profession as well as fostering an interchange with other disciplines. Consciously the choice has been made outside the mainstream of current architectural establishment, in favour for a focus on fresh accounts of a generation of experimental architecture in order to launch new discursive territories. His publications include ÔReflexive ArchitectureÕ, ÔYoung BloodÕ and ÔArchitects in Cyberspace IIÕ in Architectural Design. He lectures, exhibits and has been published worldwide and has taught at Bartlett School, University College London and other universities across the world. Email: Shaun.murray@virgin.net Details:http://people.i-dat.org/detail/?cssm