Hyungmin Pai, author of The Portfolio and the Diagram, suggests World War I and the Great Depression revealed “to many architects that the traditional strategy of autonomy had become ineffectual amidst a social agenda maximising efficiency and production”. Pai links the major reformation of the discipline that subsequently took place to this questioning of the profession’s relevance. Eighty years later, as the most recent financial crisis was starting to bite, five publications were released, each of which questioned the role of the discipline and profession in the light of a similar questioning of the disjunction between the activities of the profession and issues of increasing inequity worldwide. Although each publication was the culmination of years of research, the simultaneous release of these manifestos over a three-month period from the summer of 2008 is nothing short of extraordinary. This moment framed the subsequent decade of debate around the content and role of the profession and disciplinary boundaries. Conclusions are few, but the need for a disciplinary and professional transformation of equal consequence to that which occurred in the 1930s remains. This essay works through key arguments to conclude that, as in the 1930s, the focus in the discipline on the object needs to be supplanted by a focus on how architecture works with relationality, such that objects are understood as after-effects of these relations, and thus the profession is structurally recast in this context.

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关系与架构：重新聚焦学科可能如何扭转该行业看似不可阻挡的衰落轨迹

Hyungmin Pai 是 The Portfolio and the Diagram 的作者，他表示第一次世界大战和大萧条向许多建筑师揭示了“在最大化效率和生产的社会议程中，传统的自治战略已经变得无效”。Pai 将随后发生的学科的重大改革与对职业相关性的质疑联系起来。八十年后，随着最近的金融危机开始袭来，出版了五份出版物，每一份都质疑学科和职业的作用，因为对职业活动与职业问题之间的脱节也提出了类似的质疑。世界范围内的不平等加剧。尽管每篇论文都是多年研究的结晶，从 2008 年夏天开始，在三个月的时间内同时发布这些宣言简直是非同寻常。这一时刻构成了随后十年围绕专业和学科界限的内容和作用的辩论。结论很少，但仍然需要进行与 1930 年代发生的具有同等后果的学科和专业转型。本文通过关键论点得出的结论是，与 1930 年代一样，该学科对对象的关注需要被关注建筑如何与关系相结合，以便对象被理解为这些关系的后遗症，因此，在这种情况下，该专业在结构上被重新塑造。这一时刻构成了随后十年围绕专业和学科界限的内容和作用的辩论。结论很少，但仍然需要进行与 1930 年代发生的具有同等后果的学科和专业转型。本文通过关键论点得出的结论是，与 1930 年代一样，该学科对对象的关注需要被关注建筑如何与关系相结合，以便对象被理解为这些关系的后遗症，因此，在这种情况下，该专业在结构上被重新塑造。这一时刻构成了随后十年围绕专业和学科界限的内容和作用的辩论。结论很少，但仍然需要进行与 1930 年代发生的具有同等后果的学科和专业转型。本文通过关键论点得出的结论是，与 1930 年代一样，该学科对对象的关注需要被关注建筑如何与关系相结合，以便对象被理解为这些关系的后遗症，因此，在这种情况下，该专业在结构上被重新塑造。