What's He Building in There? Crafting a New Role Between the Scholar and the Architect

The thesis (placing), preceded by the abstract (drawn from), situates itself as the site for our discussion concerning the role of the Scholar, the Architect, and the previously un-surveyed grounds in-between. This thesis examines a new role to be performed in the construing and constructing of architecture. Educated in the Trivium: Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic, and the Quadrivium: Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy, the Architect/Musician/Machinist/Scholar comes together to fabricate the hinge between the idea and the physical manifestation of Architecture. Through the lens of contemporary, widely available technology, we examine the potential for a new role in architecture that straddles historic and present scholarship, and simultaneously assesses the role of increased power in individual manufacturing possibilities and their infinitely scalable nature.