Detail 01/1961 - Fritz Jaenecke [Diskussion]
Planning and execution are often too separate. Especially the compulsion to "ra-tionalization" does not allow the details to mature. Type products and scheme designs counter the pursuit of risk mitigation. However, there is no good architectural without careful detailing.
A construction initially exists only in the planning drawing as documentation of the architectural management of the frame Task. He only comes to life with the practical implementation of the draft. Architecture alone, the only one among the visual arts, requires the two phases of planning determined by a personality and their collective execution with the participation of many people.
The aim is that the architect himself gives as many instructions, dispositions and drawings as possible for all relevant details of the construction or at least fixes them in principle, from shell construction to all details of interior design.
In project implementation, his personality should be clearly and distinctly activated. The architectural details reveal, as it were, the alphabet, the dialect, the grammar of his mind, in them the whole thing manifests itself.
The planning can have special features and extend very significantly to the smallest details. This will apply in particular to buildings that serve a provision that stands out from the ordinary. In such cases, the artistic inspiration has its own solutions, which often require the architect and his employees to spend a lot of time and difficult elaborations, especially the details.
In many cases, however, it is the case today that the preparation and planning of a building on the one hand and the realization of the project on the other hand are largely separated from each other in the routine of everyday work. The compulsion to save and short construction times now usually have precedence over the requirements of architectural maturation. Nevertheless, in order to be at least reasonably sure, the architect often limits himself to using such detailed elements that are ready for application (whether from industrial series production or in the sense of schematic work). Often he only repeats types that are also introduced in similar buildings or he converts these or Execution methods a little off.
It is also the case: the material conditions and constructions, which are becoming increasingly difficult or confusing as a result of the strong differentiation in the techniques, can already make preliminary considerations and planning work more difficult. In addition, there are often hardly enough experienced experts left for non-chematic details, which in turn favors the tendency to compare the assembly of fixed and finished industrial products to the artisanal execution, even the Developing windows, every door cladding for a simple residential building every time seems to me only a hindrance to the development of residential building. In my opinion, it depends on generally valid, general solutions, which of course must also be able to develop again.
It is something else when the importance of the task or its uniqueness requires special solutions to the details. But here, too, an economic limit will be set. However, individual details cannot be evaluated on their own; e.g. B. a beautiful window detail or a magnificent stair railing in an otherwise misguided house does not make things any better. However, this is another area on which there is still a lot to say.
Fritz Jaenecke, Architect in Malmö
P.S.: translation from Deutsch to English through scan to text and auto-translation. The original is provided. I am not a german native, although I lived a few years and can understand some basic german, I leave this as it is. Will accept any help on the correction of the translation if provided. Thank you for your understanding.
