ABSTRACT
In Toward a Scientific Architecture Yona Friedman argues for a replacement of the architect with a rational artisan, whose sole task would be to facilitate the user/client's wishes by building not so much form, but a repertoire of possibility. Toward a Scientific Architecture locates resolution within a democratization of the planning process, enabling individuals to intervene within the building process with their own set of ideas, determine the material conditions for their own place of residence, and stage an articulation of their own set of spatial values. Infrastructure as medium gives structure to the promise of fulfilment, according to the actions and reactions of individual use, through a sharing in the process of building. Concepts of waste move through the channels of architecture, engineering, and industrial production, and surface in the form of infrastructure and waste management.
