I'm pretty sure it is type related as they haveas a mobilizing function. Architecture is a means of self-realization.
I'm pretty sure it is type related as they haveas a mobilizing function. Architecture is a means of self-realization.
There is something very intuitive about architecture, construction, form, and design. Massive buildings are too complex to analyze out and logically deduce, almost everything produced by an architect is out of induction. It starts with a concept and slowly refines itself to a finished product.
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I think.
Architecture is all about how several discrete structural components or members fit together to form a comprehensive whole, the baseline concept. The concept is like a box in which everything else fits and must be constrained to, and perhaps is the genesis of creativity for the design. Having a well articulated clear concept to design to.... is perhaps the most critical element of design early on.
Architecture seems IXTp. I used to design a lot of housing architecture back in the 3rd grade, I guess I wanted to be one. Architecture is kind of a nice word for Te creative. You have the ISTp craftsman, and the INTp architect/designer.
But Ti is structural whereas Te is process orientated. Te would be more suited to, say, the design of a highway or aqueduct, as it builds processes. With Ti, the objects themselves benefit from the design.
Te is more discrete and factual, like looking at pieces and parts, their functionality, their utility, and their logical characteristics and properties. This is usually coupled with Ni or Si to form a cohesive intuition or sense of how these discrete factual elements form together into a whole.
Ti is a different process, while similar in its logical nature to Te its more concerned with underlying principles and structure. Logical characteristics don't simply exist as discrete attributes but are derived from a deeper hierarchy of reasoning, some kind of structural framework. This is coupled with Ne or Se which provides a sort of critical observation in reality which works in tandem with a set amount of static logical principles.
In a way the introverted element is what glues together the pieces and the extroverted element is what inspires the pieces in each kind of approach.
A Ti type designs elements based of Ne or Se functionality, and fits these together with Ti into a logical framework
A Te type designs elements based of Te functionality, and fits these together with Ni or Si sense.
Consider someone designing a military rifle....
A Ti approach would consider Se/Ne functionality..... Se as in, what kind of force is the rifle capable of deliver in practice, how reliable is it; Ne as in, what kind of potential advantage does this rifle have over other rifles, what makes it unique, what sets it apart as a good design? Then once measures are set into place, Ti is used to accomplish this with set logical principles and structure, by considering the laws of physics and past designs of rifles and exploiting these to accomplish the required measures.
A Te approach would consider Te functionality.... Te as in, what is the muzzle velocity of the rifle, what is its penetration depth into various kinds of materials, how efficient is it in a given battlefield setting. All these facts are gathered together and then discrete decisions are made like stacking dominoes to produce a final product.
At the end of the day its all the same but the approach is different, all NT's are great developers of technology, and all ST's are great operators of technology.... ST's hold an advantage over NT's in their concept of using technology in real life (in the rifle example... the soldier would have a perspective over an NT weapons designer in the implementation of the piece of technology).... NT's hold an advantage over ST's in their concept of how technology actually works and how to create it.
Example:
NT: Mission Control Engineers
ST: Astronaut
NT: Weapons Designer
ST: Solider
NT: Automotive Engineer
ST: Automotive Mechanic
NT: Electrical Engineer
ST: Electrician
NT: Computer Engineer and Software Developer
ST: System Operator and Technical Support
In all cases ST's are more tactile with their technology, needing to touch and operate it
NT's are more mental with their technology, needing to comprehend how the gears turn and it works
Gamma NT => Efficiency and Utility Designer, Firm Understanding of Effectivenessof Logical Components, Looks for ways to push the effectiveness and efficiency of a design, then attempts to imagine
a way of incorporating this into a system. Pushes limits of technology.
Alpha NT => Creative / Experimental Designer, Firm Understanding of Logical Structure, Looks for "Lightbulb"
like insight solutions to problems and sets out using the logical principles and laws of operation to make it happen. Source for new ideas.
Beta ST => Practical Operator, Uses gut sensory perception to simplisticly and effectively implement technology, understands the principle on which something operates
and can therefore draw upon that to surmise which situations are most practical for the technology to me implemented in. Finds best situations to use equipment in.
Delta ST => Efficient Operator, Understands limits and effectiveness and utility of instrument, and learns to utilize equipment as efficiently and effective as possible
. Finds best usage of equipment.
I find my thought process tends to favor the Alpha/Beta technology matchup more so than the Gamma/Delta matchup
You may say gammas have a good idea on practical circumstance because ofin their quadra values... but this is a value for gamma NTs not a STRENGTH.... the only place Se appears as a strength in the Gamma Quadra is when it is coupled with Fi... Gamma Se is more of a relationship based Se.... Gamma NTs greatly value this Se in relationships but don't know how to create it.
Beta Se is different, Beta Se is forceful implementation of structure and hierarchy, that is why beta is aristocratic, it appears as a STRENGTH in betas when it is coupled with Ti.... Beta NFs greatly value this structure and implementation but don't know how to create it.
Last edited by male; 12-08-2010 at 07:59 AM.
I'm not sure I understand your example, or its somewhat misleading me. Ti often more so specializes in a certain mechanical or structural knowledge base of something, and strives for modeling the performance or plan, etc. Te on the other hand would look more at the conceptual direction, would name things primarily for their functionality within the specific goal and it's logical reality, not for their designed purpose or meaning (internal workings, iow, of a scheme or structure), so that a subject or subjective experience is generalized and integrated into their sense of logical fluidity and they can work smoothly around foreign knowledge bases. Te would be more like "Is this going to work? If not then I'll try this." "I need the up-and-up so I can move on with the project. Save the technical jargon." Which, don't mistake as I like to point out, that a Te goal-first mentality is more significant to ETjs and their dominantly goal-oriented attitudes, just as active modeling is for the same primarily goal-oriented Ti doms, so I don't mean the generalized term "goal-first logic" as in IXTps are strongly goal-oriented, since Te is the area of creativity, just more as in the goal reflects the same external sense of logical orientation.
Te deals with the spatial recognition and physical processes of logical nomination and its effects, where as Ti seems to focus on the sequence of mathematical components, or the systematic calculation of different parts, so to speak. I guess each one develops a sense of structure, but I would call architecture more Te for its generalized lexicon. The perception of structure or architecture in Ti is definitely more internalized, basically where most of the deciding factors deduce or terminate and produce their effect.