poiesicz Here, techne was the dimension of revelatory knowledge about the world, and poimls
was the dimension of creative, symbolic representation. Techne made no distinction
between the theoretical and the practical. Making was understood as the embodiment of if
knowledge and ideas; we could say that craft was motivated. This unity fell apart in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Techne bemme a separate body of instrumental or productive knowledge, and poicsis became an autonomous creation of subjective and aesthetic
• reality this separation coincided with the origin of modern science (technology) and modem aesthetics (art). lt also involved an irretrievable alteration of the role of theory in architectural production.