Monday, July 31, 2006

"Here's a thought :"

Often enough as a student one is faced with the dilemma of a ‘study’ and its architecture. And often enough one mistakes architecture to belong, thus making ‘space’. And thus adhering to a ‘context’. I had invented the same dilemmas in my thesis as well closing options for the flexibility of an experiment. Because somewhere if architecture needs to start borrowing from other art-related faculties or absolutely any other faculty at all, there needs to be a release from ‘place’ or what we call ‘an environment’. Because to express in the ‘real’ is just the tactility of architecture and when one tries to mould the inherent logic of one discipline into the expression of another, I really don’t know what the language of communication remains. I believe architecture needs to be ‘established’ (and when I say established, I mean organized into), more fluid dimensions, at least of expression, if not of understanding built form itself.
One random definition of architecture I came across was - ‘(It is) a subjective mapping from a human perspective of the elements or components of some kind of structure or system, which preserves the relationships among the elements/components.’ What is significant here is the use of the word ‘subjective’, which in its own way relates back to context, to belong within set parameters.. further architecture belongs within relationships, which to me means order, hierarchy, system, so never really releasing itself from ‘being’. Then how is it that there exists such a concept as the spacio-temporal, the so called flexibility of architecture or the architecture of a non-commital form? These ofcourse do belong and exist, much beyond just being terms and the best example is that of a film/movie. Where a 3 dimensional space actually belongs within two dimensions and it is your imagination that is creating the third dimension, making the formative third dimension an actual dependent on time. Making time itself the third dimension of space. And since that is ever changing, it gives birth to space which isn't essentially permanent/tactile but yet not non-existant. That then puts me on the debate that is imagination the only essential to such architecture. Does that mean that architecture can be read only if it chooses to be explicit. Or else it becomes self – referential, imaginary, fictitious, a non-real entity?
I don’t really know the answer to the question, but then is event architecture a reality? Or is 'program' the maximum that an event can go to before 'architecture' takes over?!

4 Comments:

Blogger adv said...

isnt it the classic deconstructivist way, to take things out of their context to understand them for what they really are...?
...im not sure subjectives necessarily relate back to context... unless they are routed via biases?

Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:45:00 AM  
Blogger blink blank link said...

wow i dint think of it to be deconstructivist actually while imagining a possibility of that sort... i'm sure i had pretty much forgotten all those terms and it infact took me a while to relate back. but none-the-less i would think decon. also deals compulsively with seeing the 'object' over and out of anything thats subject. whereas my debate is that context itself differs so much from discipline to discipline simply because each ones way of expression is different, which in turn means each one looks at the same object (context) differently. so then when one tries to borrow from the other what can a plausible exchange be? a common line...
well comparison is the base of being subjective, so i dont really know how much one can avoid a bias.
devoid of comparison one is considered to be objective, no?

Thursday, August 03, 2006 12:00:00 PM  
Blogger adv said...

ur right... something more that i could add here is what came up in a discussion a few days back... that architecture's problem is that it reall has no theory of its own. it sall borrowed, from the humanities, the arts... which brings me to a question whether architecture has any context of its own at all...?

Thursday, August 03, 2006 7:46:00 PM  
Blogger blink blank link said...

hmmm... yeah this 'architecture having no theory of its own' had actually come up when i was in college...
imagine an art form that has a borrowed base and still incapable of conversing with any of its counterparts. tragedy i wud say!
i guess the only real theory that architecture has is its tactility (maybe by default), but its 'form' or 'space' is probably the only reality about it!

Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:51:00 AM  

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