Everyday ideology

Everyday ideology

I found Habraken’s thoughts very appealing to myself. I enjoyed his points about change, education, social context, everyday urbanism and research questions (my favourite topic)but  I want to talk about reality and ideology.

He counterposes ideology and reality, envision architecture as a bifurcated science, draw the gap between self image and reality. Architects are definitely not a marginalized group, our job is inevitably related to everyday routines. Our routines is indirectly affected by ideology of the city, state, country, ideology of our own beliefs. Architecture is not only about structure, material physics, it reflects contemporary problems, ideology, culture. We creating fossils for the future generations that they will read our cities as a book of civilization. I feel that reality, ideology and architecture are going in step with each other, informing and testing the durability of our everyday’s life.

He was talking about discrepancy of school-real life model. We do not need to suffer from it’s dichotomy, we need to improve our school mode - by bringing ideology, culture and practice closer to each other. I feel the necessity of taking business courses, economy, sociology. It is important to work close with other departments and disciplines, have common projects with urban planning department. We can have shared lectures with them, discussions, work and shared working space. Why we isolate ourselves.? Architecture is not autonomous, not any more.

There is no conflict between ideology and reality. We should mediate, collaborate and try to get our profession out of this enclosed LHC.

P.S. We can have fun with our knowledge and not be in conflict with any type of ideology, just by showing how it is.

Estudio 3.14, rendering from “Prison Wall Project” (2016)