Get In Formation

Get In Formation

Architecture has long been a "form" of expression, a sense of one's feelings about special conditions that influence the way the public or private inhabitants react while inside and outside of the building. These "forms" often times, unfortunately, are only construed in the eyes of the design and their approach to the design processes that ultimately become the built environment that we experience on a daily basic. The consciousness that an architect takes in "forming" these ideas or theories of these structures can often times create, what has been deemed, JUNKSPACE, a catastrophic instances of wasted space that occurs internally and externally. 

                                          Taichung City Cultural Center

I believe that function is vital in producing the "form" of good architecture. Legendary architects such as Peter Eisenman and Daniel Libeskind, follow a different set of theories that have made some of their works controversial. Relying on the architecture to convey their ideas of a successful design makes them targets for critiques, both professional and amateur, to experience their works in a way that doesn't understand the "JUNKSPACE" created by the architecture not following any kind of programming.

                                          WTF

In our studies, I feel like this approach to design is quite backwards. I suppose, as architects with budgets, community activist, and a political yet personal opinion of those in the neighborhoods in which our designs are built, restricts the outlandish beauty of design but promotes the usefulness of the architecture in a human scale that the average Starchitect doesn't often experience. Our "forms" largely are an everyday experience, not an attraction; a necessity, not an option.