Everybody is An Architect
Made In Tokyo brought up a good point that sometimes the world around us just simply can not be designed. If that is the case, then it is certainly gloomy to think about the design profession and its future. Am I right?
On the other hand, I feel like that maybe anyone should learn a little bit about design and building things. It is practical knowledge, it is kind of like playing and who knows when time comes one might be asked to design or to build something. After all don't we all live in a world that is constantly changed by us?
Sometimes, I feel like figures like Koolhsaas is like a god like figure and he is in charge of the universe or at least the earth and I don't think anyone can do a better job than him(maybe except Herzog & de Meuron), but on the other hand I feel like the everyday people can always find a way to reclaim what they want thru their ways of fighting it back. Building in crevices, graffiti to wall, plant flowers...
So to ease my anxiety that I have about the profession and its future. I like to pretend to be someone that I am not, person like George Costanza.
Hello Zach,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy this idea of architecture and specifically “building architecture” as a seminal coursework in curriculums. I think it offers the world a discourse to build upon, knowledge of various subjects, and an opportunity to consider building for themselves. Chief among these ideas is the discussion of the public realm. Is it too much to hope that through architecture we might learn to care more deeply for each other. Our first responsibility is to the public realm.