Everything Comes Down to the Person at the Bottom
It is so heart-breakening to think about the way cities work. Pershaps, it is fair to say that this applies to the majority of cities around the world. Cities are dense places where jobs are needed. Yet almost all the people who occupy these jobs are not living in these cities. Capitalism had driven housing prices through outer space. The situation worsened in all aspects when political leaders decided to take actions upon others for selfish reasons. Have you check the grocery store lately? I went today. A small can of crab meat is $51. Yes! FIFTY ONE DOLLARS for one pound. This is crazy. I remember it being twenty something dollars a few months ago. Imagine the effect this has on the housing industry!
Current situation of the cities and the worldwide effect from the Russian-Ukraine war made me thinking … what is the role of architecture? Certainly from the perspective of a graduating student, the millions dollars apartments or $22,000 per month apartments are way out of reach. Architecture from this perspective is no longer for people. It became a means to serve the hungry greed of capitalism. Forests had already been cleared to be a place for buildings and all the associated elements (sidewalks, roads, green patches, parking lots, etc.) It is already BAD.
Why then should we also for these buildings to be only accessible to the wealthy serving as investments and barely being occupied?
Architecture for thousands of years had evolved around people and the gathering of people. What would architecture look like if we no longer design for that? But rather, architecture is some means of investments that could either be tangible or intangibe?
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