Control
John Habraken's ideas on architecture were an interesting read, particularly the idea of control in his book The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment. I had never considered the idea of personally possessing all architecture. Our architectural education, for sure, encourages the idea of claiming your project and ideas as your own but I had not considered it with the entirety of the built environment. I question if this is only an architect's viewpoint or all people... do all people possess all architecture?
That is why the concept that was presented to us about the changing of Le Corbusier's Quartiere Fruges in Pessac is promising. Even a project built by a famous architect, people were taking back control. This is an idea I can get behind. Overall, what makes architects think that they are worthy of changing everyone's everyday experiences?
Ashley, I think you bring up a really interesting point. In the film for this week, there's a discussion about architecture school slowly transforming the way it's students think. Looking up after a few years, and suddenly all your peers are wearing black and white clothes, that sort of thing. But there's also this idea that's promoted in architecture school about loving form. And I think that definitely draws back to what you said about having a feeling of possession over your designs.
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