Architecture, or most of it anyway, is a
public good: what any one person or institution builds, others must live
with. Today, there is a danger of buildings
becoming architecturally barren, soulless places rather than considered
structures enclosing special public spaces.
All too often, designed “iconic” buildings are indeed objects, and often
vanity projects designed to show off the aspirations and egos of certain
clients and architects. This situation surely produces buildings
that reliably serve clients’ interests, but less reliably serve the
public. How to shift the balance of
power so that the rest of us get buildings and places that are good for us
too? Never let anyone forget that
architecture is not like the other arts.
Architecture envelops us all. Everyone sees and experiences it. Architecture
is an art that everybody deserves to enjoy precisely because it constitutes the
life of our inhabited places. The level of engagement acted out and
demanded by the public must be reflected
in architecture. Architecture should elevate public
experience by providing opportunities for heightened sensations. Space should be a series of sequential
and hierarchical spaces with a driving narrative of experience. Architecture is
more than just a result of emotion. There
is so much opposition and contradiction at play, because when you design, you
design with your whole body. It is the way you are bought up; it is in the
culture, it goes back into your own history.
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