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March 15, 2005
Some questions about architecture that address that part of architecture that is not shaped by the dominant banal commerical logic of the developers.
Does architecture form the framework of life?
Does it just provide comfort and convenience for daily life? Well, I for one, want more than that. Most architectural forms I have inhabited either at home or work have provided neither comfort nor convenience.
Does architecture do anything more than that? Something else? Something unsaid? I yearn for that.
Does it subvert what is normal, expected and taken for granted in our daily lives? Should it?
Does it's form cut through to the contradictions we live and retain them in their intensity?
Does it give rise to a critical dialogue withe urban context and our mode of life?
Most of the architecture we see fits smoothly into the international magazines and websites. Can it move beyond this to give expression to a new form of dwelling?
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