We, find this constant honing of ones obsessions or preoccupations rather tiring. Also, with every project even if all are just homes, how can a singular debate solve or provide relevant solutions. Identifiable yes, purer and purer yes, however missing the mark by far.
More so in India, a country of such differences, Land, climate, social structure, aspirations, and many more. It would be blasphemy to create an architectural method that is identifiable and singular. The part that stings is world over practices are pursuing paths of spatial research, data based or invention hinged. Basically missing the core of the project. Something we call the SOUL. Missing the INTUITION, the artist is capable of….
Architecture is also seen, studied, and analyzed in a rather tired way, newness. It seems only newness, visual at most is recognized as ground breaking. Can data gathering result in good architecture? To us architecture is not a problem to solve but rather a celebration of peculiarities and aspirations, a mood not a message.
There is very little or no content based introverted thought on the genesis of common sense Architecture.
As a practice, which has dealt predominantly with homes, we have spent lot of time analyzing what we are meant to deliver? How to erase our own foolish preoccupations?
Look at birds, so many different, beautiful, and absolutely perfect beings.
The brief is the same ....However evolutionary mechanics has created each masterpiece based on its specificity. Can't our work be as informed or try to be as close to personality free and contextuallyloaded.
Tough ask this, the whole shaping of an architect at school and after is based on a case study model and being the,” art related”, profession it is , what we take in first is the visual not the visceral . The building blocks or thought processes become deeply engrained early on and naturally dictate how we even begin to see the world. Our methods provide easy paths.
Geoffrey Bawa, once remarked, “Too much architecture between me and the view”. Remarkable few words…..
Pure intuitive, experiential building of atmospheres. How difficult is that.
Different houses explore different THEMES, stories of the emotions that led to their birthing. Sites talk, they convey a lot, if you listen, intently.
When beginning the project, one carries the information and personality of the users within. Once on site, time is spent perceiving deeply, thinking but from the gut, no room for intellect to interfere in the process. Humility is a key, in understanding firsthand the essences.
Homes, are vessels for living, they embrace laughter, joy, family life, love, despair and painall the emotions we go through. They keep us warm, allow us to control our experience of the climes. A good home is like a loving parent…..
MORE THOUGHTS……
The eye and the camera are opposites, in the way they work….
The eye is at once, umbral - penumbral, flickering and registering in real-time the myriad, changes in mood and light, moods can change in a fraction or prolong over a still crimson morning.
The eyes perceive, they build in depth with apparent focus. The eyes relay and record, leaving a seemingly vivid impression of atmospheres which become cerebral preserves, fantasies suspended in the subconscious. Revoked at will and at times involuntarily with peculiar stimuli, a scent or temperature or a tune……
The camera, on the other hand, is feeble yet useful. It captures a still, with the intensity of a kind of precise jab at the moment in time. Producing the closest there is to a shared experience of the space or mood of the moment.
Perhaps architectural or spatial photography is the most challenging as there is no animated subject, rather a kind of still somber space, however in the right hands, a camera can elevate the image beyond words and relate a story.
As architects, we tell specific stories of locales, climates, atmospheric content and imaginings of life lived therein. A photograph conveys so much more than the written word, primarily because again the eyes take over! The eyes transform the printed image into a phantasmagorical reality for a fleeting moment immersing the reader into the story being related.
There can never be any equal experience than sauntering through spaces, pausing to take in the nuances of light, shade, depth, vibrancy of color, rustle of leaves, wisps of air, sounds of birds and the crunch of gravel underfoot.
On a recent trip to Angkor Wat, humbled by the magnificence of the ancient relics, we experienced a sudden burst of torrid rain, like the sky just opening up and weeping in joy, at 4:30 pm, in the golden light of the sun at an acute angle.
It was like time and place twisted into each other to show us how magical this planet is and how its beauty is revealed abruptly and unabashedly just for 15 minutes. No one clicked a picture; some moments are best left to the spectacle of Nature.
A realization came to us the best picture is the one you never clicked. There is however a need to document our world projects and stories there in.At best we can relate to the simplicity of a photograph, to its directness and detached nature of reporting just the visual. Light, texture, sky, movement, depth, contrast, vibrancy, perspective etc. …. It’s when the quality of a picture that goes beyond mere reporting to establishing a deep connect with the essence of image that it etches words and feelings , it becomes poetic .
'>We, find this constant honing of ones obsessions or preoccupations rather tiring. Also, with every project even if all are just homes, how can a singular debate solve or provide relevant solutions. Identifiable yes, purer and purer yes, however missing the mark by far.
More so in India, a country of such differences, Land, climate, social structure, aspirations, and many more. It would be blasphemy to create an architectural method that is identifiable and singular. The part that stings is world over practices are pursuing paths of spatial research, data based or invention hinged. Basically missing the core of the project. Something we call the SOUL. Missing the INTUITION, the artist is capable of….
Architecture is also seen, studied, and analyzed in a rather tired way, newness. It seems only newness, visual at most is recognized as ground breaking. Can data gathering result in good architecture? To us architecture is not a problem to solve but rather a celebration of peculiarities and aspirations, a mood not a message.
There is very little or no content based introverted thought on the genesis of common sense Architecture.
As a practice, which has dealt predominantly with homes, we have spent lot of time analyzing what we are meant to deliver? How to erase our own foolish preoccupations?
Look at birds, so many different, beautiful, and absolutely perfect beings.
The brief is the same ....However evolutionary mechanics has created each masterpiece based on its specificity. Can't our work be as informed or try to be as close to personality free and contextuallyloaded.
Tough ask this, the whole shaping of an architect at school and after is based on a case study model and being the,” art related”, profession it is , what we take in first is the visual not the visceral . The building blocks or thought processes become deeply engrained early on and naturally dictate how we even begin to see the world. Our methods provide easy paths.
Geoffrey Bawa, once remarked, “Too much architecture between me and the view”. Remarkable few words…..
Pure intuitive, experiential building of atmospheres. How difficult is that.
Different houses explore different THEMES, stories of the emotions that led to their birthing. Sites talk, they convey a lot, if you listen, intently.
When beginning the project, one carries the information and personality of the users within. Once on site, time is spent perceiving deeply, thinking but from the gut, no room for intellect to interfere in the process. Humility is a key, in understanding firsthand the essences.
Homes, are vessels for living, they embrace laughter, joy, family life, love, despair and painall the emotions we go through. They keep us warm, allow us to control our experience of the climes. A good home is like a loving parent…..
MORE THOUGHTS……
The eye and the camera are opposites, in the way they work….
The eye is at once, umbral - penumbral, flickering and registering in real-time the myriad, changes in mood and light, moods can change in a fraction or prolong over a still crimson morning.
The eyes perceive, they build in depth with apparent focus. The eyes relay and record, leaving a seemingly vivid impression of atmospheres which become cerebral preserves, fantasies suspended in the subconscious. Revoked at will and at times involuntarily with peculiar stimuli, a scent or temperature or a tune……
The camera, on the other hand, is feeble yet useful. It captures a still, with the intensity of a kind of precise jab at the moment in time. Producing the closest there is to a shared experience of the space or mood of the moment.
Perhaps architectural or spatial photography is the most challenging as there is no animated subject, rather a kind of still somber space, however in the right hands, a camera can elevate the image beyond words and relate a story.
As architects, we tell specific stories of locales, climates, atmospheric content and imaginings of life lived therein. A photograph conveys so much more than the written word, primarily because again the eyes take over! The eyes transform the printed image into a phantasmagorical reality for a fleeting moment immersing the reader into the story being related.
There can never be any equal experience than sauntering through spaces, pausing to take in the nuances of light, shade, depth, vibrancy of color, rustle of leaves, wisps of air, sounds of birds and the crunch of gravel underfoot.
On a recent trip to Angkor Wat, humbled by the magnificence of the ancient relics, we experienced a sudden burst of torrid rain, like the sky just opening up and weeping in joy, at 4:30 pm, in the golden light of the sun at an acute angle.
It was like time and place twisted into each other to show us how magical this planet is and how its beauty is revealed abruptly and unabashedly just for 15 minutes. No one clicked a picture; some moments are best left to the spectacle of Nature.
A realization came to us the best picture is the one you never clicked. There is however a need to document our world projects and stories there in.At best we can relate to the simplicity of a photograph, to its directness and detached nature of reporting just the visual. Light, texture, sky, movement, depth, contrast, vibrancy, perspective etc. …. It’s when the quality of a picture that goes beyond mere reporting to establishing a deep connect with the essence of image that it etches words and feelings , it becomes poetic .
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