A beautiful Essay on the racial experience of Architecture

A beautiful essay on the racial experience of architecture

Architecture can be about a lot of arrogant bullshiting, so it is nice for once to see someone trying to combat the facadism of rhetorical architectural metaphores in order to bring about a relevant architecture of experience. It is no wonder that the RIBA is engaging in professional protectionism in the face of royal criticism when the identifyable hallmarks of the profession are irrelevant post-justifications.

This is different to Stephen Hole and Palaasma's "eyes of the skin" experience which over the last few years quickly rose to rhetorical popularity and quickly spawned textural catchphrases in university critiques. This is about experience directly tempered and altered by the ethnographic character of it's users rather than the haptic qualities of materials.

If architecture is to succeed in it's role of mediator and advocate between the dichotomy of values and components which form a building, then ethnographic discussion is unnavoidable, and architects need to lower their walls of rhetoric which effectively halt the open and honest communication required. Then we will be able to answer the questions demanded of us in an open and honest fashion. Then even our biggest detractors in the public realm will respect us for our integrity.