VOL III. ARCHITECTURE AND COLLAGE

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Collage is omnipresent.

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Even Frankenstein was a collage.

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A man, manmade from body parts of the dead sutured together and sparked to life by a current of electricity. This is fiction. An audacious concept that challenges nature itself with several implications in the script for introspection of man’s belief in god, nature and his own prowess in the line of life cycles.

Manmade also, is architecture. Seamless on its surface, but made from a myriad of units; complexly woven together, layered and masked into one monolithic identity. The built form is a collage underneath. This is no sagacious understanding of architecture other than an obvious observation. A collage, fairly incoherent, is a framework set from nostalgia for nostalgia. Could it be an urbanity kneading an esoteric vitality?

 

Buildings are a product of a combined effort of a team of various professionals, most visibly dealing and delivering in areas of the quantifiable tangibles that are imperative to the program and its construction. Whilst the dna of the building gets refined, one still thirsts an architectural mutation. A real area of collaboration which would lead to innovation in its various aspects and most particularly its tectonics, would be that of the architect and his technocrat, the craftsman; a collaborative of the head and the hands. This collaborative remains conspicuously unexplored and uninitiated, except for a handful of projects in the last decade. A pool of knowledge and resources, intellectual and empirical, when allowed an un-impeding expression, could bring forth a whole new vocabulary in architecture.