Manifesto of architecture and a thought

OF INSIGNIFICNCE AND SIGNIFICANCE MANIFESTO OF ARCHITECTURE AND A THOUGHT

HOW MIGHTY CAN A LINE BE?

Lines, as simple as to draw yet as powerful as to envoy architecture, to lead, to communicate, and to create

How vast it can become when it divulges the creation of imagination, and yet one has to initiate to draw a line to begin with

Is not the beauty of architecture is the fact that it can embrace both the insignificant and the very significant in one line and yet can balance the both with the same precedence? If it is so, then what should be treated as insignificant or significant? What should be the measurement at all?

Mondrian, De stilj

Mies van der rohe, earlier composition work

An Azuma House, Tadao Ando

Muzharul Islam, Auditorium section, Chittagong University

Now, is not that the creativity depends on how one portrays a line to reveal the magic of thoughts through conception? But then again it is not just about lines so materialistic, mundane and physical but lines also as intangible, as ostensive and spiritual as the imagination can be. Lines that can divide land into two countries, that can limit freedom, restrict dreams, govern desires and yet again that can draw boundaries between right and wrong, genius and insanity, legal and illegal, are also there. So does a line only limit or does it also transform?

After all Architecture is how you end a line in the end. And architects the portraitists of lines are only to compose imagination to create. But it is the people who decide how a line should regulate them or how to regulate a line.

SO, HOW MIGHTY CAN A LINE BE?

Berlin wall

Louis Kahn, Salk Institute La Jolla, California

Le Corbusier, Philips Pavilion