The death of Architecture - a draft

THE DEATH OF ARCHITECTURE

THE DEATH OF A We are heading towards an ocular centric society.

A society that is driven to the visual aesthetics of space, regardless of it giving us more. Spaces cannot esist in a vaccum that can only be seen.

“The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory.”

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

What brings life to Architecture?

What is hapticity?

What is a tangible space?

Putting forth these questions is a step closer to understanding the paradox we are currently in

ARCHITECTURE The year 2021 has had our feild of vision limited to a screen. Thereforewhat we see is what we intrepret. A space can only truly be understood with all our senses.

“The body knows and remembers. Architectural meaning derives from archaic responses and reactions remembered by the body and the senses.”

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

The future we are heading towards might just be the prophecy that we were trying to avoid.

Para phrasing Nietzsche “God is dead and we have killed him” Have we done the same for Architecture?