The Other Architect Maheshika Name Madurawalage Supervisor: Supervisor: Ian Nazareth
Any given reader will derive from a text something that will be different to that of another. Any text can have multiple meanings. The user will derive from a building, an experience, a meaning, very different from that of the architect. In The Other Architect’s firm, the role of the creative user is as important as that of the architect, neither is superior to that of the other. The aim was to challenge and remodel the relationship of the skilled/professional and the unskilled rather than the physical product of architecture and it is tested by retooling the architectural practice. This project is a reform, not a revolution. The new architect is no longer an author, but a scripter. The new user is no longer just part of the cast, but a contributor. The new architect and the new user together create The Other Architect.