I am an Architect. Seriously.
I’m further refining what I feel is needed within this discourse we call Architecture. I’m trying to find what I can bring to the attention of many through a blog. The more I think about it, the more I feel we as a profession tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. That is what this post is going to be about. I believe it’ll end up a recurring theme on this blog. All the little images that come with this blog are from a post on the AIA first seen on lifewithoutbuildings.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I believe what we as a profession are doing is serious. I wouldn’t have committed over a third of my life to it if I didn’t believe this is so. There is something beautiful about how Architecture can affect us in ways that we are aware of, and subconsciously. Though this is another topic for another time.
The point I’m fumbling over (because I only ever fumble when I write. My hands clumsily fall across the keyboard in some irregular manner. As Architects we are taught to convey through drawing. I took this all too seriously, abandoned grammar and picked up the roll of trace losing a large part of what they taught in High School English in the process) is that sometimes we need satire in this profession.
There are 100’s, no wait 1000’s, of blogs on Architecture. There are discussions and comment sessions going on that make the head of any “normal” person spin. We as Architects know we are not “normal”. I don’t know too many “normal” people that stay up for days, striving toward an unforseeable end to a project. Here lies a small but significant problem with Architecture. I find that through our rantings we isolate the very people we set out to effect.
So satire, yes. It is important. I’m not 100% sure why just yet.
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