What is space?
What is architecture?
Is architecture the definition of space?
Do bodies define space?
Can bodies define architecture?
Do movements define space?
Can movements define architecture?
Can space be defined by immaterials?
Are immaterials adequate for defining space?
What immaterials can define space?
What immaterials cannot define space?
Do these immaterials then define our activities?
Do these immaterials then confine us to a space?
What is the materiality of architecture?
Why be contained to specific places for specific activities?
Can our activities define our space?
Can architecture happen anywhere and anytime we are active?
Can our bodies and our desires create architecture?
If space is immaterial, how do we understand it?
If architecture is immaterial, how do we perceive our actions to take place within it?
If architecture is immaterial, how do we perceive our bodies to be positioned within it?
Our bodies and our activities define architecture; architecture facilitates our needs.
A space to rest, a space to cook, a space to love, a space to learn. The definition of ‘architecture’ has taken a turn from being a shelter and providing a haven for us from harsh elements, to something that our activities are now confined to and defined by.
We need to bring architecture down from its high horse and redefine its status: Architecture exists because we exist. Architecture is an index of the body: no body, no architecture. Architecture cannot and must not exist without the body.
Once we remove the physical excess of material architecture, we find ourselves to be bare. We have become accustomed to taking shelter, hiding, secluding and positioning ourselves in our architecture. It is a materiality we have accepted because we all suffer from the same weakness of running away to hide in our architectures. We separate ourselves from each other in it. We divide ourselves up in it. We shut ourselves up in it. We suffer multiple layers of separation from ourselves, each other, our society, humanity as a whole and nature explicitly.
What if we never became sedentary and continued to live as nomads?
What if we continued to live as self-sufficient, small hunter-gatherer units?
What if we had not lost the knowledge of our ancestors?
What if we never industrialized for mass production?
What if we lived off the land (the land in our immediate vicinity)?
What if we took only what we needed at the moment?
What if our tribes all accepted each other’s differences?
What if we intermingled instead of conquered?
What race would we be?
What language would we speak?
What religions would we believe?
What would religion be?
What would our culture be?
What if no money changed hands?
What if we kept a barter economy?
What if we understood fair value in everything?
What would our technological advancement be?
What would our economical advancement be?
What would our education system be?
What would we strive for?
What would our architecture be?
What would our fashion be?
What would our lifestyle be?
Where would our interests lie?