THEORY/PROCESS/BLOG

One of the central themes about this project is PROCESS. In fact, the project itself has been described as a moving target. A good way of describing the projects philosophical process is a quote from LA architect, Michael Rotundi – shoot the arrow, then move the target…bullsie every time.

The central premise of the studio is that there is a differentiation between BUILDING and ARCHITECTURE. The differentiation being that architecture is about the IDEA. It is the IDEA that transforms the practical everyday act of building into something else – something greater – architecture.

So lets stop talking about the architecture, and talk about the IDEA. This project as become a project about ideas. And because we are talking about the IDEA and creation of IDEAS which leads us to CREATITY – another central theme of the studio.

What is creativity, and where does come from? Another central premise of the project revolves around the understanding of creativity as merely relationships. Te create something, whether it is an IDEA or a physical object, is to establish a relationship of proximity and/or order; and through this relationship, two separate things become fused/transformed. Something NEW is created.

With this in mind, part of this project has been to focus on RELATIONSHIPS, and the creation of relationships. It is the NARRATIVE that is the tool/method the project is using to establish/understand relationships.

The ideas of the blog are many, and layered. But on a general level, they are exercises in CREATING relationships. The intent is to exercise the “creative muscle.” Additionally, the blog provides a method of bringing together text/image/movement in a very easy/fast way.

The intention is that these posts are SKETCHES. quick, sometimes sloppy – just getting ideas out there, not necessarily worrying about how the idea is REPRESENTED. Additionally, through the accumulation if IDEAS, and examining the RELATIONSHIPS between these IDEAS themselves (which are themselves relationships) – it is the aspiration that a higher level of understanding will occur.

Additionally, its the desire to "tap" the outside world as a resource. no point to wait until the end (final review) for outside feedback. so please have a look at some of the Students (and my) posts/narratives.

http://studio-narratives.blogspot.com/