There is no House without Imagination
Thursday, July 26, 2007
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after establishing the imagination/reality, mind/body synthesis in phenomenology thinking. i relapse into the compartmentalization of domestic vs outside, real vs imagined dichotomy(reconciliation)
1. i PLACED imagination ABOVE reality and demanded change. like heidegger’s all encompassing concept of dasein.
2. likewise, if reality is placed ONTOP of imagination, i will be overwhelmed by politics, social and technology mass orgy. like bachelard avoiding them in forwarding everything can be experienced via poetics.
so now, can we design the ideal house?
NO.
becoz it lies in the realm of imagined for it to be real. and it needs reality for it to depart from into imagination. like a lung, it breathes and exchanges air all the time for its survival.
there is no such thing as the Platonic Form, The Ideal.
in fact domesticity is played out in the east coast park caravans, kopitiams, love hotels, cafes, movie theatres, the cone of light emanated from ur study lamp at 3am... not merely at HOME.
“Design a house”, hence becomes a misnomer, it is an act something EVERYONE engages in, not merely architects.
in short, in this age of individualism, everyone thinks they can think for everyone. doing so, shaping their "individuality" from everyone "else".
if akitects dun think along this line of idealism in a way constructed somehow or another, they become lost in anonymity. nihilist. from time immemorial, they need to deal with "unseen" bad ideas, and from time immemorial, certain solutions are derived almost similarly.
THIS IS THE ZEITGEIST OF OUR TIME.
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