manifesto

architecture exists in the collective mind only as an accumulation of moments and situations. It extends its meaning beyond the limit of materiality and form by inevitably becoming a ritual.

when such rituals are practised repetitiously, certain meanings are carried forward to the future and upon a wider audience, hence become visible. This is the only meaningful way, I consider, for architecture to offer commentary to the society, the brief, or the client.

it should be noted that such commentaries are inevitably autobiographical on the one hand, projection of the framented ego (individual/collective; the lack of perfect coordination between theory and reality) onto a physical, consistent form (the built object); and on the other hand, completely alienated from the original context as it becomes spreaded through simplification as symbols.

my vision of architecture is therefore a series of parts loosely bound together by a symbolic order, not so much as a statement (technical, social, formal.....) but more as dialectics, conversations that are artificially put on stage (ritualized?) and which are incapable of finding an end.