Architectural Artefact of Inquiry

Phase I _ Awareness
I have realised that architecture has become easily consumable.

Humanity has made enormous developments. As we progress into a technological century, we are confronted with the repercussions. Through dissemination of architectural knowledge and with social media, architecture has become easily consumable. Our ability to consume and digest new architecture has changed the components of inquiry process as well as space and time intimacy. The reduction in the time frame of procurement, resulted in increased gap between thinking process and architecture.

Phase II _ Dislocation
I have been struggling to reclaim architectural thinking process.

How can the consumption process relate with the idea of ‘architectural artefact of inquiry’? Dislocation was the spark that makes me think about the tension between artefact and consumption. Drawings and models act as the artefacts in being reflective of the architects’ detailed study of precedents, and blended knowledge of contemporary and historic. Thinking process of today’s architecture is disrupted by architectural artefacts which are remarkable and unusual. They tell stories with their lines, planes and points.

Phase II makes them stop, makes them think and makes them question.