Shree

Shree 

There are two thoughts, I feel, that can inform architecture...

Idea or a concept can have different meanings in different fields. In architecture, it has a particular meaning. But, even as architecture, a concept may be born from other ideas or values or inquiries that an architect would be carrying in a nebulous state throughout his/ her life. Those would come together when an opportunity would present itself. In that sense, architecture bears a stamp of ideas which could basically suggest a _relationship_ or a _connection_. Therefore by looking at a building, is it required to understand all ideas behind its making? Or the onlooker infuses new ideas in the building itself, even if they wouldn't perhaps have been in the consciousness of the designer?! Or this possibility itself means it hardly matters what sort of ideas come to whom while designing and seeing?...i.e. the building appears just an incidence?!!

Secondly, as pieces of objects sitting on separate plots in a city, perhaps what one is seeing in the city, is a collage of relationships within the objects and between the objects. Now those relationships expressed by each object (and between the objects) can become architectonic, environmental, social, cultural, philosophical or a combination of all. That is to say, those inform an experience. 

Hari Om.