Beyond a Linear Process

Abstract

My experience of learning and creating architecture has been a linear process. A process that begins with the formation of concept. The concept is applied to a series of operations; plans, sections, details and models, with a central focuses on the final outcome; a representation of the concept in architecture. By the virtue of this process a project is treated as a vehicle for predisposed meaning, the architecture a text from which the original concept can be read.

Questioning of this process is evident when architects such as Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, make the statement "A building cannot be read like a book, it does not have any credits, subtitle or labels like pictures in a gallery. " Their statement is a reaction to the dominant relationship of the role of the intellectual concept over the experience of space in the reasoning creating architecture.