Place Ethics

20.12.2022

Isha Suhail

The same popular debatable concept ‘spirit of the place’ is misread or misunderstood by many. Yes, we point out and accuse capitalism for our copy-paste practices in offices, which is not wrong, but at the same time, are architects themselves recognising their role in accepting their responsibilities for their structural identities while designing w.r.t. the context? I remember our first years are always about recognising our histories, identity, spirit, revolving around the ‘context’. The great gap between theory and practice is not touching that foundation again. The time of realisation is that our (not-so-old) structures are even part of vernacular architecture, holding memory of maybe some poets, painters, writers, or labourers etc. sitting around, or even just stopping by those places for a few minutes. Today ‘reconstructing’ practices that are being seen, deny all of that entirely. Reproducing something from what, then? So the argument shapes if it’s important for us to retain past from which we’re going to be identified, with which wherever we go we stay connected, or while ‘deleting’ this whole point, let’s merge within the land of identical objects.

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Color in Architecture 

Isha Suhail

27.11.2022
03.12.2022

So the fact that we humans tend to separate our own spaces, more like privatise them. But while doing this it seems like we’re discriminating towards ‘outsides’. Chromophobia - a desired deletion of colors, as interestingly put by David Batchelor, is what being seen practiced around. Again, in the name of minimalism, an endless emptiness, uninterrupted or rather ‘uninterruptable’, the white interiors are rendering us insignificant. In some way we draw into seeing color and white as opposites. Coming from the western cultures or I don’t know, the dominance of white is creating disquieting anxieties which are not being able to bridge between standardisation and personalisation (Adolf’s theory), w.r.t. embrasing colors that are already within us in the form of nature. So the argument arises if common grounds must be considered that spaces are controlled in a way, not to go too subjective (which may go wrong to the personal preferences) or too regular (which can imply an ideology).

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