It’s sobering to think about how fundamentally architecture affects and rules our lives. For millennia we as a species have been living, working and dying inside spaces created by the human imagination – or the palpable lack of it. If our homes are meant to be “our castles” – God help us all! Most of us (unblessed by coffers of cash) valiantly do our utmost to make the best of our homes. And our homes are to some degree an extension of who we are. Likewise, our public buildings and spaces.
Architecture Week offers us the opportunity to really think about and muse upon this oft neglected part of our lives. The hype, the nonsense, the ridiculous architectural divas and their ego trips, the glorious attempts to house humanity and its endeavours – in other words, the love, the pain and the whole damn thing of …Architecture.
