ARCHITECTURE OF SEVEN SENSES

“The current over-emphasis on the intellectual and conceptual dimensions of architecture further contributes to a disappearance of the physical, sensual and embodied essence of architecture.”

The problem of modern architects is not the fact that they want to be different but the fact that they are not. They have the need to create things no one has ever seen before but in that need they lose themselves. Modern architects do not think about people but rather about fame. They are taking something sacred and turning it into deplete. They do not think about peoples needs, comfort, privacy and freedom. They take it for granted. Yet ,they do not live in the world they made up for others. Making private spaces public, or totally ignoring the fact that people need to use their toilet or cook in their own house.
Architects make rooms where people do not feel comfortable, they shrink living rooms in order to extend the hallway. Architect became pervs and their design useless. Architecture should be eternal, not ridiculous. Architecture should change the world. Architecture is for people and there is no life in sterile architecture.
Every space has its own characteristics; smell, sound, texture etc. It triggers our memory, it takes us places.
If a door handle is the handshake of the building why do modern buildings have doors that slide or remote controlled doors? They are no more handles, no more handshakes. If that is a welcome, I do not want it. Just as with people, weak handshake does not mean very good first impression.

If primitive man used their body as the dimension tool and proportional system then why do we keep making spaces where we can not live in? Architecture is not just the façade it is space, space for a better and bigger cause, where people are raised and where memories are created.

Abstract faces represent me through time; youth, puberty and present. Same face but different positions, different state of mind. Colors I choose represent emotions I felt in a saturated, more light form. Pink represents an innocent girl I used to be, a Barbie dolls and my own name, Barb(ara)y. Blue represents a stage of growing up, and becoming a young girl with her own opinions. Shades of purple represent new emotions, jealousy and wanting to be someone.
Still being confused with who or what I want to be, my drawing represents chaos. Chaos of personas, chaos of mind chaos of opinions, chaos of values, chaos of morality and chaos of freedom through time and space.
Lines in the background represent movement, a 3D effect, and brush strokes follow the outline of faces. Using acrylic I want to accomplish a specific structure and thickness.

An index, that represents firstness signifies my nose and his flows, his shape and form. It shows time in present, it is a close up of me. It has no perception on it’s own, a still picture that we are not aware of. When you start noticing it, it becomes secondness and it is already a past. An icon that you understand. A past that is woven with present. It is still there, just not in you conscious. After that it becomes a context. A context of matter. Something you see all the time, but not bothered by it anymore. It is immediately a matter of perception, you like it or you don’t. Weather it is something subjective or objective (if that even exists) it is a matter of opinion. My nose as a symbol, tiredness, stands alone. It is there, but I do not think about it. When it become a part of my context it stopped being important, it stopped being noticeable.