![]() All of those seems exciting and provides our profession with a new site to design architecture in and it will secure the future of the profession. It still looks cartoonish now (remember Nintendo wii) but it will eventually reach to a point where it represents our physical world and/or other worldly beyond. Metaverse is different that it offers us to experience space and architecture with our own freedom without riding in the script of a movie or video game. It branches off to include movie sets (miniature or full size), still physical, and then to virtual world of digital sets in science fiction movies and video games. In the old days, architecture is physical. Non-fungible token (NFT) and now metaverse open a new world for the architecture profession. That is why Japanese architecture can accept and adopt the idea of modernism well, especially minimalism. Now it is time we care about our public spaces and apply what we have learned to design these spaces so democracy can flourish and spread out.īetween three east Asian traditional architecture of China, Korea, and Japan, the most ornate and decorative is Chinese, followed by Korea and Japan being the least. We learned how we prepare and deal with potential negative experiences on our streets in The Uses of Sidewalk by Jane Jacobs. We learned how we can collectively contribute to segregation in Community Becomes Uncivilized by Richard Sennett. We learned how buildings can contribute negatively to our streets in Fortress L.A. We learned how we instinctively behave on the street when faced with a perceived danger in Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom by Elijah Anderson. We learned about listening from Slim’s Table by Mitchell Duneier. Thus, the design and quality of these spaces, undoubtedly, influence our behavior. Our behavior in these spaces defines how successful democracy will be. While tolerance is built by understanding each other through listening to others, done as individual human beings, the result is a democracy that takes place in public spaces. Recent protests on issues of race and inequalities were staged in public spaces: our streets, parks, plazas, bordered by our buildings. Otherwise, the gap between us will widen. This kind of space is ultimately an urban space, a public space (streets, parks, facades where buildings interact with sidewalks/public spaces). ![]() That is a space where we can interact, exchange thoughts, and listen to one another to gain an understanding of different perspectives so tolerance can thrive. Those are where tolerance and democracy can flourish and, we, architects are responsible for creating such spaces. Architecturally speaking, those are areas where buildings are rubbed and carved out by public spaces. Our problems are not black and white but grey. We have learned our lesson and, when we are out of this pandemic, we should retain those good habits to make the world a better place in the future.īLACK LIVES MATTER as any other life. It also proves that working remotely, consume less, commute less, focus on meaningful human interaction can be done. We see this in the evidence of lower pollution numbers in our air and water. London is historic, Paris is grand, and Basel is organized.Īlthough COVID-19 devastates the world in so many ways, the bright side of it shows that human activities do impact the environment and that nature is capable of self-healing. Architecture is heavy and static and, therefore, shall not be expected to be able to be changed too much without significant intervention. We expect our buildings to be flexible and adaptable but fail to recognize that we, humans, are the most adaptable creature. But both employ Robert Venturi’s “ ugly and ordinary” design approach.Ĭreativity is to solve design problems, not to creatively force the realization of a heroic design ideal. If Disneyland is to Apple Macintosh in its integrated design, Las Vegas is to IBM PC in its open-source method. The challenge for each architect is to also serve the middle from the bottom 5% to the upper 1%. The upper 1% can buy with their wealth, the bottom 5% are taken care of by the government. ![]() Architecture is not for selected few but EVERYONE.
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