Towards Architecture_Unknown

Break out of the box of conformity and be not confined by the limitations of the present.

Our citadel of thought is constructed with previous knowledge and bounded by the tools by which we gained these thoughts. We are in search of a new energy that feeds not off of that “defined” but instead that which is “undefined,” in hope that this energy may evolve and create a type of synergy that follows these ideals.
__________ is a student based research group created to break the boundaries of the known and move forward in hopes of creating an architecture unknown, by pursuing the philosophy and theory of architecture as a process by understanding the sociological, physiological, and political implementations of form.
A society has the ability to shape a building, but can a building shape a society? A physical form can make one rethink sociological impacts and generate new relationships between a user and the space. This relationship has forever been fixed. The ability for this static relationship to become soluble liquids escalates when a new understanding of the physiological affects of spatial organization occurs.
Architecture has forever been an answer to a question of function, but in the place between static and chaos lies new questions. These questions generate new thoughts and new process’ that then in turn affect the psyche differently, producing new cyclical relationships. The past investigations of architecture as a process have remained linear in practice. Much of this dilemma starts in the institution of learning.
Each institute of learning functions as a machine, maintaining a mentality that defines the nature of the “shape.” A simple question needs to be posed at this moment, is the shape we are defining architecture or an architect? The intention of this question is to pose a challenge to a school and more importantly the institute as a process. If we as architects produce what we are taught then how does one break out of an explicit process?
This is where we rest, at the tip of a linear process waiting for new questions.