The purpose of this site is to serve as an archive documenting our journey as two young architects . Recorded in a memoiristic/ journalistic format we are trying to revisit a medium famously explored by Lebbeus Woods. Today's informal architectural discourse is dominated by visual atlases and journals, often on platforms like Instagram and Pinterest. As intriguing as they are, the platforms themselves are image sharing platforms; limiting the possibility to explore architectural ideas beyond the visual scope. On the other hand, purely academic writing lacks the approachableness, and intimacy that is so foundational to the work of a maker. A blog-like website allows for us to exist somewhere in between. 

 

We believe in Embodied Architecture. Our ability to explore, think about and write about our daily surroundings is part of this belief. As the British Architects Clancy Moore explains in their lecture, Architecture is created always in relation to. 

 

To the context. 

To the society. 

To the memories of the place we as architects grew up with. 

 

So maybe the best way for the architect to really begin to record and understand and analyze their own body of work and their surrounding environment is through a memoiristic medium. 

 

"Why would that be useful for an architect? That's the job of a writer. An architect should spend their time dealing with space through plans, sections, and diagrams. It's how they learn to understand their craft."

 

We need to do more than that. If we are to fully capture the identity of a place, and of ourselves, we need the objectivities of the mappings as well as the subjectivities of a memoir. 

 

A memoir captures a moment in space, time as well as the author's mind. It describes the story of the place as a snippet. It is territorial, urban, local, and human in scale all at once.If we've done our job, this record will be subjective. It will have a bias, and that bias acknowledges the first step in opening the doors of introspection for truly understanding the Embodied nature of our work.

 

We believe in the Process. and this format allows us to track our progress as we begin to navigate the Architectural profession. Meant as a tool for retrospection, it will archive ideas which grow and evolve over time with the hope that they may eventually lead to a situated project.

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- T & C