formLESS

What is architecture? Formless.

We are a society of labelers. Of styles. Things which fit into nice, neat categories. Everything has to be able to be described as part of some kind of movement, and then thrown into a big collection of everything stuck with that tag. No deviations from the norm. OR, if the deviations exist, they are all lumped together and labled deviations. Ironic. Their differences make them the same.

Classicalism. Modernism. Post-moderism. Deconstructivism. Blobitecture.

Too many definitions for the same thing: Architecture. Architecture is not a style. They are too many to mention. Architecture is not a form. The forms are as varied as imagination will allow. The characteristics of what defines a space is not what makes architecture. Decoration is not architecture. Material pallets are not architecture. Computer generated forms are not architecture. They are simply the means through which the idea is conveyed. Its akin to calling the brush or the paint which was used to make an image a "painting." It simply isn't. They are integral to the actual act of constructing or forming the painting. Without them there would be no painting. But that does not mean they are the painting. They have influence, but the end result is an entity independent from them.

If it creates space, it is architecture. The form is incidental. The style is incidental. Labels created by a society which grew up classifying its classmates into groups with various cool points. Fuel for a raging fire of discussion on personal opinions.

In the end, all that matters is the space. Its characteristics. The thoughts. The feelings. The creativity it sparks. Everything else is simply what makes that possible.