Charisma of Architecture
Our sphere faced a
massive Pandemic,
That created a
great epic,
Many people died,
And a lot more
survived,
Lockdown was the only
key,
To stop this
hierarchy.
Appreciate all
architects, who built our homes that are safest.
Staying at home
was considered useless, but corona has made it the best.
While
watching a movie named ‘San Andreas’. I remember a scene and can connect it with
the current pandemic situation, where the female character at the end asks,
Dwayne Johnson, after the disaster struck earth, “Now what?”, and the answer he
gave took me over, he said “Now we make”.
Architecture mirrors
the people and time; every structure built by man, has a cultural signature on
it. Greek civilizations pivoted on aesthetic and mathematical harmonies, as portrayed
in their architecture, such as the Parthenon. Renaissance Italy built ornate
public structures and palaces mirroring the region’s prosperity. In modern
architecture advancements in the technology improves the productivity and
creative calibers of architects.
Architecture
is the mirror of our cultural spirit. As architect I was always mesmerized by
watching people experience design in the world around them and design also functions
like a sound track. I also would like to mention that none of us anywhere in
the world are immune from bad designs. So I became an architect as I believed,
it was about devising spaces for people to live their best worlds.
Here I
connect the dialogue, “now we make”, as architecture impacts the greatest needs
of the world as well as the simplest needs like a play area of an infant.
Architecture is not only aesthetics, but the social impact or contributions to
society, it has a unique ability to dignify, it can make people feel valued,
respected, honored and seen. Visualize spaces that you reside or occupy how
they make you feel? Do they make you feel unhappy, unhealthy or uninspiring?
These places may be where you work, live or heal. So, thoughtful architecture
points that how these places can be better designed with you in mind. Sometimes
we are conditioned to feel like we don’t have much efficiency over spaces and
places that we live, work or play. This can be elucidated by thoughtful designs
that make people feel respected and seen. Architecture is to design with
dignity. As law is to jurisdiction, well-being is to medication, similarly
dignity is to design. We can say that buildings, as space of tales, stories of
families, folks public residing there and working in those structures.
Architecture is creating built forms that breeds a string of narratives and
relations. The stories of the people sketch the architecture of a building and
the architectures sketches those stories in turn. Architecture is how we can
assemble things in factual and functional way. So once the structural fabric is
woven, and you see the design it cannot be unseen. Whenever you come across a
beautifully sculptured edifice that makes an impression in your mind, will make
you feel to become an architect. This renders the responsibility, inspiration
and motivation to be an architect.
Once an architect said, “Practically
every plan you draft will look something like what you build, but don’t count
on it.” An architect must have practical approach, interpersonal skills,
organizational skills and most important patience. Talking of patience, as an
architect I could never keep calm and would always thought things to be
impossible until they were done! Yes, definitely the most dignified and
glamorous profession and only comes with hard work and dedication. ‘We shape
our buildings, thereafter they shape us.’ As said by Winston Churchill.
At the end I would like
to say;
Architecture enhanced and embellished, that time
has shaped,
Also with time, human response to this
Architecture also heaped.
All novel ideas are replicated with
self-expression,
Smart architecture is made with outright
assurance.
Take pride in being an architect
Shape the spaces as buildings with people’s
dialect
As architecture is highly elated profession,
Where designs define dignity and self-expression.
Ar. Manita Saxena
Principal, School of Architecture,
05,Aug 2021
