At the same time, we get told that as architects, we should aim to improve society.
My question is. How can anyone improve society (assuming we can) from an individualistic, formalistic, perspective?
The most beautiful moments I have ever experienced happened in the company of others (I remember painting a mural with a friend in Spain during the summer or waking up in bed, look trough the beautiful window, and hear from the back a whisper saying "let's cuddle"), a part from very special moments of intellectual pleasure, which are those moments when a situation proves some of the conjectures that are twisting in your head. (Heiner Goebbels installation of self playing instruments, which showed me that machines can provoke feelings on the viewers, but with the help of references to humans, such as speech, or culturally learnt musical compositions=emotions...still it made me wonder about the existence of emotions without humans, in a machine world, supposing theres an audience)
All my discourses, all my ever-changing mental architecture, is shaped trough loneliness. All processes of absoption-articulation are usually solitary (such as reading or writing), and processes of assimilation-fixation are usually social or require some sort of interaction (such as making, writing or talking).
Its true that this two moments can either happen in solitary or social conditions, but I like to think what Diamanda Galas said in an interview, that every human being has the need to communicate, and therefore of being social. For her, music is the language she's adopted to channel her messages.
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