Future: The New Architectural Identity Crisis
What would a building be without a link between form and function? A modernist would say form needs function like man needs air. The everyday inhabitant relies on form to lead them to a function. For instance a bank, the archaic built form of the loggia and oversized columns scream, to people as the architectural form of the gods relating back to Greek Temples causing a spasm in the cultural landscape to signify an importance to the building. This is all cause to rethink how architecture can influence the everyday inhabitant to inhibit pre-notions of what the form is speaking to them weather it be a theater, jail, learning institution or hospital etc without returning to the forms of the past. If there was a way to blend this idea into hybridizing the form to shroud function as an ambiguous space that could be perceived from different positions throughout the life cycle of the building, then the urban landscape could change in reference to the best possible use of any building at a particular time. Most of the time when architects set out to make a singular use of a building the occupiers usually set up their own system for how they want to use the building and the ideas of the architect soon gets blended into a mix-match of opposing ideas of pure practicality and aesthetic obscurity.
