Context And Memory Are Complex Propositions

On many recent occasions – at conferences, panel discussions, private conversations at work as well as discussing student-works at the academy, the complex nature of what architectural language should be seems to be coming into focus constantly.

- Kaiwan Mehta

Language as that which expresses the relationship between form and meaning and allows architectural imaginations to respond to time and locations, conditions of existence and states of economy is totally diversified today, and unable to conform to any particular imagination or style. Language appears arbitrary and at best distributed across a set of forms and ideas. Whether one wishes to discard the arbitrary and distributed nature as that of something that is lost and not thought through or whether one should explore the nature of a distributed language is the key question; the latter surely holds promise.