The Anatomy of Materiality: Just another Brick in the wall?

Architectural relationships and the agency of us as architects and our work could be seen as layers, similar to that of human bodies - a complex assemblage of beings (micro organisms), the built (skeleton), the materiality (skin), the environment (blood) and the various political and social forces as foreign agents that infiltrate the blood and manipulate, resist and sometimes change the way the body functions.

In current times, we have these X-rays and ECGs of the bodies - practices that often isolate and focus only on certain entities and their relationship to the body - however, what we are missing is the larger understanding of the body. Or in other ways, the layering of these various X-rays and ECGs, to develop a deeper understanding of the social.

[Just Another Brick In The Wall] is the first chapter in the series of studies aimed at exploring the relationships between the bodies constructing the architecture, influencing it, inhabiting it and interacting with it by examining them through the five lenses as mentioned above by looking at the anatomy of things.

Focused on understanding the many definitions and subsequent translations of brick as a material when placed in different social contexts, [Just Another Brick In The Wall] aims at deciphering and dissecting visual and experiential relationships by looking at the use of the material in three drastically different sociopolitical settings - each having a strong connection to the material to identify the factors and actors facilitating and catalyzing this shift in its absolute definition.

The study draws parallels between what the architect envisioned the brick to be, what it wanted to be, what ended up being and how this synergy(or tension) led to certain spatial experiences.

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