2ND YEAR JURY
In general history is believed to
be more misused and abused in process of reconstructing. Philosopher speaks of
the truth in moral sense, poet in fictional sense, historiographer in context
of event and interpretation. However within the profession of architecture the reconstruction
of historical truth is often about nationalism, identity, strangely framed
within the acute form Vs wider form of parochialism. Unlike socio-political
thinkers like Hegel and Karl Marx came forward with a theory that historical
processes proceed according to ideological, material or class struggle.
The knowledge of history
interprets and illuminates the human activity through variety of manifestation.
The knowledge that is reflected the state of society and thus in institutions
that has grown from it. The transformation of an institution reflects the modesty,
priority and freedom of choice. The institution is a biology of society,
metaphorically elucidates the process of ideological stand in survival, choice
and breeding. The evolution of institution and its framework can be traced in
its political history, constitutional history, economic history, social
history. The social history is reflected in origin and development of
institutions progressing towards rationality. As social history is more
comprehensive in nature and G.M.Trevelyan correctly pointed out that social
history as “the daily life of inhabitants, economic relationships, attitude to
nature, conditions of various class, culture of each era and its value, changing form
of religious practices ,literature” which are intricately reflected in architecture of history of institutions.
The second year project attempt
to relocate the role of institutions in its trajectory of evolution. The evolution
and growth of institutions is slow and subtle in nature, obeying its own law, hence
influencing & shaping the social and political sphere. In short the institutions are an expression of
societal ideas for its existence and sustenance. The institutions reflects the descriptive
geography and its ideological stem reflects the narrative of historical
evolution, within which the notion of identity attempting to fill up the circumference
of our perception, limited geography of space and its relationship with
society. Hence identity is a trajectory of perception whose history is embedded
in phenomena and reference to time where architecture has limited scope to
arrest the phenomena and its reference to time as a tool to arrest identity.
The project brief has potential
to extend into a larger discourse and perhaps question the notion of identity,
breaking the monolith, recapturing the porosity of unyielding space.
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