This begins within the walls, in a position where the destinations of this blog can be surveyed and thought about. Beyond the walls are the meanings of architecture, the life with which it intersects and the ideas that are much, much larger than the mere concepts of style and construction. Beyond the walls, buildings can be viewed in endless different ways, their often inert interior existence tranformed into politics, fashion and the most visible expressions of culture. Beyond the walls of the institution, out in the world, buildings fight for their own lives and offer their own account, shunning theory, history and conservation and riding powerful forces that can destroy them or save them. Beyond the walls are other walls, a collection of structures that make sense as much together as apart, more so; places that are made by accretions from the past and the processes of the present. Beyond the walls the building becomes object and subject, a starting point for argument and a muse for new production.
This will change and, hopefully, make more sense as time goes on, but tomorrow I will venture beyond the walls to see what direction I will head in first of all.
