Scottisharchitecture.com is an online architecture centre, that is part of Architecture and Design Scotland's ACCESS to Architecture Programme. The website is designed to engage, inform and illuminate on all aspects of Scottish architecture and the built environment, across as wide an audience range as possible - from students and young people taking part in related workshops to professionals looking for lively and up-to-date news and debate.
Scottisharchitecture.com offers an important portal to information relating to projects delivered by the ACCESS to Architecture programme. The website also provides:
- comprehensive and constantly updated news;
- diary details of forthcoming events around Scotland;
- regularly updated features on new buildings and places;
- an education resource aimed at learners across all ages;
- articles, interviews and blogs reflecting the latest thoughts and developments happening across Scotland and beyond.
Scottisharchitecture.com considers the virtual visitor every bit as important as our real exhibition visitors and event participants.
If you wish to contact scottisharchitecture.com please email ScotArch@ads.org.uk
Website design by Graphical House
Remembering Architecture
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you look at this image? Perhaps the austerity of the space and single longing source of light will make you think of a prison cell, for others it may feel monastic. Assuming you have no experience of a prison cell what causes this association and consequently your reaction to the space?
This process of recognition is called apperception. It is the way your mind references each new experience against your memory of the past, it is an instant and subconscious process. Personal experiences are not the only thing which gives us spatial memories. We live in a culture which celebrates the authenticity and objectivity of the photograph, yet the impact images are having our memory is constantly ignored. These images mix with our real memories to the point that it’s barely possible to distinguish between the two.
The way in which we see the world and experience it is not entirely in our hands, the constant flow of images and media are creating a whole new reality with which to respond. We are living in a world of reference more than ever before, where every space is experienced against our rich selection of memories.
For architects reference and memory has the strongest impact on how buildings are experienced, this can be embraced or rejected but in some way should always be responded to.
Perhaps in moving away from abstract diagrams and esoteric theories we can start to draw on our own memories and observations to create architecture which connects as directly as possible with the occupant and be sincerely rooted in its context.
Photographs of models rebuilt from memories.
Credited to Jamie Ross
Comments should be relevant to subject matter and related discussions. We aim to include as many comments as is practicable, but we reserve the right not publish any comments that we regard as abusive or inappropriate to this forum. By posting your comment you agree to grant Architecture + Design Scotland permission to use the material, without charge, for any purposes it sees fit. You confirm that your comments are your own original work, are not defamatory of any person, do not infringe the copyright or other intellectual property rights of any third parties, and do not breach Scots law.
Comments
+ Add a comment