to the fellow African wildetects - i really might be sticking my neck out considerably - i might be
saying slanderous things to the architectural holy grail mind set - but c'mon -
the architectural dudes from last century didn't grow up in Africa - and they didn't open up their design senses to the possibilities of intense African wild design.
The
concept of "form follows function" and "less is more" is for me a
serious hoodwinking of today's architectural reality.
Aesthetics
is really fundamental to function and more texture is always a true heightening
of the architectural senses.
Who
really wants plates of food compartmentalized into veg and meat with nothing
touching? and small portions to boot. A great SA potjie kos is always an incredible
experience. Architecture
is not any different - the architect queen ladies and gentlemen is naked and her
body is terribly pimpled and out of condition. Lip stick and lace is needed and
a Minimalist
expensive artistic concrete - doesn’t really inspire a warm fuzzy feeling for
me.
I
love full on texture, warm colors and natural finishes - lots of it and as much
as possible - "more is more" and "function must be clever enough to follow form"
- that is the African wildetects ideal. Let’s not close down design with insipid minimalistic cold interiors - a hood winking of last century. Lets create intensely warm
body interiors, full of purple human color and bright heart pumping crimson red.
lets rather design to the limit than design to the nothing -
less is more - puh! i speet on such reasoning - yes mr egyptain king - lets make
your pyramid - 1 brick high and only one color - white!!!!!!!!!!!!
"the secret of this life - is not how little we can
do , to do well , but how much we can do, to be magnificent." -
QJD 2013
