Wildetecture in its raw form is what punk rock was to music. A complete knee jerk reaction to established local design trends. Its my opinion that south african designers are far to guilty of bowing and fawning down to the golden calf of overseas design trends, much more than our local ideas. In the past our cape town held design showcases seem to be the rest of the world telling and instructing us what we should design and how they have designed it already - Really a big brother schooling the little brother to see the direction he must go. Far, far to few south african designers going - this is what we design here and this is how we design it in SA.
Wildetecture encompasses age old Africa style design ideas. The wildetects are experimenting with and giving them a contemporary edge. Raw Africa energy - Africa fauvistic architecture - wild Africa design style -
Wildetecture - embraces
1) Earth branded architecture ,
2) Trompe loeil in architecture ,
3) Deception of vista.
4) Disintegration of perspective.
5) Perceived kinetic architecture.
6) Human driven architectural concepts.
7) Architectural musical interludes
8) Architectural shadow projections.
To mention just a few of the wildetecture design ideals.
Africa architecture is ubuntu, community driven and its big ideals and ideas coupled with bold unapologetic design. Africa design is its own signature from the Hausa designs, to the Sphinx and the Dogon - Its Ethiopian monasteries hewn out of a single rock. Or the bold colour dynamics of the Ndebele. It is my mind that Africa architecture has never really properly been embraced by the western world (look at the tree of architecture in Banister Fletcher - Egypt and then nadda) - The western art world that has for centuries crashed and ripped ideas from and into the real dynamics of this individualistic continent. Really trying, if you will indulge me - To tame Africa and render it passive. - Africa cannot be tamed - its a wild place with very dynamic wild creative ideas.
The wildetects have sent out p-mav's into the ocean with cryptic clues and treasure maps on the internet. With bottles of jack awaiting the would be finder of the treasure. I really enjoy dabbling in writing the short story with a twist and a poem or 2. I use the word dabble because it signifies a passion for or a childlike approach to a craft. Critics wait to pounce on any morsel of end design artistic product. To rip it to pieces and render the artist mauled to death.
Its possibly best to stay quietly in the back ground of the design community - As once you step over the spotlight threshold its highly possible that the thundering herds could enjoy scalding ones face completely off - Especially if one dares to imagine anything radically left of center and completely different to the established norm.
