Architects Under Big 3 #59 Conchita Blanco

Architects Under Big 3 #59 Conchita Blanco
"Meaningful Architecture : Architecture That Matters"
 

What I have investigated for my thesis project is the art of sanitizing and purifying a historical sin. My project titled as “The tomb of the Stolen Memory” it is directed for the stolen memory of the Australian Aboriginal Indigenous – that is the long and violent British colonization of the Australian land where their land were forcibly dispossessed by the European settlers that lasted from the 1780’s to the 1920’s.

My projects seeks for the opportunity to symbolize an apologetic gesture to the Australian indigenous and their stolen memory from the land, and through the incorporation of water as a powerful weapon to the idea of purification the historical sin.

Press Release : Architects Under Big 3 #59 Conchita Blanco

A Meaningful Architecture

Conchita Blanco known as Conchita believe that we do not only hold the role to have power in shaping our environment physically, but also socially. Physically – we build the very shelter that acts as the functional ground for its users, thus re shaping the physicality of a certain environment. Socially – through architecture we determine lifestyle, culture, social values and even more history.

In saying that as architects we are curators of experiences through the spaces we design and through that, there needs to be a deep meaningful consideration through every design of an opening, void, wall etc that does not solely relay over aesthetics purpose, but injecting a meaningful purpose – a poetic one. After all, aesthetics is merely subjective.

Conchita’s intention here is to prove how as architects, through our designs have the ability to communicate, to evoke ; a certain mood, a particular experience or a memory. Henceforth, to think not only as an architect, but as an artist and challenging or critiquing the common social norms and notions. In doing so, the built environment does not only exist for its practicality but there it lies with a certain meaningful presence to the environment and society.