AUGUST UNMASK: IMPRESSIONS & EXPRESSIONS

Graphic by Student Body 2024-25

A significant aspect of architecture is the built environment. However, these spatial organizations and orientations become meaningless without the intangible narratives crafted by the designer. These narratives imbibe value into precise line drawings, which, while plausibly explicatory of our designs, are not absolute in their purpose. This opens up the arena for designers like us to employ different tools of expression. These varied mediums spark dialogues within the community, reinforcing the idea that architecture extends beyond the physical structures. It reconnects to user perceptions, emotions, and the intangible impressions that architecture leaves on individuals. 

These tools of expression serve as a catalyst to the emergence of ideologies and values which collectively define different eras of architecture. This allows architecture to branch out into different aspects which seemingly are distant to architecture but influence it spatially. As designers looking at architecture through the lens of these aspects helps us understand and revisit the rationality with which we built. The aspects can range right from materiality to intangible aspects such as writing that serve as expressions for users who perceive and interact with the space. 

This interaction is forged through-out the built at different scales, providing an added influence on the user perception. People of varied creative interests channel their very impression of the built fabric around them and convert these impressions into expressions of their understandings.

These elemental forms of expression culminate as tools for the designer to intercede and achieve architectural goals. Beyond that they also empower all users to express a newer meaning to the built. This allows spaces around us to ultimately bridge the users and designers and embrace opinions, ideas and conversations from a diverse set of fields.

Written by: Khushi Pednekar & Aditya Shanbagh