Concrete Geometries  —
spatial form & social relations

While critical practice suffers from ‘design deficits’ and digital practice remains locked within design processes according, the ‘concerned practice’ could be a possible mode of operation for an architecture concerned with the real. Thinking architecture through the notion of agency, Doucet argues for an ‘idiotic architecture’ and the emergence of unexpected events.

According to Benjamin, of the two possible ways to appropriate architecture, the appropriation through use and habit prevails over visual contemplation . . . while contemporary cognitive research increasingly seems to imply that although a large part of our interaction with the environment may be going on unconsciously, it will still affect our behaviour.

‘Geometries’ or built form could respond to and be informed by the socio-spatial realities of the everyday. This clearly extends from the immediate physical reality of objects or structures used in a project to include social processes which evolve through the use of spatial settings.