Peter Ahrends.Diagrams are an essential part of our work, focusing on the enquiry, exploration and search for meanings that underlie each concept. These concepts and, eventually, the built forms are a reflection of this mode of expression: a searching endeavour applying equally to all types, sizes and locations of projects (shown here in our Bexhill competition-winning scheme). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ideas for house and city share many characteristics; not least the nature of their anatomy and organic structure. Neither the search for meaning nor the composition of elements concerns physical worlds alone. For we are digging for culture, history and the elusive, powerful non-substances of social structures: 'All our art is water drawn from the well of the people. Let us give it back to them in a cup of gold so that in drinking they may recognise themselves' (Garcia Lorca Gar·cí·a Lor·ca , Federico 1898-1936. Spanish poet and playwright. Considered Spain's leading modern poet for works such as Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter (1935) and Poet in New York ). Poets write. We architects draw, to build. Arts touch and mingle, ideas interweave. In various ways and by different modes of expression we're discussing humanity; life in here, out there: togetherness, separation. In searching for things to 'say', ways of seeing/doing, we draw. Initially, diagrams are a means of understanding, bringing together thoughts, feelings and intuition intuition, in philosophy, way of knowing directly; immediate apprehension. The Greeks understood intuition to be the grasp of universal principles by the intelligence (nous), as distinguished from the fleeting impressions of the senses. . But they are seldom conclusive Determinative; beyond dispute or question. That which is conclusive is manifest, clear, or obvious. It is a legal inference made so peremptorily that it cannot be overthrown or contradicted. . Pens are guided on paper to find the essence of what might be done. Almost magically, the action of drawing brings into being ideas that have been latent, internally. Sometimes, almost buried, ideas rise, find a place, help to articulate and give form to symbolic meaning, embody em·bod·y tr.v. em·bod·ied, em·bod·y·ing, em·bod·ies 1. To give a bodily form to; incarnate. 2. To represent in bodily or material form: values and offer glimpses of the building to be. Above all, diagrams condense con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. a complex variety of factors, offering moments of apparent clarity and simplicity. Strokes on the page take on meaning as signs, without words, touch our sensibilities sen·si·bil·i·ty n. pl. sen·si·bil·i·ties 1. The ability to feel or perceive. 2. a. Keen intellectual perception: the sensibility of a painter to color. b. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Often made as though in dialogue, ideas (ideograms) establish a 'fit' in relation to need; a response that speaks of a movement towards the future shared by the project group, working together. With latent energy, the graphic languages of diagrams offer understanding, and cross cultural boundaries. PETER AHRENDS, ABK ABK Abkuerzung (German: Abbreviation) ABK Anybody Killa (musician) ABK Ahli Bank of Kuwait ABK American Bank of Kosovo ABK Aphakic Bullous Keratopathy (ophthalmology) ARCHITECTS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Admired: Erich Mendelsohn, Bexhill Pavilion, 1935 Not really a diagram of Mendelsohn's Bexhill Pavilion but this conceptual sketch brings together the wholeness of his intention by the use of a single set of fluent fluent /flu·ent/ (floo´int) flowing effortlessly; said of speech. penstrokes carrying clear dynamic messages of the early Modern Movement. A bold seaside gesture for a small English south coast town. By John A. Glover-Kind |
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