parallax

key notes from a friend of mine, who was fortunate enough to attend the parallax conference down in melbourne:

1. At the core of Architecture is understanding and rethinking our world (Aaron Betsky)
2. Be an emergentist, not an architect (Pia Ednie-Brown & Veronika Valk)
3. Psychoanalysis: What we most desire is what we least want to be our reality (Slavoj Zizek)
4. Blogs are an immediate self-published energy that can challenge authority by giving value through exposure to the expreience and opinion of any person whom experiences architecture (Geoff Manaugh)
5. Architecture is not building (Howard Tanner)
6. The more you try to connect - the more you separate (Aaron Betsky)
7. Have some of the most famous buildings of all time been famous because the architecture is easily portrayed in a flat picture image? Does the photegeniacy of spaces dictate their circulation, publicity and fame prospects? What other avenues are there to explore and spread architecture?
8. The Boarder will become how architecture reflects politics. Previously this has been done through the section. (Alejandro Zaera-Polo)
9. Do not be afraid to take your proposals to the world... eg. Veronika Valk approaching her city council with proposals to revitalise her city in Estonia.
10. Who takes ownership over the building... the architect or the carpenter? (Bijoy Jain)