Please disturb! : exploring the virtues of dysfunctional architecture

When did architecture lose its courage? How have

we allowed our buildings to precipitate dreary and

sterile experiences? Conventional architecture at

its best yields indifference when it very well could

be our best tool to advocate the opposite. The rules

by which architecture plays are rigid, conservative,

unimaginative and far too reasonable. Could it be

time we make mischievous architecture, and might

this architecture be uncooperative?

So, forget efficiency and comfort. Consider instead

the possibility of dysfunctional and impractical

architecture and how it might offer a more enriching

experience next to its obvious counterpart. Imagine

the possibilities of an architecture whose agenda is

not to compensate for the complexities of life, but to

exploit and provoke them through the twisting and

flipping of convention.

Might we suggest an architecture aimed at disturbing

daily life rather than accommodating it? By

deliberately offering the unfamiliarity of discomfort,

might disturbance make for an appropriate resistance

against conventional architecture? Might disturbed

architecture make for a valid architecture?