Architect as Inventor. Unlimited connections.

Hmmmm. Do you believe that everything can be eventually related back to architecture?
Maybe, to a certain extent?

How about the Matrix Trilogy? Who's behind this madness? An architect, the inventor and "ruler" of all things Matrix. *evil laugh*

Well, let's take a few steps back and chat about a way to see architecture beyond it's denotation.

Here's a scenario (based on true events):
A group of second year architecture girls and I went and saw the movie, Leap Year (yes, a chick flick).  We were determined to have a whole day away from any school conversation or responsibilities! After striking up a conversation over sushi about the book The Kite Runner, I noticed one of the girls fiddling with her Ipod Touch. Instantly, in a flashback, I was at work the day before reading an article about how Apple Apps have reached over 3 billion dowloads:

"Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months--this is like nothing we've ever seen before," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon."


iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries worldwide can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.


[www.redorbit.com/news/technology...]

Talk about innovations today! But how about the unlimited possibilities it gives us? I wonder if it can only go so far or maybe if it does, will it be pulled back? I don't know. What I do know is that after so much thought of exactly what architects do and how their work sits within any and all societies and culture, I have a more enthusiastic view.

I flashback to the dinner table at the restaurant and cannot help but picturing myself right where the book The Kite Runner took place, the Middle East. I don't know where to place myself physically or visually but I can almost assume that the once bubble of unlimited possibilities just busted.

Watching the movie Leap Year, a young women wants to control and plan every aspect of her life and finds herself taking a risk in finding love across the globe. I had phrases like "take a risk", "be a go-getter", "you only get what you work hard for", and "stay motivated" rotating around my head like a halo at the sushi restaurant. That has vanished in the uncertain life I could have in another culture and another area of the world. Not saying, only us Americans know and understand hard work and success, but I wonder does it diminsh because their aspirations are more about survival or do I need to be educated so I will not take for granted exactly the possibilities I have here.

Any one who knows me, knows I am obsessed with cooking and trying new types of food. That's why sushi is so attractive to me and my taste buds. It's so many new and exciting combinations in one roll. (Plus the dinner conversation is so nice when you can critique the entree and also talk about culture and languages...that might just be me, hehe).

In the same way, we feed off of new, exciting choices, unlimited possibilities, risk-taking, and a motivated and grounded society in America. That's how it goes. That's all we know. As architects and perspiring designers, we have technology follow our ideas. For example, Avatar took almost a decade to make because they were waiting for the technology to catch up to what they wanted to do accomplish in the end.

That speaks a lot about the goal of Make It Right, to me. Basicly, they are meeting (connecting) challenges and innovative possibilities and making the first steps in understanding where Architects can make a difference and the manifestation therein.

I just wonder like the architect in Matrix, is it to feed our own ambitions (whatever they may be) and do what we want or is it about the betterment of all of us and the people who make up our grand and endeavering society.