Heidegger

Is it possible our personal interaction affects the building? Does our interaction as designers and clients affect the building?

Yes, our personal interactions affects all buildings as well as our interactions as designers with clients do too. One’s personal interactions with things are what shape the way that person thinks on a specific topic or feels in a specific place. Understanding what a person thinks or feels in a building will create a better building to inhabit or dwell in. More so in interacting with the client the designer has a better chance to create a building that will meet the needs of the “dweller” as to provide a more intimate or special place that the user will fell at home in.

Is it valuable to search for authenticity in designing/ building architecture?

It would be foolish for one not to look for some form of authenticity if design or architecture. The design and architecture of the past create a sort of knowledge base that is available to designers of the day, and to not tap into what was already studied and experimented upon would be, as stated before, foolish. One must not try and recreate the wheel over and over again, but take the wheel and enhance it. Re envisioning something, adapting that which is “authentic” into something that is applicable in today’s world. However, searching for a pure authentic design or architecture would be equally as foolish as with technology and knowledge come change in the way people think and interact within a space or environment.

Mortals dwell in that they save the earth.  Mortals dwell in that they receive the sky as sky, the sun and moon their journey, the stars their course, the seasons their blessings and inclemency.  They do not try to change what they were born into and it will continue when they (we) are gone.  Can we design and build with this sense of permanence?

No, designing with such permanence would create a world that would not move in the sense of moving forward in knowledge, prosperity, technology. This would create a stand still that would try and create a sort of vacuum in which nothing changes, nothing moves forward or backwards. The porblems of the time would remain and possible get worse, and not dealing with the every changing world would bring it to its knees, destroying what was created. In the other hand, ignorance is bliss.

-Jesse Alvizar