1+3+9= changes the world, one child at a time

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Architecture has the ability to have psychological effects of the people that occupy and observe it.

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Architecture is people and people are architecture. One cannot exist without the other and they both have a direct effects and influences on one another. Architecture is our past, present and future. Architecture will be our future, which is if we as a people still have one.

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To me architecture is a direct representation of people put into the built environment. The architecture of the past and present ends up taking on the characteristics of the architect that designed it and the client that wanted it built.After the architecture is built it begins to take on a life of its own. The ideals in that life have a direct correlation to the ideals and wants of the parents that raised it. Then when that child is exposed to other people, they start to affect their lives. The affects are both positive and negative. But if you continue to experience that child time and time again, that experience starts to have a permanent effect on you. Which in turn you pass on to someone else, the same way the child gave it to you. This child is architecture and there is no way of running from it. The only thing that we can hope to do is try to refine it in way that makes society better instead of separating it. Just because some architecture doesn’t have a lot of money put into it shouldn’t mean that the people who occupy it should feel like that they’re worth the same relative amount.

1+3+9= The World Is My Mirror

Architecture has the ability to leave psychological effects on the people that occupy them and witness it.

Architecture has the ability to intimidate and it also has the ability to uplift people. Architecture is capable of healing the minds of people after a tragedy but it also has the power to create a new one. Architecture has the ability to show the world what makes being human beautiful and what makes humans monsters.

As a child I was thought to judge the world by how it appeared because that was how the world was going to judge me. Everything from how I dressed to what I ate was a direct reflection on how the world saw me as a person and what I was worth. I one part of that identity that I had no control over, was the place I called home. When I was 10 my parents divorced and we left our house in the suburbs in the Northern California to an apartment complex out side of a very wealthy neighborhood. And when the quality of my housing had lowered so did the expectations on how I turned out as a person. The extended family I had that had been so close to me and visited quiet often simply stopped coming around. My “friends” at the high school I attended treated me as an outsider after the first time they came over and saw where I called home. And I always wanted to ask, “Why does it matter? What does a building or a place have to do with me as a person?” That’s exactly what I’m going to try to figure out. Is there a way to improve the image a lower income housing?