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The internet has changed the nature of
architectural discourse. It has become a grassroots, multidisciplinary
education in collective reality. A plurality of voices are heard
online, yet curiously many of the traditional venues are silent about
the changes that are occurring.
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Architexturez is an inter-network with focus on South Asia, a
web-based infrastructure that stands amongst the network of institutions,
organisations and individuals.
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Architexturez is a researching system, and a web-based aggregator of
ideas and propositions concerning physical space and the related
disciplines ~ News, Inflexions, institutions and individuals,
Socio-Dynamic Tension, research and documents. South-Asian
specificities, co-ordination. Discourse and Publishing.
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Architexturez is a set of self energizing processes, mediated by
computing and networking technologies, describing the contexts
inhabited by the South Asian architect, and communicating within
them.
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Architexturez is keen on perceptions that are perceived to be
outside of the prevailing status quo in understanding architecture and
its institutions. It's task is in Mapping and Knowing the outside of
the conventional channels of professionalism and academia -- operating
upon their boundaries. Architexturez uses information mining
technologies as well as human networking to do so.
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Architexturez is primarily a not-for-profit venture. It relies on
international, multi-lingual participation and networking to build
perceptions complex and contradictory. Perceptions that are applicable
to a global audience, interrogating the traditional modes of
architectural education, theorising, and practice.
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