throughout the technological advances of humanity, architecture has been the means with which we can consider previous generations -- understand their priorities, trials, and ethics. places with past look to their buildings to tell their stories and understand their own identities. as we confront the challenges of current architectures, there is no longer a desire or ability to create new constructions in the way we have always understood them. when the future reminisces, what will exist in order to understand today? is there anything worth remembering?
the essence of place has been buried within the river soils for millennia, the histories of time. yet, as the present travels down the same course and diminishes into open waters, it can no longer be recorded in layers of earth. the seismograph is a register for changes and developments in energies, priorities that the traditional built environment is no longer capable of enduring. an architecture that records the conditions and transfers their evaluations into chronicles of present -- eventually becoming a measured record within the stratum.
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