This is the Friendly Architecture project website, a project in progress —¬

I have written this guidelining poem:

If a building is a day
and a day is a name
then a name is say
a building again.

The I as a sentient
being, in time and
material-location, it’s not
its skin and bones

but a memory of A
future plan B
or C or whateva
utopia it might be.

Friendly Architecture is a research and experiment art-design project. It examines the impact of colossal modernist architecture on our sense of being and the way we relate to each other while facing, passing by, or entering these cubical spaces.

What does the rhythm and repetition of squares in a certain format do with our behavior and the way we react to our surrounding as well as the impression imprinted in our memory of that certain place. How far is it connected to the original intention of the architect and the city planner behind these architectural locations.

It focuses on architecture which has been initiated as propagating or educating certain societal values and mostly on Socialist architecture. A process of work while collecting an archive of sources and eventually using a digital tool to navigate through a created multiplicity. A planned stretch of historical line goes from the settlements inspired by the proto-socialists in England and France and ends at phenomena of unintentional collapse and intentional domicide taking place these days.

While mentioning and documenting these architectural locations, the project also follows the transition occurring over time. The change taking place in what has been erected as a manifestation of a grand social or commercial idea into a seemingly forgotten, a taken for granted daily object. The goal here is not only depicting a story of a failure, which reveals a story about human relation, but also – the emergence of hidden stories and facts behind that certain dullness and faded visibility.