Becoming A/architecture

Architecture has the potential to operate as an alternate method to express, explore, and test the subject matter of other discourses. For example, when considering two seemingly separate discourses such as the philosophy of existentialism and architecture, one may see potential to combine the two discourses with the term, “existential architecture.” This title makes certain implications, the first being that one is primary over the other, which denies the symbiotic potential of the two disciplines. I propose, therefore, that we cease testing, creating, and thinking in terms of “existential architecture.” Instead, how can we begin to think of architecture as a philosophy in and of itself, combining the two discourses in such a way that the boundary between them is breached? Only under this condition can existentialism cease to be expressed, explored, and tested strictly in philosophical terms, but in architectural terms as well.