The Song of Ilium

A Classical education is a bit of a misnomer. While it suggests you tow the line and let generations follow in your footsteps, the articulation of such a paradigm shy’s away from the truth of this familial linearity. Being in touch with architecture has concocted yet more confusion, as while the erstwhile precedent of education is to break new ground there is a philosophy that there still remain some unanswered questions to the rubric that established the governance of education to begin with. Engaging this dilemma, architecture serves as a narrative instrument in the tale of its military toil that by example can see that our contemporary predicament is at odds with the essential classical storyline.

This is not to say we must enhance classical architecture, but the roots of its narrative have a valid sense of reasoning to serve as a contemporary palimpsest in assuaging our cultural abilities in addressing the future. To actually accept that our military histories are architectural texts that can serve to be interpreted to persuade peace in our time but with the knowledge that these sorts of enterprises are made by firmly making an architecture as its foreground. The sacking of Troy and the Parthenon stand by example. Architecture is not speculation but rather an attempt to stall history and this is not about style but an ability to breach time and space.

In retrospect it can be judged that the very fabric of education is flawed by its need to discover the future when the counterpoint is to consider the classical realm as the only contemporary space able to navigate its words and forms through the subculture of fashion and design. The need to know is an ability that is double ended as to engage in learning removes you from your origin where the opposite direction is required to be sought. War is waged with architecture, whether temporary, imaginary or made of stone and the opponents are the politicians of space. This makes an architect to be both vulnerable and socially autonomous as his plan has always been eternal, its just all about the right time to advance the attack, that can placate other advanced wars intent on domination. There is no fame in being able to attribute yourself to destruction, it is the constructive development of the psyche that prepares you for your next encounter.

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