Defining Mess // d i s o r d i n e

For these Lifeless Homes, the soul of the domestic participant is cut, their freewill to define their home with mess is lost. The clinical architects have already decided that lifeless life for them.

These examples evidence the decline of the art and craft of building. The embellishment of ‘ad-hoc’ incomplete homes is lost.

What is being photographed here? A lack of human occupation.

Don’t you dare drop a speck of wine on this constantly polished table.

“When you encounter a building that is hard to photograph you are on to something that is slipping beyond the usual”.

- Elizabeth Hatz, On the Architecture of Hugh Strange: Footnotes, Backgrounds and Sheds -

A Home should not be the foreground of the photograph. The architecture is essentially background and peripheral. We do not look at it, but through and around it, like something we inhabit.