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PERSONAL STATEMENT

Architecture has the potential to operate as 
an alternate method to express, explore, and test 
subject matter of other discourses. With this approach 
to architecture, an idea can cease to be expressed,
explored, and tested strictly in textual or verbal form,
but in built form as well.

This approach to architecture begins with considering
the relationship between two seemingly separate discourses
such as philosophy and architecture.  Philosophy is the study 
of ideas, and architecture begins as an idea.  At first, one
may see potential to combine the two discourses with the
term "philosophical architecture" or "architectural philosophy".  These titles make certain implications, the first being that
one is primary over the other, which denies the symbiotic relationship between the two disciplines. I propose, therefore, that we cease thinking in terms of "philosophical architecture"
or "architectural philosophy". 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?   

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