Just when I thought I am out of love

Well, it has really been a long time since i last posted.. in fact i haven posted anything!

I have began this blog hoping to critique on cars and design in particular, but i realised lately that another old love, Architecture, has come knocking on my door enthusiastically, arriving in a vehicle we call - thesis. When I began my Thesis, I began by lumping together my original love, cars, into architecture, for those who are not in the know, you may be forgiven to think that they are two different and separate entities, but you may be surprised to know that they are in fact intricately linked, only that you might have taken them for granted for too long, or maybe, you have been led to read them as two different things. Well, all architects (or for the matter, Urban designers too) will tell you, Cars (and other vehicles), are a major headache to the architectural plannings. Access points, drop-off points, site entry/exit etc will be enought to trouble you for a while, let alone that ultimate problem of Car parking and Fire engine eccess etc. Blah blah blah blah blah... Other than such pragmatics, historically, they (cars) intertwine as well. If not for cars (and also, to a lesser extend, other form of transportational machines), cities as we know them today will be very, very different. Primarily, if not for a man lovingly known as, Le Corbusier, all our skyscrapers, or so called 'Modern' architecture, would not have happened. Although its highly debatable as to whehter such cross influence is a good or a bad thing, we cant hide form the fact that the car and Architecture has clashed, with sparks flying.

I do not kow yet if it will be suicidal to lump both objects of love, car and architecture in my thesis (this combination has almost killed my dissertation, but thats in a pretty different take and direction, but...lets not talk about that...) and celebrating them together in one huge Party, but it sure looks like they are getting along pretty well. I hope they stay this way and chemistry between them continue to flow. I really hope so.

Well before I end this post.... one of the hidden agenda of this project, is to design an architectural equivalent of the cars i designed so far - a piece of architecture that I can rightfully call it mine, an architecture that will compliment, accomodate, operate and eventually, play with my cars.

Woooo... I am so in love.