Atlas of Illusionary Tectonics

Architecture has been seducing positions of power for centuries, in order to realise dreams.  Creating Iconic buildings that ultimately suggest vision, a template for the future.  Today this has become tenuous through the overuse of 'iconic' projects that are presented through the cityscape, all of which are competing for attention, grabbing at our conscious and subconscious, trying to persuade, manipulate and re-educate.

Architecture is the formwork in which we spend our lives, it can shape perceptions and intellect.  Our cityscape has become branded and defaced through corporate capitalism, a three dimensional white noise, that bombards with 'one liners' that has diminishing effects on its audience.  In this society there is thrust for 'real' to come into being, the diluted overused iconic to evaporate back into its concentrated form.

Through this yearning for reality away from the iconic, that has fuelled profit, demolition is required, an implosion allowing for the phoenix principle.  The re-birth of the tectonics, through the creation of this exploitative guide, future templates for the realisations of visions can emerge out of the white noise that has engulfed the cityscape.

The iconic has become about the pursuit of status through ambiguity, creating bifocal visions between society and the icon [creator].  The icon becomes a strategy determined to achieve status through contradiction and paradoxes, aiming to achieve a mass following through exploiting our educated vision to induce confusion.