So apparently, street photography has been a thing for me for quite some time now. It somehow makes you look into the built environment and how people interact in it a bit differently. From what I've observed however, being an architect, i find it somehow puzzling that the actuality of designing a space while organizing (if not dictating) programmed activities in it is from what i see different from the finished product. In public spaces for example, naturally, people move in all directions. A sign is just another element in the landscape until we need them. A design could be dynamic and all until you put people on it. It moves things on a different level.

The more I look at it, the aesthetic of the city seems like a bunch of clattered function made in anticipation of our present, and maybe future needs. Public spaces are like inorganic systems that grows based on non-projected functions struggling in organization. Seemingly, the object of design which is organization is in most of the time just an illusion. 

Despite the confusion of the city, people have learned to embrace it, like how we breath air automatically.We somewhat evolved to adapt to this confusion; how going to work everyday, with cramped public transportation systems, crowded commercial areas, our compact apartments etc. make up our daily lives, and yet we always have the ideals of organizing things based on what are our perceived arrangement of 

how we wanted things to be.

Somehow, it leads me into thinking that at some point, maybe instead of resisting uncertainty with the effort of trying to organize things in our physical environment, is that we try to learn to embrace it, and that chances are, the very spaces we have right now (cramped, crowded, compact) are what really provides us the best context for living.