Author Archives: JoelBrady

Is there truth in architecture (pt.2 / conversion)?

As I stated in pt. 1, space is such a transmutable force of actual representation that words fail to iradicate the transgressions that take place on its soil, disallowing individual words the ability to create. The political imagination of the individual — global, regional, local policy, notions of human rights, perceptions of civil society — [...]

Is there truth in architecture (pt 1)?

Right now I’m writing basically about what I eventually want to study further in graduate school: violence, memory, and conversion in the context of Church space in Rwanda. The basic premise is that the intended use of space was to become a space of unity and redemption; that the history of ethnic (read political) identities [...]