HOMOGENISED ARCHITECTURE IN THE DREAMING FACTORY

St. Peter´s Square. Source: Wikipedia.

By H.G. von Österreich

The human drama is quite dramatic. Human primates are weird, surprising, predictable, programmable and therefore controllable. Prone to changes too. Thus, there are “certain world forces operating in many lands and making for the overthrow of the existing social order and the disintegration of patriotism, religion, and morality” (Field, 1936: 2). And there are many ways to accomplish this. It can be done through architecture, for instance.

Since ancient times, buildings have been used to transmit power, opulence and domain.

Buildings, besides allowing many other functions, are also symbols. And symbols can be powerful tools to influence people´s minds.

As a matter of fact, symbolic buildings have been used to project the power behind kingdoms and empires for centuries.

In the olden days, architecture was commonly voluptuous, with many curves, imitating the female human body in many ways. Buildings and monuments incorporated the feminine mystique (Fig. 1). 

 

Figure 1. Ruins of an old Arabian-Byzantine style church, in Humanejos, between Parla and Torrejoncillo de la Calzada (Madrid, Spain). Source: Pérez de Villa-Amil (1850).

Today, buildings, monuments and skyscrapers tend to be straight and squared monsters, not only for economic reasons, but also because there is a force pushing constructions along a line to resemble miniature, mushroom-like or giant phalluses. Modernist architecture usually bears the masculine stamping (Fig. 2), if not hermaphroditic.

 

Figure 2. A group of skyscrapers in Dubai. Source: Wikipedia (2021).

 

And most modern schools of architecture throughout the world are following this line of thinking when it comes to designing buildings and the like. It is a fad. One that also makes the most money out of space and human efforts. At least that is what comes out from its distillation at first sight.

As a result, wherever we go we find the planet carpeted with cities with similar modernist buildings. Basically, all cities tend to look alike. It is as if all architecture has been cranked up by the same machine. It has been homogenised to the point that in some cases it can give rise to sickness and insanity (e.g., the sick building syndrome). 

The homogenisation of this cranked-up type of architecture can be seen from the Arctic to the Mediterranean (Fig. 3): From Norway (Fig. 4) to Spain (Fig. 5), for example.

 

Figure 3. Locations of Svalbard (Norway) and Ibdes (Spain). Modified from Google Earth.

 

 

Figure 4. Entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norway). Source: Motherboard (2016).

 

Figure 5. Entrance of the Gruta de las Maravillas in Ibdes (Calatayud, province of Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain). Credit: BT.

In a nutshell, the modern world has been squared. As a result, in a lot of aspects, this has also led to a standardisation (squaring) of most human minds. Sort of like people wearing mental blue jeans globally.

And whatever forces get to control people´s minds can also control the world.

Thus, we are right now in the midst of this global storm. A social tsunami tailored by the global elite, trying to swallow and control all human souls in order to implant a “New World Order” (the same “Old World Order”, but modified and modernised), under a single government.

Nowadays it seems to me that we are almost at the point where everybody´s dreams are owned by the dreams dreamed by those who control the dreaming factory.

And architecture can be used as a powerful and smooth way to penetrate anyone´s consciousness and subconsciousness.

So beware of any subliminal messages around your own timeline and space.

Stay alert of any dream that comes out of their dreaming factory.

Farewell! 

References

Field A.N. (1936). All These Things. A.N. Field, Nelson, New Zealand. Volume I. 75 pp.

Motherboard (2016). Exploring the Arctic's Global Seed Vault. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B95Pem9XW7k

Pérez de Villa-Amil Don Genaro (1850). España Artística y Monumental. Vistas y descripción de los sitios y monumentos más notables de España. Alberto Hauser, Paris, Francia. Tomo 3. 104 pp.

Wikipedia (2021). Rascacielos. Fundación Wikimedia, Inc., San Francisco, CA. USA. URL: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascacielos