PANNA

I don't know! :-) But i know they do create. Look at a hammer. What 'intents' does it create when a child encounters it? or For a normal guy? and for a carpenter? Hammer is not designed for children, but still they are able to hold it and bash up things around them! For a normal guy, the form to an extent may communicate the function to hit a nail or a pull a nail and the intent is created. For a carpenter, its a routine of repeated use and may be of a deep association or a memory or an attachment or even hatred sometimes.....For a normal guy it may give some initial ideas, may trigger some use and later fizzles out since he has no need of it. Anyways...the point is, how do objects like tools create intents of use to different people? Intents are important to accomplish purposes. What intents are triggered to an early user of a cricketing site? What other purposes does he have? How does the nature of use set into routine?

At college, we were taught to admire the modern attempts to design. Modernism justified functional parameters and postmodern attempts looked only intellectual attempts. It took almost 10 years for me to come out of this disconnected view of architecture and build a faith in my own understanding of our own architecture. Our traditional houses had a visual language laid out for us. Its planning had basis in Vaastu but i want to stress more on the visual language of our homes during the times when our grand parents lived. I will briefly explain my grand fathers house in my village called Asundi. I am greeted by a simple elevation, white walls with one main door and 2 small windows (its a hot dry region of north Karnataka. The entrance has a "katte" where my uncle and aunt, now my father love to sit and talk in the pleasant evenings. The main door has a wooden frame (hochalu, and the entrance and hochalu is hand drawn with rangolis. The entrance usually has image or symbol of the