All Structures Are Fascinating

[Yes I did publish this on April 1st. But I mean this seriously. (This would be pretty lame humor, IMO.)]


All structures are fascinating. Just because you don't know the story doesn't mean there isn't one. And if the story you know isn't fascinating, well then you're telling it wrong.

A building is fascinating to be designer who designed it, the craftspeople who built it, the person who developed it, and the people who live or work or trade things out of it. Maybe there's a story about those people. Maybe the structure is just a random pile of stuff that somehow people found a use for. Maybe they wish it were bigger or smaller or better looking or better matched their needs. Maybe they're pleased at how big it is or small it is or beautiful it is or how well it serves them. 

Maybe we don't know why or when it was built, or how it was used. Why is our knowing the why and how impossible?

Maybe the building is like no other in the area or worldwide; maybe it's taller or deeper or narrower or covered in a fascinating material, or has a way of standing up that's different.

Maybe it's exactly like it's neighbors, or maybe it's different from its neighbors; maybe it's older than them, or newer than them. Maybe it's older than it looks or younger than it looks. Maybe it imitates a famous building, or part of famous building. Maybe it was inspired by some idea: how people live or learn or heal or worship, or how they should die or remember or weaken or revel.

And so forth.  

Someone who should know better asserted that some structures were uninteresting and that we should focus on the interesting ones. I nearly exploded.

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