understanding process

February 12th, 2010 [Comments Comments Off]

Understanding Process. This is part 2 of clarifying architects and architecture, see part 1: understanding values

This is a clip of the Simpson’s episode featuring “the design process”, where Frank Gehry receives a letter from Marge urging him to design a Cultural Center for Springfield. Gehry crumples the letter, disgusted, and throws it to the ground, then sees the resulting form and has an architectural epiphany. The resultant design is the balled-paper-as-building. Although some architects do use this method, and it is accepted by a few clients, this process is usually not the norm.

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understanding values

February 3rd, 2010 [Comments Comments Off]

architects In thinking about the last post, I wonder if people who have these unreasonable thoughts are just unaware of who architects are, what the architectural process is, and how architects get things built? Personally I have to say that, I for one, used to be unclear as to what architects do.

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