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DESIGN MATTERS?
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Commodity,Firmness & Delight-Vitruvius (30 bc)
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What is good design?Design is a process and a product.
Design Thinking1. Listen & Research – Define the
Problem / Opportunity2. Create and Consider Many
Options3. Refine Selected Option4. Repeat Steps 1- 3 (Optional)5. Execute the Selected Approach
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“One used to arrive in New York like a prince; now one scurries in like a rat.”
-Vincent Scully
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What is good design?Good Design is:
Resilient,Accessible,
Promotes Well-Being,Sustainable &
Creates a Healthy Environment.Good Design Makes Excellent Places.
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Spirit of Place or Genius Loci – A Roman ConceptEvery place has its genius, its guardian spirit which
determines its character or essence.
Authentic Place-Making vs. Generic Planning
American Institute of ArchitectsSlides provided courtesy of Architecture 2030
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WHAT PART DO THEY PLAY?
Architects,Engineers,
Landscape Architects & Planners
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There is no doubt whatever about the influence of architecture and structure upon human character and action. We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.
- Winston Churchill
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Architectural historian Vincent Scully has said that architecture is a conversation between the generations, carried out across time, and while you could say that this is true of all forms of art and culture, in architecture the conversation is most conspicuous, the most obvious, the most impossible to tune out. We may not all participate in the conversation, but we all have to listen to it. For that reason alone, architecture matters: because it is all around us, and what is all around us has to have an effect on us. That effect may be subtle and barely noticeable, or it may shake us to the core, but it will never fail to be there.
- Excerpt from Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger
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