This is perhaps the most fragmented of all the descriptions on here, simply because all my experiences of architecture have been divided into different parts. The past nine years have been broken into urban design, technology, masterplanning, with etc etc.
Good execution is as important, if not more important, than the original idea. This directly ties to my views on teamwork; architecture is about more than simply ideas and design. It is about the creation of a finished, coherent product. A design should always be coherent from its first statement to its smallest detail. And how a person experiences a space should always be of prime importance.
If we accept that the execution of architecture , the follow-up is that the process, finance, and are in many cases more important in the creation of good architecture than design. The mythical design.
Is it all about winning awards. Recognition is always a good thing. I do like people commending my work and recognising when I’ve done a good job. But surely everyone does.
Architects as a whole are poorly performing as an industry. According to the RIBA’s own figures, 26% of clients are either dissastisfied or very dissastified with architects’ performance. This rises higher among those who spend the most time among those who architects spend the most time with.
Architects as a profession need to listen, learn, and admit a wider demographic of people.
My career so far has focused on
Urban design
Construction
Technology
Residential design
Planning
Site analysis
Big data
Mind wandering all over the place.
I’d like to consider myself a decent enough designer, but architecture has turned out to be far more than out.
All the projects I’ve worked on have been collaborative. While I’m able to take sole credit for different parts of a design (such as in Bassett Road) . They have always been a collaboration between myself and others. This could be with a client, with others in the design team, or other consultants. I don’t believe design should be a hermit-like process.
I prefer to focus on spaces and how people experience those spaces. These can be both internal and external.
oo often the tools we use shape
I don’t even want to mention award winning projects. I’m not an award winning architect (though I have worked on award winning projects). I don’t even want t
What award winning projects.
Locking Parklands
American Museum gatehouse thing.