- Space Planning is the organizing or arranging of spaces to accommodate functional needs. Architecture involves imbuing these spaces with experience.
- Engineering concerns the physical. Architects concern the human interface with the physical.
- Architects knows something about everything. An engineer knows everything about one thing. Architecture is multidisciplinary.
- Reality may be engaged subjectively (as in experienced directly, as encouraged by Art) or objectively (as in from a detached point of view, as encouraged by Science)
- Art and Science complement each other. Art concerns itself with how things connect. Science concerns itself with the things themselves.
- True architectural style does not come from a conscious effort to create a particular look. It results obliquely — out of a holistic process.
- All design endeavors express the zeitgeist.
- Ancient era - the tendency to accept myth-based truths.
- Classical Era - valuing of order, rationality, and democracy.
- Medieval Era - dominance of the truths of organized religion.
- Renaissance - holism between science and art.
- Modern - favoring truth and scientific approaches.
- Postmodern - truth is relative and impossible to know.
- Two points on architecture.
- Architecture is an exercise in truth - a building is an expression of its functions and make.
- Architecture is an exercise in narrative - it is about telling stories through constructs.
- Architects are late bloomers. It requires extensive understanding of different fields that only comes with age and experience.
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