Here’s the Saunterer’s review of Matthew Frederick’s 4,000-word book, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School: The 101 things are 101 good design principles. That averages out to about 40 words per principle. Many of them hold for any kind of artistic design, such as the design of recreational campgrounds. Here is one:
Good design solutions are not merely physically interesting but are driven by underlying ideas. An idea is a specific mental structure by which we organize, understand, and give meaning to external experiences and information. Without underlying ideas informing their buildings, architects are merely space planners. Space planning with decoration applied to “dress it up” is not architecture; architecture resides in the DNA of a building, in an embedded sensibility that infuses its whole. (Quoted from page 14 of 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, The MIT Press. 2007.)
For Matthew Frederick’s blog, click here.
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