Wednesday 28 October 2009

TUTORIAL NOTES

Dip Studio 3, here are my notes on the forthcoming assessment criteria which we discussed yesterday.

CLARITY OF IDEAS (Basis & Resultant)

Taking your design intention to fruition with clear and convincing design outcomes
  • Self consistency
  • effectively and clearly communicated
  • you have a right to your own opinion but do back it up logically
APPROPRIATENESS OF DESIGN TO (CORRELATE) FUNCTION & FORM (Rank 2)

"Form follows function follows form" (ian ng)
  • usable by users -- "practical"
  • buildable by builders -- "simple"
RICHNESS & ARTICULATION OF DESIGN (Rank 4)
  • Phenomenology
  • Poetics
  • Sequencing of spaces
  • Variety of spatial typologies
  • Meaning (Why?)
RESPONSE & SUITABILITY TO URBAN CONTEXT (Rank 1)
  • Site Response
  • Neighborhood Response
  • City Response
  • National Response
  • World Response
TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF DESIGN (Rank 3)
  • Structure and Construction (architectonics)
  • Environmental Control (temperature, relative humidity, lighting, etc.)
  • Fire Safety (crowds, means of escape, etc.)

Friday 23 October 2009

DESIGN PREOCCUPATIONS - THE DISSERTATION

It's been madness this sem! Too much upheaval...barely time to breath.
The D is at word count 50,960. But that's draft.
pant~~

Maybe another 10,000 more..

ARCHITECTURE IS BASED ON FAILURE


.... yeah, someone once said that.

this post that came in the mail was just too good to pass by. For couples, actually, but you gotta do a bit of extrapolating.

by Dennis and Barbara Rainey
October 23

The Fear of Failure

1 Peter 4:8
Love covers a multitude of sins.

In an address to a nation divided by the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln underscored the need to persevere in spite of failure. He said, "I am not concerned that you have failed. I am concerned that you arise." The following excerpt, which appeared in an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, also emphasizes this point:

You've failed many times although you may not remember. You fell the first time you tried to walk, didn't you? You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Did you hit the ball the first time you swung the bat? Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also struck out a lot. R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on. English novelist John Cracey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books. Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs. Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

In a performance-oriented culture such as ours, failure belts us like a punch in the stomach. Repeated failure often results in a knockout blow, and many people give up altogether. As Comedian W. C. Fields once quipped, "If at first you don't succeed, then quit. There's no use in being a fool about it."

The problem is that a life with little failure is a life of little risk. This type of life may appear to offer safety and security, but it actually leads to guilt, boredom, further apathy and even lower feelings of self-esteem. God designed and commissioned us to be productive-many times that demands faith and risk.

Does your mate have the freedom to fail? Is he or she assured of your love-no matter what mistakes he or she makes? By slowly forging in your mate the freedom to fail, you'll help him or her become more open to change, more willing to take risks and more confident in decision making.

Prayer:

That God will give you enough faith to move beyond your fears and trust Him even in the midst of failure.
Discuss: Evaluate your own fear of failure. Are you a risk taker? Are decisions difficult? How would you evaluate your mate? What can you do to encourage him or her to move past fears?