Comments on: Design theory in architecture and landscape https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/design-theory-in-architecture-and-landscape/ Gardenvisit.com Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:25:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/design-theory-in-architecture-and-landscape/#comment-96 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:25:54 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=146#comment-96 7. Sorry, almost correct. It was a collaborative design with David Nelson. [http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architects/100/norman_foster/foster_article_032008?currentPage=1]

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/design-theory-in-architecture-and-landscape/#comment-95 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:54:04 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=146#comment-95 Apparently Norman Foster has designed a house in the Japanese style.

]]> By: stefan https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/design-theory-in-architecture-and-landscape/#comment-94 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:23:20 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=146#comment-94 in landscape design, i don’t think one style or approach can be applied across the board. every place is unique and requires a unique solution. the International Style might work in cities, which are international places, but can’t serve the needs of a small community like New Fryston. like a lot of places that were built to serve a vanished industry, this is somewhere that has had its context removed and needs to have its sense of identity re established.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/design-theory-in-architecture-and-landscape/#comment-93 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:22:12 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=146#comment-93 Yes indeed. Context-sensitive design is such an important issue, relating to both clients and to places, that it requires a complete revision of the International Style – and a new name. A style cannot be ‘International’ if it is also to be context-sensitive.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/design-theory-in-architecture-and-landscape/#comment-92 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:48:50 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=146#comment-92 Not sure I can work out what happened at Castleford. The promo seems to suggest it was a success and everyone is happy! I will also have to plead ignorance of mining towns in general…so I find it difficult to understand the context. However as a general comment….there is definitely a relationship of ‘fit’ between a designer and a location (including the landcape and the community). This is essential if the design is to be context sensitive, based on an understanding of place and people. Perhaps a simile could be made with the art market. Not all collectors of art buy the same pieces, display the same pieces, house the same pieces in the same environment and are patronised by the same people (either privately or publicly)? Perhaps this suggests something of the limitations of the universal international style?

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/design-theory-in-architecture-and-landscape/#comment-91 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:36:13 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=146#comment-91 I agree about the commissioning issue. The tried and trusted relationship is that of patron:designer. Decisions are taken by patrons but, if they have any sense, they trust and encourage the designers they employ. Public bodies, both elected and commercial, have upset this relationship by making the ‘client’ a shifting and nebulous entity. This has encouraged designers to develop a mistaken belief that they are independent artists, entitled to express their artistic ideas at their clients’ expense.

The final programme in Kevin McCloud’s Castleford series, shown last night (see http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/kevin-s-big-town-plan/) was very good in this respect. Kevin and the designers wanted to see ‘cutting edge design’. The client, including elected members and community representatives, wanted a ‘traditional’ design. This prompted Kevin to explain the problem as ‘wrong architects – wrong clients’. I suppose he meant that the clients and designers did were out of sympathy with each other – or was he thinking that the existing community should be replaced with lovers of stainless steel and jagged lines? My sympathies were entirely with the community: if they know what they want then the designers’ job is to provide what they want.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/design-theory-in-architecture-and-landscape/#comment-90 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:09:56 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=146#comment-90 In the context of art the idea of meaning has always been contested. The artist can particualr intentions, the public perceives another and the history of art recognises yet other attributes. These dichotomous relationships do not make a nonsense of art. Yet in the first instance how we proceed when we create something remains the fundamental question of design. The issues raised here go to the problem of procurement or the commissioning of works. If we are considering public art,for instance landscape or architecture – just what form should public involvement take?

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