As we contemplate a workshop where we’ve been asked to build a simple chair with a group of 3 and 4 year-olds, we are compelled to contemplate the complicated (and often messy) benefits of learning through making.
Being a contemporary architecture practice, we often feel the inherent separation of the act of design from the process of making buildings. We spend hours contemplating and resolving the ways in which we think spaces will come together – relying on our own knowledge and the knowledge of the experts around us, past experiences and grounded assumptions where necessary.
This is why the time when a project is on-site can be the most rewarding, but also the most challenging. It is the space where we confront these assumptions and develop new understandings about the process of making.
Having spent some time constructing simpler parts of a few of our own architectural designs, it’s always interesting how many blind spots you encounter on the path between the page and the completed project, no matter how well you think you’ve thought things through...
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Being a contemporary architecture practice, we often feel the inherent separation of the act of design from the process of making buildings. We spend hours contemplating and resolving the ways in which we think spaces will come together – relying on our own knowledge and the knowledge of the experts around us, past experiences and grounded assumptions where necessary.
This is why the time when a project is on-site can be the most rewarding, but also the most challenging. It is the space where we confront these assumptions and develop new understandings about the process of making.
Having spent some time constructing simpler parts of a few of our own architectural designs, it’s always interesting how many blind spots you encounter on the path between the page and the completed project, no matter how well you think you’ve thought things through...
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE