Committee on Design

I got off the point in the Process section of my previous submittal. The section discussed projects and contingencies that have been a pet peeve of mine. In my opinion architecture creates prototypes and contingencies represent the cost of anticipation required. A prototype does not become a final product without an adjustment cost, but this is another topic. I'd like to make the points I should have under the following sections of my submittal: Process, Goals & Objectives, Awareness and Goals.

PROCESS

Architecture is a prototype that serves a limited special interest. Its public benefit has been mandated but not embraced. An emphasis on public benefit will equate architecture to medicine and law, but this will require additional levels of awareness and expanded goals.

GOALS and OBJECTIVES

An architectural prototype is the responsibility of a practitioner, like a doctor's responsibility to treat a patient. It is only an organizational responsibility when support to the entire profession is considered. This responsibility is to improve the tools, knowledge and concepts placed in the hands of a practitioner to improve the public benefit provided. (Repeat of previous text submitted) I believe this distinction is at the heart of an architectural repositioning discussion. The question to be debated, in my opinion, is one of organizational goals and practitioner goals. I'd like to suggest three levels of awareness and three organizational goals that would involve repositioning.

All text under Awareness and Goals in the first submittal remains, except for the following replacements.

Awareness

To recognize that design matters because we must learn to live within geographic limits and function symbiotically. Form and appearance must follow symbiotic function. This is the message of hope from Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. It is a level of awareness that can lead to The Symbiotic Period.

Goals

To improve the design of shelter capacity, intensity and symbiotic function for growing populations within a geographically limited Built Domain that protects their quality and source of life -- the Natural Domain. Form, function and appearance will evolve from the policy established.

I got off the point in the Process section of my previous submittal. The section discussed projects and contingencies that have been a pet peeve of mine. In my opinion architecture creates prototypes and contingencies represent the cost of anticipation required. A prototype does not become a final product without an adjustment cost, but this is another topic. I'd like to make the points I should have under the following sections of my submittal: Process, Goals & Objectives, Awareness and Goals.

PROCESS

Architecture is a prototype that serves a limited special interest. Its public benefit has been mandated but not embraced. An emphasis on public benefit will equate architecture to medicine and law, but this will require additional levels of awareness and expanded goals.

GOALS and OBJECTIVES

An architectural prototype is the responsibility of a practitioner, like a doctor's responsibility to treat a patient. It is only an organizational responsibility when support to the entire profession is considered. This responsibility is to improve the tools, knowledge and concepts placed in the hands of a practitioner to improve the public benefit provided. (Repeat of previous text submitted) I believe this distinction is at the heart of an architectural repositioning discussion. The question to be debated, in my opinion, is one of organizational goals and practitioner goals. I'd like to suggest three levels of awareness and three organizational goals that would involve repositioning.

All text under Awareness and Goals in the first submittal remains, except for the following replacements.

Awareness

To recognize that design matters because we must learn to live within geographic limits and function symbiotically. Form and appearance must follow symbiotic function. This is the message of hope from Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. It is a level of awareness that can lead to The Symbiotic Period.

Goals

To improve the design of shelter capacity, intensity and symbiotic function for growing populations within a geographically limited Built Domain that protects their quality and source of life -- the Natural Domain. Form, function and appearance will evolve from the policy established.