Sunday, July 26, 2009

Client point of view

"Our relationship to architecture is less that of a driver to a vehicle than of a consumer to a meal. The consumer (inhabitants) is concerned not with the evolutionary process and pressures that lead an animal (building) to take a certain form but with what tastes and textures results from that process (such as atmosphere)." - Reiser Umemoto Architects in Atlas of Novel Tectonics

What makes a building appreciative by the inhabitants is not necessarily the methodologies and techniques implemented during the process of creating the project, but the (perceivable) environmental qualities given as the result of using these methodologies and techniques. Inhabitants must feel the difference.

Driver to vehicle: Eisenman's House Series
Consumer to meal: OMA's Seattle Library.

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