HOW TO DESIGN?

METHODS? ENDS
STAFFING

Is the design private?

is it a combination of individual inspiration & coorperative

verification & elaboration?

Walter Groups integrate both views in the earliest century:

”It is true that creative spark originates always with the

individual, but by working in close collaboration with others
toward a common end, he will attain greater heights of
achievment through the simulation and challenging critique of
his teammates than by living in a ivory tower.”
 PROCEDURES
Where should one begin?
What design process is the best?

Inductive Begin with details Through accretion the details, or partial solutions,
then finally add up to complete built form

Design Procedures

Deductive Begin with overall idea about the building

and let the details flow by themselves
PRIORITIES AMONG VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE
PROBLEM
Hans Poelzing For Mies van der Rohe

”every real tectonics form has an absolute nucleus,
to which the decorative embellishment. Which
certain limits is changeable, lends a variying charm.
First, however, the absolute element has to be found.
Even if as yet in an imperfect, rough, form. And the
artist who approaches the design of structural
element safely from the viewpoint of external,
decorative considerations distracts attention from
the discovery of the pure nuclear form.’’
“I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal. And I
do this as the result of a number of experiences and
the insights I have gained from them. form as a goal
always and in formalism. For this striving is directed
not to towards an inside has a living outside. Only
intensity of life has intensity of form.”