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Permalink Reply by Keith Struthers on September 29, 2011 at 16:52

We find its essential to broaden your scope of practice and repertoire of expression.

The course 'Designing for awareness' offered by Naturals Cool specifically addresses this issues  with the view to broadening designers and architects methodology and scope of expression. see www.naturalscool.com for courses to be held in November in JHB. Its really worth while since this is only one of the issues addressed.

When you consider that the majority of our everyday items are made from a balance of curved and straight surfaces and many architects unlike most other designers have selected to limit themselves to straights only. A very masculine approach. A balance is definitely needed to take us into the future.

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Permalink Reply by Brendon Micheletti on October 4, 2011 at 12:05

Design can indeed find inspiration from other industries, however the reality is such that design is also driven my local beliefs i.e. corrugated sheet is cheap or that concrete block is for low cost construction.

People outside the architectural industry (home owner, developer etc) need to be educated to the fact that a curve is a good thing and that it is ok not to have a tiled pitch roof. Most architects are dying to be creative with form and materials, in general it is the everyday client that is unsure of the new.

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Permalink Reply by marius erasmus on October 7, 2011 at 12:03

If other industries did not influence architecture, architecture as a public space or dwelling could not exist. That is why the Bauhaus taught sculpting, pottery etc.

 

Architecture is created from ideas that we see and translated to something useable, (hopefully).

 

This is quite a strange topic, I find it very obvious, but maybe it is to educate the public or to make architecs and designers to become aware again.

 

I think a good example is signage on malls and retail. Architects SHOULD work together with the graphic designers/ signage pro's to incorporate signage as part of the overal design, that is one area where both parties go at it the wrong way.

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Permalink Reply by Kate Sithole on November 8, 2011 at 14:25

Yes

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