i watched your video spike, and i have no idea how it relates to anything.
julio's question just leads to more questions. are you an architect that doesn't give a shit about your clients? then the answer is easy. beauty. are you paying for the building? if so, economy will become a bit more important. if you're paying for the building and you think you can get a good return on beauty due to the tenants or customers you will be attracting, and you can afford it, beauty still may be ahead of economy. if a REIT or similar 'corporate' or equity entity that isn't actually human is paying for the building, and you represent that entity, and the entity wants to build something quick and turn it over fast for a quick profit, economy may lead beauty but there are actually other factors involved. if you're an architect and you actually listen to your clients, then whether beauty or economy is preeminent may depend on their values.
Every project has a budget, so economy should always be important. But beauty is why I do what I do. If you give a shit about your clients, create beautiful things for them.
eke's comment is good an noble and i appreciate that.
if we were to accept miles's 2 points as reality based, especially the first one, then would eke's point be to design what the client thinks is beautiful, or what the architect thinks is beautiful? or, more importantly, do we all think expensive is good?
Most clients select an architect based on a style that they imagine is the style of the social class they aspire to belong to. They are largely deficient in the kind of education and experience necessary for art appreciation or even a modest sense of aesthetics.
Regarding expense: featurization, name branding and gold plating is far more expensive than thoughtful design and careful craft. Expense should also include environmental costs, maintenance, life-cycle, etc.
These quotes highlight the great conundrum surrounding the subject of beauty. Goethe and Plato believed that beauty was an objective thing, something that exists in the universe, that we can occasionally glimpse. Hume obviously did not.
One school of thought says an object must first be beautiful, and only then will anyone care if it has a function. Another school of thought is that if something functions flawlessly it will therefore be beautiful.
I'm disappointed.I think now people talk too much in french on this forum.I'm really disappointed and i will never come back on this website.Especially the way you talk to me.
What??? Seriously? Only a few post in French in good fun and to joke around. I'm not French, but I love the language. If you are actually serious, you need a thicker skin ... especially in architecture.
ahh c'mon Julio. I thought all the uncritical out of context philosophy quotes were offensive, but it wouldn't stop me from chatting with the one and only Jean Nouvel.
But if Leonard Nimoy were posting in french, well then i'd never come back either.
Which of them is pre-eminent between beauty and economy?
I always wondered between beauty and economy,which of them is pre-eminent.Sometimes i think beauty,but often i am obliged to consider economy.
this oughtta put that question to bed.
Sorry,i don't understand.
i watched your video spike, and i have no idea how it relates to anything.
julio's question just leads to more questions. are you an architect that doesn't give a shit about your clients? then the answer is easy. beauty. are you paying for the building? if so, economy will become a bit more important. if you're paying for the building and you think you can get a good return on beauty due to the tenants or customers you will be attracting, and you can afford it, beauty still may be ahead of economy. if a REIT or similar 'corporate' or equity entity that isn't actually human is paying for the building, and you represent that entity, and the entity wants to build something quick and turn it over fast for a quick profit, economy may lead beauty but there are actually other factors involved. if you're an architect and you actually listen to your clients, then whether beauty or economy is preeminent may depend on their values.
Every project has a budget, so economy should always be important. But beauty is why I do what I do. If you give a shit about your clients, create beautiful things for them.
its simple curt:
learn to jam econo.
distinction disappears.
1) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
2) Most clients think expensive is good, except when they have to pay retail.
eke's comment is good an noble and i appreciate that.
if we were to accept miles's 2 points as reality based, especially the first one, then would eke's point be to design what the client thinks is beautiful, or what the architect thinks is beautiful? or, more importantly, do we all think expensive is good?
How do you define beauty?
Most clients select an architect based on a style that they imagine is the style of the social class they aspire to belong to. They are largely deficient in the kind of education and experience necessary for art appreciation or even a modest sense of aesthetics.
Regarding expense: featurization, name branding and gold plating is far more expensive than thoughtful design and careful craft. Expense should also include environmental costs, maintenance, life-cycle, etc.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
-Goethe
Beauty is the joy felt by the soul as it remembers Unity.
-Plotinus
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
- Stendahl
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
-- Petrarch
The good is the beautiful.
-Plato
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, you will nourish true virtue, to become the friend of God.
-Plato
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
-- David Hume
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
-- Ambrose Bierce
These quotes highlight the great conundrum surrounding the subject of beauty. Goethe and Plato believed that beauty was an objective thing, something that exists in the universe, that we can occasionally glimpse. Hume obviously did not.
I side with Plato and Goethe. :)
Economy is beautiful.
I don't care how pretty it is, if it doesn't work it's garbage. Even worse, it's a waste of time, materials and money.
Well, Hib, why don't you move your chair?
Jean nouvel,what do you think of virtual model?
Un bon architecte crée un modèle virtuel dans sa tête.
Si vous ne pouvez pas faire cela, vous n'êtes pas un architecte.
Etes-vous le vrai jean nouvel?
Je crois que ce n'est pas possible. Le vrai Jean Nouvel a beucoup d'argent et lui n'a pas du temp pour jouer avec les "plebes" sur "archinect."
I'm disappointed.I think now people talk too much in french on this forum.I'm really disappointed and i will never come back on this website.Especially the way you talk to me.
What??? Seriously? Only a few post in French in good fun and to joke around. I'm not French, but I love the language. If you are actually serious, you need a thicker skin ... especially in architecture.
Un architecte ne peut pas avoir une telle peau fine.
^
D'accord. Peut etre nous avons besoin d'ecrir en Espanol pour lui ... pour maintainer la paix.
ahh c'mon Julio. I thought all the uncritical out of context philosophy quotes were offensive, but it wouldn't stop me from chatting with the one and only Jean Nouvel.
But if Leonard Nimoy were posting in french, well then i'd never come back either.
Ne vous inquiétez pas. Je ne suis certainement pas Leonard Nimoy.
^
Mais je suis William Shatner ... un version jeun. Savez-vous que lui est ne' a Montreal?
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