A dramatic organizational technique which can undeniably create complex spaces. Does this mean that these spaces have meaningful experiential implications. Am I just trying to sound smart? I will let you be the judge.

How do you start your design process? Within school we are taught to start with an understanding of the general. This understanding will inevitably lead to the detailing of the specific. Is our understanding backwards. I heard an interesting story today about an architect who started each project with a simple detail. Each detail lead to a complete building. I was later informed that this is a design process that was used by Mies Van der Rohe.

I began thinking about how this could change a final critique. Within my school, the process is second to your final design. In many critiques, process diagrams and sketch models are left back in the studios.

Well, as the semester rolls on the antics begin to emerge. Here are a couple of images to give you the atmosphere.


Ravioli running around in a beer bottle suit


Look at that intensity


Danny Dolittle is Doing little