Archinect - Future Space2024-04-30T12:00:24-04:00https://archinect.com/blog/article/150041301/beyond-architecture
Beyond Architecture David Lehman2017-12-13T14:04:53-05:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/tk/tkjuevca6qov3y7x.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/tk/tkjuevca6qov3y7x.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a><figcaption>Renzo Piano and Richard Roger’s submission to international competition for the Centre Pompidou, Paris</figcaption></figure></figure><p>I’m not an architect, I’m something stranger. Yes, I graduated from architecture school, where I learned architectural process and history, but I never intended to stay strictly in the world of buildings. Instead, I was preparing myself for a broader approach to design. </p>
<p>Working with architects all over the world, I’ve come to appreciate those who understood architectural design as both a technical craft and an expressive medium. It’s also about creatively meeting a certain challenge and building an experience. But, as being an architect has increasingly become a multidisciplinary effort, incorporating elements of technology, content and graphic design, the professional experience has less and less to do with strictly architecture. </p>
<p>The result is a type of designer that’s harder to define; architects with solutions beyond architecture. And that’s ok. The world doesn’t need tradition...</p>