val·ue n.
ӢAn amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.
ӢWorth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit: the value of an education.
”¢A principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable: “The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility” (Jonathan Alter).
I'd like to start this discussion of what "Value" truely means in architecture. What does it mean to you? How can we as architects express value in the building? How can we as designers for the general public design for the values of the client?
Keep adding questions to keep this thread running.
p.s. keep kickin' ass!
"Value has two faces. The one better known is basic, common, practical. It offers much, costs little. It's an easy buy for the masses.
The other visage is more exclusive. It turns away from the ordinary in passionate pursuit of power, beauty and soul. It seeks to distinguish itself from its own class. It costs much. But its patrons see only its virtues, not its expense. In that regard, it is value as oxymoron  the priceless available to a special few for a price.
It is the difference between a Timex watch and a Jaeger-LeCoultre, a Holiday Inn anywhere and the classic Victorian beauty of the Hotel del Coronado here. It is the difference between a sports car commonly defined and the 2005 Aston Martin DB9 coupe, which is its own definition of that motorized genre."
Value: a definition!
val·ue n.
ӢAn amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.
ӢWorth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit: the value of an education.
”¢A principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable: “The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility” (Jonathan Alter).
I'd like to start this discussion of what "Value" truely means in architecture. What does it mean to you? How can we as architects express value in the building? How can we as designers for the general public design for the values of the client?
Keep adding questions to keep this thread running.
p.s. keep kickin' ass!
Getting more in return from each construction dollar spent, than would reasonably be expected from most other sources.
from the LA times review of the new aston martin
"Value has two faces. The one better known is basic, common, practical. It offers much, costs little. It's an easy buy for the masses.
The other visage is more exclusive. It turns away from the ordinary in passionate pursuit of power, beauty and soul. It seeks to distinguish itself from its own class. It costs much. But its patrons see only its virtues, not its expense. In that regard, it is value as oxymoron  the priceless available to a special few for a price.
It is the difference between a Timex watch and a Jaeger-LeCoultre, a Holiday Inn anywhere and the classic Victorian beauty of the Hotel del Coronado here. It is the difference between a sports car commonly defined and the 2005 Aston Martin DB9 coupe, which is its own definition of that motorized genre."
Synergy: noun
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