General lack of content

[jhetley]

At some time in the future content may exist.

Comments

[nathelmi.livejournal.com]

In content, are we talking harmony, or material?

A morning without input from you is like coffee without the coffee- lacking fortitude, wry commentary, and perspective.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Place the accent as you will. I had been intending first syllable, but the world seems to lean toward other intentions. This would be a general tendency, rather than specific focus.

[prophet-marcus.livejournal.com]

Remind me to ask sometime about why so many of your fellow architects seem unable to grasp that the buildings, especially commercial/public ones, have actual functions which their designs must support. From your various rants/comments on projects you've been involved with over the years, it seems that such blindness is not an actual requirement for the job.

I'm sure your son has found time to comment on many of the design flaws of various structures around the campus, so I expect you know the sort of thing I'm talking about.

Should I just chalk it up to the evils of low-bidders?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Some of the functional failure roots in arrogance, of course, a sense that the Designer knows how a building should work and doesn't need to ask the users. However, sometimes we can't hear what isn't said...

And sometimes the client, the man or group that signs off on design and checks, doesn't know what the actual users actually need.

And sometimes further, like a famous library in Paris, the desired building is a monument and visual icon rather than a functioning library.