Design Matters: Six Questions, Many Answers AICP CM 1.5 Six questions. So many answers! Meet national leaders from three collaborative design disciplines -- American Institute of Architects, American Society of Landscape Architects and American Planning Association -- and see how each tackles the same six questions. Hear how they meet similar design challenges but with different values and priorities for why design matters. A series of three questions will be addressed by the panel to begin the discussion, and then the audience will expand the conversation by posing additional quesitons and issues that they face. Moderator: Ron Stewart, AIA, Principal, ZGF Architects, LLP, Portland, Oregon William Anderson, FAICP, President, American Planning Association; Principal/Vice President, Director of Economics and Planning for US West, AECOM, San Diego, California Mark A. Focht, FASLA, PLA, President, American Society Landscape Architects, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Russell A. Davidson, AIA, Vice President, 2016 President Elect, American Institute of Architects; President, Kaeyer, Garment & Davidson, Mount Kisco, New York

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DESIGN
MATTERS?

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Commodity,
Firmness &
Delight
-Vitruvius (30 bc)

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What is good design?
Design is a process and a product.
Design Thinking
1. Listen & Research – Define the
Problem / Opportunity
2. Create and Consider Many
Options
3. Refine Selected Option
4. Repeat Steps 1- 3 (Optional)
5. Execute the Selected Approach

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“One used to arrive in New
York like a prince; now one
scurries in like a rat.”
-Vincent Scully

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What is good design?
Good Design is:
Resilient,
Accessible,
Promotes Well-Being,
Sustainable &
Creates a Healthy Environment.
Good Design Makes Excellent Places.

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Spirit of Place or Genius Loci – A Roman Concept
Every place has its genius, its guardian spirit which
determines its character or essence.
Authentic Place-Making vs. Generic Planning

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WHAT PART DO
THEY PLAY?
Architects,
Engineers,
Landscape Architects
& Planners

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28. There is no doubt whatever about the
influence of architecture and
structure upon human character and
action. We make our buildings and
afterwards they make us. They
regulate the course of our lives.
- Winston Churchill
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29. Architectural historian Vincent Scully has said that
architecture is a conversation between the generations,
carried out across time, and while you could say that this
is true of all forms of art and culture, in architecture the
conversation is most conspicuous, the most obvious, the
most impossible to tune out. We may not all participate
in the conversation, but we all have to listen to it. For that
reason alone, architecture matters: because it is all
around us, and what is all around us has to have an effect
on us. That effect may be subtle and barely noticeable, or
it may shake us to the core, but it will never fail to be
there.
- Excerpt from Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger
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