STRUCTUREDoing it right, and how you’d know
United States Of America by Joao Santos from the Noun Project
Photo from Library of Congress Detroit Publishing Collection, Call Number LC-D4-3320
Photo from Library of Congress Detroit Publishing Collection, Call Number LC-D4-3320
DESIGN IS THE
RENDERING
OF INTENT
Jared Spool
Steelcase Corporate Development Center in Gaines Township, Michigan Photo by Wikipedia contributor “Trance88”
1989
$111,000,000
Steelcase Corporate Development Center in Gaines Township, Michigan Photo by Dan Klyn
2014
$7,500,000
With kind permission of John Auchter, Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, July 27, 2009
Christian Norberg-Shulz
PLACES
REPRESENT
ARCHITECTURE’S
SHARE IN
TRUTH
“ There needs to be a place…
one place: one complete thought
around music… “ Trent Reznor
A PLACE
MADE OF
INFORMATION
Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut – Ronchamp by Le Corbusier. Photo by Jopa Elleul
1955
“Sculptured House” by Charles Deaton, photo credit unknown, Wikimedia Commons
1963
“Sleeper” by Woody Allen © United Artists 1973A scene from the film “Sleeper” by Woody Allen © United Artists 1973
1963
“Sculptured House” by Charles Deaton, photos by user “digijeff” on Flickr
I WANTED THE SHAPE OF IT
TO SING AN UNENCUMBERED SONG
1962
1962
West elevation blueprint drawing of TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport in New York City by Eero Saaranen
ALWAYS DESIGN A THING
BY CONSIDERING IT
IN ITS NEXT LARGER CONTEXT
Eliel Saaranen
Vintage postcard depicting the TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport in New York City by Eero Saaranen
1962
https://flic.kr/p/awoXAa https://flic.kr/p/awoXAa
19631962
1972
WHAT IS GOOD
STRUCTURE?Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa. Photograph by pictureTYO on Flickr
Nakagin Capsule Tower renderings from SciArcTokyo
TACTICS
Nakagin Capsule Tower renderings from SciArcTokyo
STRATEGY
Richard Saul Wurman Photograph by Melissa Mahoney
THERE IS NO
RIGHT WAY
Richard Saul Wurman
Richard Saul Wurman Photograph by Melissa Mahoney
Richard Saul Wurman
1894
Santler Dog Cart, the earliest British-made automobile. Photograph by Martin Godwin for The Guardian.
1899
Horsey Horseless, early American-made automobile. Illustration from TIME magazine online,
http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1657686,00.html
1397
Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto. Photo from California State University at Fullerton
http://nsm.fullerton.edu/usuzcpse/extensions/rokgallery/44-kinkakuji-temple-kyoto
607
Horyu Gakumonji in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.
TOWARD
GOOD
STRUCTURE
St. Francis de Sales Church in Muskegon, Michigan by Marcel Breuer. Photo by Dan Klyn
MAPPED INTENTIONS
An “Elephant Path” from the back cover of Jan-Dirk van der Burg’s book Olifantenpaadjes
http://www.amazon.com/Desire-Lines-Olifantenpaadjes-Jan-Dirk-Burg/dp/908176070X
MAPPED INTENTIONS
Desire Lines in Detriot by Sweet Juniper
http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009/06/streets-with-no-name.html
Alfred Korzybski
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY,
BUT IF CORRECT, IT HAS A SIMILAR STRUCTURE
WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR ITS USEFULNESS
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT
PERFORMANCE CONTINUUM
Service Acquire
EITHER / OR
YET
Acquire Service
Optimize Innovate
Now Future
Engagement Conversion
Service
TRUTH
INTENTION
Service Acquire
INTENT
STRUCTURE
Photo of Richard Saul Wurman for LOOK Magazine by Joel Baldwin
1971
Richard Saul Wurman
THE CLASSIC,
PERVASIVE
SEDUCTION TO
DESIGNERS HAS BEEN
TO FIND A SOLUTION
INSTEAD OF THE
TRUTH
MAPPED INTENTIONS
Photo of Zen Garden at the Richard and Hellen DeVos Japanese Garden by Dan Klyn
ARRANGE FOR MEANING
1989
From a special issue of Design Quarterly titled Hats, by Richard Saul Wurman
1989
From the first edition of Information Anxiety, by Richard Saul Wurman
CHANGE IN ARRANGEMENT
CHANGE IN MEANING
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CHANGED ARRANGEMENT =
CHANGED EXPERIENCE
“The Structural Integrity of Meaning Across Contexts”
- Jorge Arango
1972
Analysis of all of the words on advertising billboard signs along the Las Vegas “strip” in 1969, in Learning From Las Vegas ,
Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour, Published by MIT Press, Cambridge
STRUCTURE
INTENT
MEANING
DUMB MODELS
Promotional image of Derek Zoolander, played by Ben Stiller from the 2001 Paramount Pictures film Zoolander
2001
RHETORICAL > PICTORIAL
shopping shopping
quoting
rentals
quoting
requesting
customrentals
us
us
custom
HOBBS MODELS
150X/DAY
40HRS/MO
Photo by David Peter Simon
ENT
MEANING
STRUCTURE
MAP
ARRANGE
MODEL
Desk at The Glass House, by Philip Johnson in New Canaan, Connecticut USA. Photo by Dan Klyn
Steelcase Corporate Development Center in Gaines Township, Michigan Photo by Wikipedia contributor “Trance88”
1989
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kakeda/3956120566/in/photostream/
1989
Photo from Library of Congress Detroit Publishing Collection, Call Number LC-D4-3320
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