Thursday 14 January 2010

_Architecture as Support Structure


As M. Scott Ball writes in Expanding the Role of the Architect, ‘the well-being of all communities is inherently valuable to the health of our profession.  How can we understand architecture as a support structure?  Can this approach help us to engage more fully with communities and create work which in turn engages with its surroundings over time?

The primary catalyst for my practice has been my willingness to be useful first, and then figure out how my usefulness is architectural.  I rely heavily on invitations and value the possibilities that they reveal for architecture to find relevant expression.
M. Scott Ball, Expanding the Role of the Architect, in Good Deeds, Good Design

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