it'd take me paragraph(s?) to convey the concept of design systems having personality (be it of a single designer, or the relationship/history of the city/building/whatever-scale) and questioning "facts" and probing various things. some things push back, some things give; sometimes you peel back layered patchworks of systems.
when traveling, i love walking around and intentionally getting lost and trying to "listen" [1] when visiting a new town/city -- i've always considered this my "greeting" or "polite conversation" with a city.
if the above is a conversation, then something more brutal or invasive is an interrogation. i've done enough construction/renovation work that i have a solid grasp of residential building codes and their changes over past 20 years, and a more corse understanding for past 50+ years. when starting a project, there's a "slightly invasive" probing that takes place to understand what era(s) of building codes you're dealing with and what you can exploit or what may be an obstacle.
so, yeah, i find "interrogations of urban design an architecture" to be a extremely efficient and dense encoding of knowledge.
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it'd take me paragraph(s?) to convey the concept of design systems having personality (be it of a single designer, or the relationship/history of the city/building/whatever-scale) and questioning "facts" and probing various things. some things push back, some things give; sometimes you peel back layered patchworks of systems.
when traveling, i love walking around and intentionally getting lost and trying to "listen" [1] when visiting a new town/city -- i've always considered this my "greeting" or "polite conversation" with a city.
if the above is a conversation, then something more brutal or invasive is an interrogation. i've done enough construction/renovation work that i have a solid grasp of residential building codes and their changes over past 20 years, and a more corse understanding for past 50+ years. when starting a project, there's a "slightly invasive" probing that takes place to understand what era(s) of building codes you're dealing with and what you can exploit or what may be an obstacle.
so, yeah, i find "interrogations of urban design an architecture" to be a extremely efficient and dense encoding of knowledge.
[1] smaller or older cities, walkable.