WHAT IS DESIGNING?

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DEFINITIONS
• Finding the right physical components of a physical structure (Alexander,1963)

• A goal-directed problem solving activity (Archer,1965)

• Decision making, in the face of uncertainty, with high penalties for error (Asimov, 1965)

• The conditioning factor for those parts of the product which come into contact with
people (Farr,1966)

• Relating product with situation to give satisfaction (Gregory, 1966)

• The performing of a very complicated act of faith (Jones,1966)

• The imaginative jump from present facts to future possibilities (Page, 1966)

• Simulating what we want to make (or do) before we make (or do) it as many times as
may be necessary to feel confident in the final result (Booker,1964)

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DEFINITIONS

• The optimum solution to the sum of the true needs of a particular set of circumstances
(Matchett, 1968)

• A creative activity - it involves bringing into being something new and useful that has not
existed previously ( reswick)

• Engineering design is the use of scientific principles, technical information and

imagination in the definition of a mechanical structure, machine or system to perform
pre-specified functions with maximum economy and efficiency (Fielden,1963)

Nobody mentioned drawing.

Designing is not the same under all circumstances.
The effect of designing is to initiate change in man-made things

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WHAT NOT?

Not beautification
Not ornamentation
Not without reason

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THE DESIGNER’S OBJECTIVES

• Traditionally to produce drawings

• New definition- the initiation of change in man-made things

• The designers must predict the ultimate effects of their proposed design

• Bringing in the change - is a series of events which starts with the supply of materials
and components to the producer and ends with the evolutionary effects upon society

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SCIENCE, ART OR MATHEMATICS ?

• Should not be confused with art, with science or with mathematics

• It is a hybrid activity of all the three.
• The main point of difference is the timing.
• Both artists and scientists operate on physical world as it exists in present (whether it is
real or symbolic), while mathematicians operate on abstract relationships that are
independent of historical time.
• Designers, are forever bound to treat as real that which exists only in an imagined
future and have to specify ways in which the foreseen thing can be made to exist.

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WHY ARCHITECTURE AS YOUR

PROFESSION ?

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7 REASONS THAT COULD CONVINCE ANYONE TO TAKE UP
ARCHITECTURE AS A PROFESSION

1. An Architect is a sort of an inventor. Like an inventor who goes about making and designing new gadgets, you go around
designing new buildings. Architecture is a very satisfying profession You’ll get a tremendous sense of delight after your concepts on
paper transform into real buildings. You’ll know the joy of creation in this field of Architecture…
2. A course in Architecture is a lot of fun. Unlike traditional colleges where you must slog yourself in study halls and libraries,
reading and writing all the time, a course in Architecture gives you the liberty to use the right side of your brain, the creative part.
You get a lot of opportunities to showcase your creativity and ingenuity while designing structures.
3. Architecture is a very high paying field. Once you get through the course and pass out with good grades, you’d be pursued by
large firms looking for fresh talent and new ideas.
4. An Architect can implement his/her dream. Architects can design and
5. The work of an Architect one of the most challenging and enjoyable imaginable. Every building is different. Every project is
different. There is absolutely no monotony in life. The thrill and the challenge of work is exhilarating to say the least.
6. If you’re the kind of person who likes to work with his (or her) hands, then Architecture is the right profession for you. In
Architecture study course, you get to work with your hands. Its not just about reading and writing all the time, but you must have a
hands-on approach on many assignments. Building scale models, making surveys, talking to people… its a very active field.
7. Architecture may sound like a 9 to 5 office job, but its not,Its a lot more than that. Even as a student of Architecture, you
get to work on real-life problems of designing functional buildings. If you like to hit the road every now and then, you’re in for
some luck. In this profession, you get to travel a lot. You have to put your feet on the ground, and visit construction sites.

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 The Salk
Institute
complex in
La Jolla,
California,
by architect
Louis Kahn

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 National
Assembly
Building,
Dhaka
architect
Louis Kahn ,
1982

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 National
Assembly
Building
by Louis I.
Kahn

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 The Robie House,
1910, in Chicago
Frank Lloyd
Wright

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 The
Bauhaus
building at
Dessau,
Germany,
designed by
Walter
Gropius

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TWA Terminal, John F. Kennedy Airport, New York, 1962, by Eero Saarinen

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 Falling water or
Kaufmann
Residence
Frank Lloyd
Wright in 1935

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 Habitat_67,Canada by architect Moshe Safdie

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 Dancing Tower by Zaha hadid
Dubai
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A London landmark: The Lloyd’s Building by Richard Rogers
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 Gherkin Building, London
by norman foster

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Bench by ZAHA HADID

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Liquid glacial table by ZAHA HADID

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 Liquid
glacial
table
by
ZAHA
HADID

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 Furniture designed by Libeskind

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Lamp designed by Libeskind
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Ladies shoe by ZAHA HADID

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Bauhaus furniture

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