“The historic rupture between doing and being….is…the expression of an essential malaise in  modern man and society. The cure for this malaise lies in art: in building, dwelling and thinking.”  De Sola-Morales

Community expectations of the role of architecture and the performance and competency of architects in the process of creating architecture are the starting points for all design. But these departures should always be critiqued.

The outcome should be a built solution that is economical, sustainable, socially responsible and culturally significant. The result should always be rigorously evaluated.

In between is a plethora of decisions, interactions, disagreements, comings together, reaching beyonds, shortfalls, ideas rejected and kept, mutated and grafted.

Good design is a messy business and if it isn’t it should be suspect. A project never really starts and it definitely never ends. Architecture is a participatory pursuit. It is hard and it should be worthy.

“…specific conditions are increasingly emerging as the only possible elements on which to base a project.” Vittorio Gregotti