by steve

an architect friend of mine shared this with me, and now I, with you… Favorite sections include this:

By 2000 too, computer aided design (CAD) had arrived in architecture schools with a vengeance: much twirling, no drawing, accompanied by lots of loose talk and cool diagrams treating buildings as “systems” that “worked with” nature (or better, with “natural systems”). For the most part, in architecture offices around the world, CAD merely sped up the design of practical buildings by cutting down the time for reflection and serendipity, for noise and chance, to enter the process.

and this

Chances are that our workplaces are bare and over-lit, that they’re furnished in metal and wood-veneer, and that they have a tinted, sound-stopping, non- opening window (if they have a window at all) facing a patch of low-maintenance “landscape.”