Do you find value in Lyon’s “Three F’s for an Architecture of Regionalism: fitting, framing, and forming?

Lyons’s idea of “Fitting” is essential in relating to the physical context of a site. This idea is not an original one. Many architects and thinkers have written about the practice of thoroughly relating a building to the landscape physically. Framing and forming are valuable as well, though not as clear and “black and white” in nature. The idea of leaving the final design up to the viewer, user, or occupant has potential to be great, but could also be disastrous. The designer can design, and the non designer usually cannot. An architect can fully finish a design without it being too much for an occupant to handle. If a non designe ends up altering or finishing a project, whether this is in a physical sense or merely an emotional or theoretical sense, the end result may be unfortunate.

Would you like to participate in building the Ghosts? (This implies, “would you like to have that design/build experience.” As it is expensive.)

I would like to have the opportunity to build the Ghosts, or another design/build experience, for that matter. It is one thing to draw a detail, but it is quite another to actually build that detail. I have some background in construction; this experience is often more memorable to me than when I attempt to learn and practice the same kind of architecture without building it. My memories are stronger and more vivid after building something. Doing a design/build project might help to bridge the gap between designer and builder, obviously, as a designer can realize that his or her way of designing is too time consuming, expensive, or problematic, also.