MACKAY-LYONS

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

I don’t think anyone can disagree with Lyons’ Three F’s.  Fitting – or context – is something we are taught in school to value right from the beginning of our design process.  Framing – or structural skeleton – helps to give shape to a building in a similar way our own human skeletons dictate our outward appearances of uniqueness and beauty.  Forming – as I have already indicated in framing – is the final step in the design process that is informed by its preceding processes.  Together, these Three F’s that Lyons has defined are a great way of summarizing our creative journey through designing a work of architecture.

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

Like Lyons’ Three F’s, I also see value in design/build.  Design/build has become a powerful and effective way of designing and constructing the built environment.  It ties into the strength of learning by doing or kinesthetic learning.  Not only could design/build give us a better understanding of each aspect of the built environment – both the design and the build processes – but also a better understanding of each profession that capitalizes on each process respectively.

-Sam Sudy