Words #003

 “ Whenever you see the word ‘green’ in the name of a building code, cross it out and write the words ‘high performance’ instead.  When green criteria move into the building code we will be looking at a new normal.  And meeting the building code is not something the majority of architects is going to hire a consultant to do.  It is an opportunity for us, as a profession, to build new value for what we do.”

 [AIA. Design:Art+Science. Episode One.  Hosted by Jennifer Devlin-Herbert, FAIA, Principal at EHDD]

Words #002

(...) we should be wary of focusing our argument on the bottom line. Architecture and design are fundamentally useless activities when viewed through the lens of a project manager’s spreadsheet. That’s why so much bad design is commissioned: because it doesn't make any difference when it is totalled up in a column. Project managers get fired because buildings are late or go over budget, but rarely because a building isn’t very good.

[Sam Jacob, FAT, column in Dezeen Magazine]