Culture is not always popular

1. What is their argument/message?

• They are arguing about the schooling and information that designers learn, and if "over-intellectual words cause you to be counterproductive".

2. What is one thing you agree with in the article?

• I agree with the early statement that to be popular you have to act dumber, because we are growing up in a society where everything has to do with looks at outside appreance instead of the smarts you have inside. In the media, people who act like they don't know anything are the ones that everyone knows and cares about.

3. What is one think you disagree with in the article?

• It was stated that designers create a body of work and not have a body of knowledge. I disagree with this because we may not know the supreme court justices, but if you ask us anything about structure or houses, we can answer those question. We have to study and learn from former architects, learn codes for buildings and structures, and memorize all the vocabulary terms that goes along with a building. People may think we don't have any knowledge because its not the things there learning, but we have to have a large vocabulary under our belts for us to succed in this profession.

3. How do you think they would define innovation?

• I think they would define innovation as taking aspects from all different topics and subjects to create a design. I feel they think designers should have a broader learning cirriculum where they learn more history, geography, etc, so we can take all these different subjects and use them to strengthen our designs.  

Innovation Types

Falling Water, designed by Wright, is an example of a aesthetic innovation, which is defined as the product's external appearance, those attributes that can be judged at first sight with no need to interact with the product or understand it. Falling Water fits this definition because the appearance of the building is not normally common, due to the water fall it cantilevers over. Thus, this design breaks the normality of a house, and establishes new possibilities of where houses can be built and what environments compliment it.

The Mason A Bordeaux, designed by Rem Koolhass, is an example of typographic innovation, which is defined as deviation of a product from its formal archetype. The Mason Bordeaux fits this definition becuase the archetypical multi-story building uses stairs to allow people to move from one level to another; however, due to a handicap man living here, this building uses an elevator style platform to mover between floors. Thus, its form breaks with the dominant mode, and establishes new designs for handicaps to travel from one floor to the next.

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Griffith's states that finding an environment suitable for one's design is a critical step in moving past the stage of designing. Griffith's and his team created many different unique and helpful inventions, but if no company or group wanted to help it grow, then the idea is useless. Architects run into this issue multiple times when design a new building. For one example the idea of creating a house over a body of water or cliff was a struggle for people to finally allow to be tested. Frank Lloyd Wright is a well-known architect for his skill in creating buildings that become one with nature. Frank Lloyd Wright designed Falling Water half over the waterfall it sat beside. At first the clients, the Kauffmans, want the house to just sit beside the waterfall, but Frank talked them into believe it would work, and now that house is one of the top known places in the United States. Wright's determination to prove that the house cantilevering over the waterfall would become famous is now one of his most famous designs. Every architect faces different challenges on how far to push the envelope on creative design, and sometimes the owner wants nothing to do with it, while others becomes a easily recognized piece of work.