Thursday, September 8, 2011
Revision of 8/29
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.
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Heather brings up the point that "funding an environment suitable for one's design is a critical step in moving past the stage of designing." In what I have seen in Industrial design I agree with what she is saying. Many times industrial designers have made products that are not "normal" and many consumers do not buy into it. It takes a lot of convincing and advertising to make many consumers believe that this product is the next best thing. In doing this designers push the limits of design and create a higher level that some consumers may or may not agree with.
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