101 Things I learned in Architecture School

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Architecture begins with an idea.

Good design solution are not merely physically interesting but are driven by underlying ideas. An idea is a specific mental structure by which we organize, understand and give meaning to external experiences and information. Without underlying ideas informing their buildings, architects are merely space planners. Space planning with decoration applied to "dress it up" is not architecture; architecture resides in the DNA of a building, in an embedded sensibility that infuses its whole.