“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers” said Voltaire about three centuries ago... more “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers” said Voltaire about three centuries ago. I found this particularly useful when you do not have perfect answer to intricate problems because good questions enrich the conversation more than erroneous answers. But it might also have negative consequences had the questions do not vary from each other.
As I dived into the topic and did my research on building obsolescence in China, surprisingly, the question has always been the same, sometimes with subtle differences to the original: “How will slowing China cope with rapidly aging buildings?” After reading and listening to prominent texts and figures it was not hard to point out what is obvious. All intellectual thoughts given to the issue has poured into one container and all facts about China’s growth into another, there was no mix. Then I wondered, “How come we extract an answer if we fail to ask right questions?”
This paper explores the underlying, mostly intangible, elements of urbanization in the context of China and why they are so important to see as an integral part of the bigger picture. This work also brings those intangible and soft factors to the center of discussion as opposed to having to content with popular headlines that have at least three question or exclamation marks.
Given the insights collected in Professor Jerold Kayden’s class in Harvard University Graduate Sc... more Given the insights collected in Professor Jerold Kayden’s class in Harvard University Graduate School of Design named ‘Design Competitions’, this work aims to manifest a certain perspective to be realized in the making of design competition by referencing the AIA’s Handbook of Architectural Design Competitions for being relatively the most comprehensive publication today although it has been inadequate addressing the fairness of competitions and setting a firm ground on which design competitions can be just to all stakeholders and other indirect beneficiaries.
Therefore, before design competition method is abandoned or less preferred due to high level of exploitation and having been false utilized, the unique opportunity that design competitions have offered to both individuals and public must be preserved.
Believing deeply the promises of design competition method, this work becomes very important to write especially for the reasons that there is no single institutional binding which can make the process just, and even the most reliable resources about architectural design competitions have been unresponsive to fairness problem and far from being suggestive, yet mostly focuses on the documentation of the practices for archives.
For above reasons, this work has been developed for those who have involved or likely to involve in architectural design competitions to portray how architectural design competition should be conducted, had the fairness is the priority of the business as it should.
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers” said Voltaire about three centuries ago... more “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers” said Voltaire about three centuries ago. I found this particularly useful when you do not have perfect answer to intricate problems because good questions enrich the conversation more than erroneous answers. But it might also have negative consequences had the questions do not vary from each other.
As I dived into the topic and did my research on building obsolescence in China, surprisingly, the question has always been the same, sometimes with subtle differences to the original: “How will slowing China cope with rapidly aging buildings?” After reading and listening to prominent texts and figures it was not hard to point out what is obvious. All intellectual thoughts given to the issue has poured into one container and all facts about China’s growth into another, there was no mix. Then I wondered, “How come we extract an answer if we fail to ask right questions?”
This paper explores the underlying, mostly intangible, elements of urbanization in the context of China and why they are so important to see as an integral part of the bigger picture. This work also brings those intangible and soft factors to the center of discussion as opposed to having to content with popular headlines that have at least three question or exclamation marks.
Given the insights collected in Professor Jerold Kayden’s class in Harvard University Graduate Sc... more Given the insights collected in Professor Jerold Kayden’s class in Harvard University Graduate School of Design named ‘Design Competitions’, this work aims to manifest a certain perspective to be realized in the making of design competition by referencing the AIA’s Handbook of Architectural Design Competitions for being relatively the most comprehensive publication today although it has been inadequate addressing the fairness of competitions and setting a firm ground on which design competitions can be just to all stakeholders and other indirect beneficiaries.
Therefore, before design competition method is abandoned or less preferred due to high level of exploitation and having been false utilized, the unique opportunity that design competitions have offered to both individuals and public must be preserved.
Believing deeply the promises of design competition method, this work becomes very important to write especially for the reasons that there is no single institutional binding which can make the process just, and even the most reliable resources about architectural design competitions have been unresponsive to fairness problem and far from being suggestive, yet mostly focuses on the documentation of the practices for archives.
For above reasons, this work has been developed for those who have involved or likely to involve in architectural design competitions to portray how architectural design competition should be conducted, had the fairness is the priority of the business as it should.
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As I dived into the topic and did my research on building obsolescence in China, surprisingly, the question has always been the same, sometimes with subtle differences to the original: “How will slowing China cope with rapidly aging buildings?” After reading and listening to prominent texts and figures it was not hard to point out what is obvious. All intellectual thoughts given to the issue has poured into one container and all facts about China’s growth into another, there was no mix. Then I wondered, “How come we extract an answer if we fail to ask right questions?”
This paper explores the underlying, mostly intangible, elements of urbanization in the context of China and why they are so important to see as an integral part of the bigger picture. This work also brings those intangible and soft factors to the center of discussion as opposed to having to content with popular headlines that have at least three question or exclamation marks.
Therefore, before design competition method is abandoned or less preferred due to high level of exploitation and having been false utilized, the unique opportunity that design competitions have offered to both individuals and public must be preserved.
Believing deeply the promises of design competition method, this work becomes very important to write especially for the reasons that there is no single institutional binding which can make the process just, and even the most reliable resources about architectural design competitions have been unresponsive to fairness problem and far from being suggestive, yet mostly focuses on the documentation of the practices for archives.
For above reasons, this work has been developed for those who have involved or likely to involve in architectural design competitions to portray how architectural design competition should be conducted, had the fairness is the priority of the business as it should.
As I dived into the topic and did my research on building obsolescence in China, surprisingly, the question has always been the same, sometimes with subtle differences to the original: “How will slowing China cope with rapidly aging buildings?” After reading and listening to prominent texts and figures it was not hard to point out what is obvious. All intellectual thoughts given to the issue has poured into one container and all facts about China’s growth into another, there was no mix. Then I wondered, “How come we extract an answer if we fail to ask right questions?”
This paper explores the underlying, mostly intangible, elements of urbanization in the context of China and why they are so important to see as an integral part of the bigger picture. This work also brings those intangible and soft factors to the center of discussion as opposed to having to content with popular headlines that have at least three question or exclamation marks.
Therefore, before design competition method is abandoned or less preferred due to high level of exploitation and having been false utilized, the unique opportunity that design competitions have offered to both individuals and public must be preserved.
Believing deeply the promises of design competition method, this work becomes very important to write especially for the reasons that there is no single institutional binding which can make the process just, and even the most reliable resources about architectural design competitions have been unresponsive to fairness problem and far from being suggestive, yet mostly focuses on the documentation of the practices for archives.
For above reasons, this work has been developed for those who have involved or likely to involve in architectural design competitions to portray how architectural design competition should be conducted, had the fairness is the priority of the business as it should.