[The posts below were selected as an excellent examples of responses to blog assignment 1]
from Ben Pexton:
Re-usable shopping bags are an important example of design, not only as an alternative to environmentally harmful plastic shopping bags, but as a widely used and available design item that reflects growing change in design thought. Change from cheaply produced, disposable items to those with an emphasis on re-usability. While Dieter Rams stated “good design is concerned with the environment” it is only now, as we discover the full effects of humans on the environment, that this idea takes on far more importance for designers.
from Philip Belesky:
from Philip Belesky:
Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette
Images from Cinegramme: Folie le Parc de La Villette (1989 Princeton Architectural Press)
This design is important as it reconsiders the conventional relationships between landscape, architecture, and urbanism. It demonstrates that architecture can operate at an urban scale without resorting to the traditional rules of composition, and that architecture finds its praxis in events, as much as space and form.
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