Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.
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Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.
Every country has their problems.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.
Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems.
These are national problems that require national solutions.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.
Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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