AIA Intl Taipei - How Architect Can Function In The Public Realm, The Distance Between The Architect And The User Of Architecture

When: Tuesday 22 February 2022 @ 06:00 (Eastern US Time)/ 19:00 (Taipei time)

Where: NCREE Building 13F, No. 200, Xinhai Road, Section 3, Taipei/ ONLINE

CES Credits - Estimated 2.0 LU for AIA Members

Speakers:

Jou Min Lin, AIA

Description

If you are designing public buildings ranging from schools, social housing, to art galleries and museums; in the process, the opposite party of your dialogue and communication will be the undertaker of the agency, not the “building user”.

If you design architecture goods such as a residential project for sale or an office for rent; in the process, the opposite party of your dialogue and communication will be the sales company, not the “building user”.

If, from the first day of work to the completion of the building, the distance between an “architectural designer” and the “user of the building” is so “unreachable”, then how to ensure the “architectural design work” will be a suitable finished product?

I, along with many colleagues, have spent my entire life in architectural design, just like Sisyphus in Greek mythology, pushing boulders up the mountain again and again!

I am well aware that this kind of work with “building users” so “out of reach” is likely to be an endless and possibly futile way of working; in terms of “professional achievement in architecture”. This should not be the way “architectural designers” would like to function.

Shifting between thoughts, if the distance with the “building user” is so “out of reach”, it will not be the working method that the “architectural designer” is willing to settle on. I think, together with the people you work with, keeping the needs of “architectural users” in mind, and working hard to complete good architectural projects, that is the salvation of the best “architectural designers”!