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About cspencerrun

5th year architecture student at Carnegie Mellon University

Process Driven Design Pt 2

After doing the process driven design exercise with designing the benches, it occurred to me that there was one thing missing from my process cycle.  In comparing my processes with Halprin’s RSVP cycles, I realized that Resources was equivalent to … Continue reading

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Process Driven Design Excercise

Waiting at the UC turnaround, I realized that this area should have a bench for people to sit and wait for rides.  This prompted a design exercise, where I wanted to speculate on how to make that area better. For my … Continue reading

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Process Driven Design

Start with a design problem, for example, design your ideal home. Reduce the design process to drawing on a sheet, and aim to document your thoughts as much as possible. Assuming this cycle,  or maybe another cycle that you design such … Continue reading

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Brain Game

Often the way that we think about things influences what we are capable of.  In many ways, learning and knowledge come from challenging underlying assumptions.  Only when we realize that we are unconsciously assuming things can we get rid of … Continue reading

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Pecha Kucha presentation

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Halprin on The ‘RSVP’ cylces

halprin,%20rsvp%20cycles This article has been highly useful to me in organizing my thinking about design processes. Enjoy.

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Optimization

I read a discover article recently where the general public was polled concerning current problems in astrophysics.  The average of thier answers tended towards being surprisingly accurate to the thinking of the top scientists.  This begs the quesiton of what … Continue reading

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