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WHAT GOOD MEANSUX London
Dan Klyn
CERTAINTY
Cass GilbertDetroit Public Library 1865
PIXEL-PERFECTWhat good means:
MEDIUMISMTactic:
BETTERTactic:
BAD
Denise Scott BrownLearning From Las Vegas1972
ALMOST ALLRIGHT
What good means:
DO IT DEADPANTactic:
MAKE THE COMPLEX CLEAR
What good means:
The classic pervasive seduction to designers is finding a solutioninstead of the truth
An architect should not take the program and simply give it to the client as though he were filling a doctor's prescription
DEEPHUMAN AGREEMENT
What good means:
GO BACKWARD FROM THE PROBLEM
Tactic:
Louis KahnKimbell Museum1972
Louis KahnSalk Institute1965
VERY GOOD ISLESS THAN
GOOD
Louis Kahn
Ask brick what it wants
the ordinary way
5
a single, solid, objective basis for the difference between good and bad
WHOLENESS • BEAUTY • LIFE
What good means:
PLAY ALONGTactic:
Something within space and matter can be awoken by the presence of the proper configurations
photo by Dan Klyn
Christopher AlexanderEishin School1986
MAKE THE “CLEAR”COMPLEX
Tactic:
Wes AndersonRushmore1998
Architect(s) UnknownFort Mason1912
PRINCIPLES
Make The Complex Clear
Go Backward From The Problem
VERY GOOD IS LESS THAN GOOD
Wholenessbeautylife
Make The “Clear” Complex
for making things be good
150X/DAY40HRS/MO
PRIMARY SOURCES
What would it be liketo live in a mental worldwhere one’s reasons for making something functionallyand one’s reasons for making something a certain shape, or in a certain ornamental way are actually coming from precisely the same place in you?
PROMISE
@undrstndnghttp://understandinggroup.com
@danklyn
http://iainstitute.org
Works CitedPortrait of John Calvin (1509-64) (oil on canvas), Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (c.1488-1576) / The Reformed Church of France, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images
Calvin, J. (1960). Institutes of the Christian Religion. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
University of Detroit Public Library Library photo by Meghan Nicholas http://studi-osnap.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/detroit-public-library-engagement-session-wedding-photographer-studiOsnap-001-2.jpg
Photos of 1922 Paris 1st edition of Ulysses owned by the Detroit Public Library from a graduate school project by Dan Klyn in 1995 https://www.flickr.com/photos/76178901@N00/albums/72157635734229943/with/9860661344/ HMS Unicorn photo from Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29103506
Venturi, R., Scott, B. D., & Izenour, S. (1972). Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Venturi, R., & Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). (2011). Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
Brand, S. (1999). The Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility. New York: Basic Books.
Photo of ordinary storefront by Dan Klyn in Austin, Texas USA
Interview with Richard Saul Wurman by Dirk Kn emeyer (2004) http://www.informationdesign.org/special_wurman/
Photo from the collection of Richard Saul Wurman.
Kahn, L. I., & Ngo, D. (1998). Louis I. Kahn: Conversations With Students. Houston, Texas: Architecture at Rice Publications. Photo from the collection of Richard Saul Wurman.
Wurman, R. S. (1989). Hats. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press for the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Photo by Joel Baldwin for LOOK Magazine, 1971.
Photo by Dan Klyn at Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth TX
Kahn, L. I., & Wurman, R. S. (1986). What Will Be Has Always Been: The Words Of Louis I. Kahn. New York: Access Press.
Ed Burgoyne (2015). Advertising Agency Organization http://adsubculture.com/workflow/2014/12/9/examples-of-advertising-agency-organizational-charts
Christopher Alexander (2007).Empirical Findings. Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp 11-19.
Alexander, C. (1983). The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Alexander, C. (1983). Unpublished Speech Transcript. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design.
El Saturn Research (1975, December 17). Hot Hits Fresh From The Sun [Advertisement]. Ann Arbor Sun.