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Reinventing – the effect of compromise in the design
Tadeusz Pietrzkiewicz
Source: Publicspace re/in/venting, ed. B. Gibała-Kaceka, Krakow, 2018
Abstract
Re-in-venting, understood as a rethink of new architectural projects, is provoked by what I refer to as errors coming as a consequence of compromise. These errors are due to the following reasons: transience, loss of universal values and the frequent designers’ incongruity with their own beliefs. The error of transience consists in that designers ignore this phenomenon. It manifests itself in the designers’ insufficient taking into account the importance of variability of functions and the impact of the pace of civilization changes on spatial conditions. The above mentioned tendencies lead to a rift between architecture and its time. The second error is compromise that the universal value system is subject to. This error is provoked by post-modern individualism. In this age of post-modernity, transience and departure are impossible to explain and how difficult to accept. The lack of stable values also creates serious ethical obstacles to space design. It is difficult for us to distinguish what is good from what evil brings. Legal norms are created which presuppose dishonesty. The Public Procurement Law is a bizarre compromise between people (designer, employer, contractor), the essence of design in space and the law itself.
As part of this compromise, the designer has been deprived of the right to freely form creative project teams, freely choose materials and equipment. As a result of these assumptions architecture is subject to a process of dehumanization. The third plane of this compromise is the quite common paradox of disagreement with one’s own beliefs, which often happens to designers. To a large extent, we depart from our own ideas. I mean new currents or architectural ideas that (as designers) we see, admire, co-author but, for various reasons, we abstain from their implementation.
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architektura ; architektura wnętrz ; projektowanie ; teoria projektowania ; etyka projektowania architecture ; interior architecture ; designing ; design theory ; design ethics
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