The Comma really is everything.
Katherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph of Design, Bitches spoke with us about their work and design aesthetic. As a young almost-professional beginning my career, their work is striking, original, and similar to my design philosophy in terms of how I initiate process. The ideas that architecture is adaptable and derived from popular culture of the “everyday” make so much sense as design strategies. The concepts of accessibility to broad audiences, connecting us to everyday life and minute experiences, and generally engaging the public with their environment in a marriage of beauty and function were all central to their work and speak volumes of how philosophically they integrate pop culture and architecture in daily life.
“Without the comma, design is purely an adjective. Design becomes an address-- a challenge.”
They also brought up the idea of ego in design and how by challenging the constraints of architecture, they return the focus to design rather than the authors themselves. What I found most invigorating about their work was the use of layering, unique materials, colors, and textures, especially in their work from LA. Their work becomes a symbol of adaptation-- of taking the malleable urban context and shifting it playfully into an artful and engaging landscape, full of narrative and nature in context. Their work centers on perceptual play and connection to the human scale. Neon, as an element of design, both invoked nostalgia and modernized the structures they presented in highly visual ways. It is my hope that as I continue in this profession, I may find a way to use some of these playful elements in designing parks or other public spaces that connect largely to the human scale.
Other useful thoughts included:
“The facade is a window to a street-- the existing facade can be a blank canvas but also a window the the past. Doors and windows are thresholds.”
“The path is not always linear.”
On the idea of a “neighborhood haunt”-- “We are interested creating something that becomes part of daily existence.”
Katherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph of Design, Bitches spoke with us about their work and design aesthetic. As a young almost-professional beginning my career, their work is striking, original, and similar to my design philosophy in terms of how I initiate process. The ideas that architecture is adaptable and derived from popular culture of the “everyday” make so much sense as design strategies. The concepts of accessibility to broad audiences, connecting us to everyday life and minute experiences, and generally engaging the public with their environment in a marriage of beauty and function were all central to their work and speak volumes of how philosophically they integrate pop culture and architecture in daily life.
“Without the comma, design is purely an adjective. Design becomes an address-- a challenge.”
They also brought up the idea of ego in design and how by challenging the constraints of architecture, they return the focus to design rather than the authors themselves. What I found most invigorating about their work was the use of layering, unique materials, colors, and textures, especially in their work from LA. Their work becomes a symbol of adaptation-- of taking the malleable urban context and shifting it playfully into an artful and engaging landscape, full of narrative and nature in context. Their work centers on perceptual play and connection to the human scale. Neon, as an element of design, both invoked nostalgia and modernized the structures they presented in highly visual ways. It is my hope that as I continue in this profession, I may find a way to use some of these playful elements in designing parks or other public spaces that connect largely to the human scale.
Other useful thoughts included:
“The facade is a window to a street-- the existing facade can be a blank canvas but also a window the the past. Doors and windows are thresholds.”
“The path is not always linear.”
On the idea of a “neighborhood haunt”-- “We are interested creating something that becomes part of daily existence.”
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