Real Life Architecture
Now when you read the title you might think I am going to provide wonderful examples of architecture already built all over the world. That is not the case.
I recently moved into a house built 14 years ago. It wasn’t designed for Naples or to be the Street of Dreams winner. However, it’s still a great house. Even though all the rooms are normal square rooms, it’s still a great house. Even though you can tell that the sheet rock is far from perfectly flat, even thought my room is dark due to just one window in a dormer, even though the ceiling is low in the upstairs rooms, it is still a great house. It’s a great house because it feels great. When you look at amazing architectural feats, (see Dubai), regardless of how they look, one has to wonder how one will feel in that space. In searching house plans across the internet and looking at the great buildings of the world, I discover that designers, most of the time, look at what their clients say they want in terms of size, their vision, to impress people. But when it comes to living in the space, it doesn’t feel right. Most buildings fail and a lot of homes fail to make an owner feel good.
This is my challenge to the architecture world. When we design spaces for people, let us give them the square footage and the features and all the other architecture masterpieces. But let us not forget that these spaces are places where people live parts or all of their lives. So let us give them the feel that should go with all those cool features.