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zenden hotel and swim club

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Surface Architects won the competition to create within the Birkbeck College the permanent home of the Film & Visual Media Research Center.

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“The magic of design” and the logic of design are inextricably related, for the seemingly magical freedom in the design process is exercised only in the presence of logical constraints.
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We speak of the miracle of flight, but we can fly because such designers as the Wright Brothers, and Paul McCready learned something about aerodynamics and the behavior of materials in a material world.
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The standard constraints in professional design include deadline, budget, distribution, materials, production processes, and corporate politics. At any given time, we may resent any one of them. If only they didn’t need it by Thursday… If only the budget would allow more color… If only it could be produced at lower temperatures… If only they didn’t have to fit into containers… If only there wasn’t so much explanatory copy… If only it didn’t have to be approved by a committee.

Those constraints are what the designer pushes against to shape the project. Designers need to know where the stops are, then figure out how to work within and through them elegantly.   

-Ralph Caplan, Cracking the Whip

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nicholas matheus

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…in the chair you designed:

Eero Saarinen in his Womb Chair. Via.

Finn Juhl in his Chieftains Chair. Via.

Marcel Breuer in his B3/Wassily Chair. Via.

Poul Kjærholm in his PK24 Chaise Lounge along with his text. Via.

Mies van der Rohe in his Cantilever Cane Chair. Via.

Hans Wegner in his CH24 Wishbone Chair. Via.

Charles Eames in his Molded Plastic Chair. Via.