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Richard Meier & Partners Architects: Limitations Are An Opportunity :: From The 99 Percent
Posted by on Monday, February 7th, 2011
Image: Richard Meier & Partners Architect's proposed design for the US Embassy in London.
Working within limitations seems to be par for the course in architecture. How do you approach those constraints? Does it become frustrating?
It absolutely becomes frustrating but it’s also part of the creative process. Without the limitations, you wouldn’t come up with creative solutions. And architecture is by definition is about restrictions: The site is so big, you can only build this tall, and if you want to do something different you have to go through a whole series of steps through the planning process and the approval process.
So each one of these things, you have to look at not so much as a restriction but as an opportunity. If you see it as an opportunity you can come up with a creative solution. But that’s, like, everyday. [laughs] Oh, another opportunity!
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