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By Dan Klyn from#IXDAPortland – January 28, 2014IS IT USABLE YET?

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EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE

PLACES MADE FROM INFORMATION

PLACES MADE FROM INFORMATION

Wurman

Vitruvius

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— Karsten Harries

interpreting the world as a meaningful order in which the individual can find his place in the midst of nature and in the midst of a community.

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I < We

Building < Architecture

Space < Place

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Fremont Bridge, 1973

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a) firmitatis FirmnessStrength

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b) utilitatis CommodityUtility

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c) venustatisDelightBeauty

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firmatatis utilitatis venustatis

Wright

B + C

Johnson

A + C = B

Gropius

A + B = C

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By Dan Klyn from

IS IT USABLE YET?

By Dan Klyn from

IS IT A PLACE YET?

for use

places made of information

by people

FirmnessCommodity

Delight

good places = good balance:

Off you go…1. Ask: “is this a place yet?”2. Instantiate the triad.

What we mean by strength, utility and beauty. For the project as a whole. And from your disciplinary lens.

3. Balance the equation. Make things be good.

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