Comments on: Architects would rather be working on smaller projects http://theaestheticelevator.com/2009/12/22/architects-would-rather-be-working-on-smaller-projects/ For a well-considered visual environment Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Small silvery living spaces « The Aesthetic Elevator http://theaestheticelevator.com/2009/12/22/architects-would-rather-be-working-on-smaller-projects/#comment-16357 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:30:06 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/?p=3423#comment-16357 [...] always loved the challenge of designing for small spaces (as do most architects, apparently, smaller than skyscrapers anyway). There’s so much less room for error than in a large space. [...]

]]> By: corbusier http://theaestheticelevator.com/2009/12/22/architects-would-rather-be-working-on-smaller-projects/#comment-14287 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:44:01 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/?p=3423#comment-14287 Thanks for your comments on my recent post. Just like you when I was an architecture student, it was the small projects that really got our attention and admiration. Never in any design studio were we directed to design a large building or structure- just little houses, galleries, interpretive centers and small multi-family housing projects. We never studied the problem of skyscrapers, stadiums, airports or convention halls. I think it partly has to do with our professors having more professional experience with the small (few of them come straight out of SOM to teach full time. Most of them come from a milieu where the workload is small enough for them to have the time to teach).

And yet, when we get out of school, a number of us will work for offices that will only do big projects as sustainable business model. And the truth is, we will have to do this in order to survive professionally, in spite of being drawn to small projects.

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