Time is Not Money

I proposed that time is the dividing factor between background buildings and foreground ones. The buildings we study, admire, and long to visit are ones that takes years to plan, design, and construct. You need time to think outside the box. Time is necessary to research new ways of thinking or construction. It takes time to go to the community for input. The structures that need to be done in three or six months are the ones that fall into the background. Those can still be constructed in an adequate way, but they won’t be structures we want to visit for the sole purpose of visiting. These won’t inspire us, only protect us. Our society is one that values speed. Perhaps a way that our profession has attempted to combat the speed problem, is by dispersing the design control. So then it isn’t a problem of losing the design integrity, but a solution of allowing for more design within the limited time.