Scarcity

I was personally drawn to the lecture on Scarcity in Architecture and the post-recession movement. While the movement believed in the efficiency of spaces, materials and project costs they also opposed the ides of Starchitects and their limitless budget projects. I think a lot can be learned from this idea of scarcity and how we as architects address costs in the project process. I believe it is this special knowledge that the core of the scarcity movement can be found. By this I mean Architects address building orientation, surrounding context, and materiality in order to provide the best, most efficient solution, regardless of the project size or budget. Going off of this point, I agree with Hills assessment that budgets and costs should be looked at as “opportunities rather than obstacles”. All architectural projects will contain specific and unique parameters and it is the architect’s role to navigate these issues.