Finding A Common Method

In Habraken’s “Questions That Will Not Go Away”, I find it particularly inspiring when he talks about constraint as a driving force in design as opposed to a hindrance. Designing to accommodate everyday life is something that can be just as if not more challenging than the buildings deemed “important enough” for an architect to be involved with in the days of old. Particularly, Habraken talks about sharing values and cooperating with other architects and users alike. He mentions setting up core ideas to share amongst each other and compares it to playing music together, and how music has a shared method that we use to produce creative music. Similarly, architects should embrace these challenges when designing for change and permeance. He mentions that the typical studio style of a class can be difficult to embrace this type of methodical design value, and that new ways of teaching should be implemented to learn through exercise and failure and establish these shared values. Do you think this particular philosophy of design would be helpful, and how could we structure the way we learn to accommodate this concept?

Posted on 2/25 and edited on 2/26 because of formatting error