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All the designers I've worked with have all put beauty over function. That's just who they are. I suspect that if they emphasized function their career would ha
by WheelsAtLarge 7y ago
All the designers I've worked with have all put beauty over function. That's just who they are. I suspect that if they emphasized function their career would have been greatly impacted towards the negative.
One big project that comes to mind is The Getty Museum in Los Angeles -at a billion dollar cost. The architecture is beautiful but it lacks function. Getting around the museum as a visitor is like entering a mase. I'm sure you could not convince the architect that he should have changed it. I don't have the know how to know if it could have been designed with an emphasis towards function. But I do know that it's beautiful so in my mind, the architect was a genius.
Ives should get the same consideration.
- SirLuxuryYacht 7y agoI have never been to the Getty, but from my experience going to plenty of other museums it has always seemed like getting "lost" was the whole point. You can remove yourself from the real world for a bit and have total focus on the exhibition. Designers should tend to put emphasis on beauty, otherwise they would just be called engineers. I'm not a designer either, but I think the secret sauce is convincing users (of hardware, software, no matter) that form followed function. Ive is most certainly a designer so the changes he made, e.g. removing ports, were driven by aesthetic rather than function. Without the checks and balances named Steve Jobs these were allowed to ship, and is a reason why Apple is getting a bad rap.
- skohan 7y agoThe Guggenheim in New York is another example of this. I've heard it told that the reason the bathrooms are all tucked away under stairwells and in other awkward places is because their inclusion at all was a detail the architect originally overlooked.