> I want architecture students to see that the flexible, modular, all-purpose and all-choices box of a room isn’t always what’s called for. It sounds right — su

> I want architecture students to see that the flexible, modular, all-purpose and all-choices box of a room isn’t always what’s called for. It sounds right — surely your client wants a space that could be anything you need it to be — but unprogrammed space is often tractionless, characterless. I fully agree, the spaces we visit have to be opinionated and we can self-select on if we want to visit, physical or otherwise. I'd wager anything meaningful involves some subconscious design biases, there's no reason why it wouldn't make more sense to make them explicit - You're never going to capture the portion of audience who would be offended by the rules by not having them, as they're already self-selecting the spaces that have rules tailored for them!