{"id":26808,"date":"2020-06-30T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=26808"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:12:50","slug":"ihbc-signpost-some-tips-from-muf-on-how-not-to-be-a-starchitect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=26808","title":{"rendered":"IHBC signpost: Some tips from MUF on how not to be a starchitect!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"headerWrapper\">\n<header id=\"header\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<h3 id=\"sqs-social\" class=\"social-links sqs-svg-icon--list\" data-content-field=\"connected-accounts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26809\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ReadingDesign_300620.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" \/>Reading Design has relayed some tips on how not to be a Starchitect.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"pageWrapper\">\n<section id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"mainContent\" role=\"main\" data-content-field=\"main-content\">\n<div id=\"page-5eda09b3c690c4635f117a62\" class=\"sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12\" data-type=\"page\" data-updated-on=\"1591353128602\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1593529689137_108\" class=\"row sqs-row\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1593529689137_107\" class=\"col sqs-col-12 span-12\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1593529689137_106\" class=\"row sqs-row\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1593529689137_105\" class=\"col sqs-col-8 span-8\">\n<div id=\"block-dd78c7cdbe5a851e4e32\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p>Reading Design relays advice from Liza Fior, Katherine Clarke, muf:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1591347687310_36407\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p class=\"\">Produce projects which are deliberately ambiguous as to where they stop and start<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Expand definitions of the client, site and brief by adding unsolicited research into every project<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Produce feasibility studies where the recommendation is, you don&#8217;t need a building<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Give equal status to processes and objects<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Design for a ground plane at least 4 metres thick<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Design in a simultaneously pragmatic and endlessly ambitious way in the same project<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Foreground the most fragile in any situation on the basis that taking care of that will address other requirements, e.g. asking a museum to imagine treating people with the same care and precision as objects<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Design projects deliberately rich in visual association \u2013 open to others\u2019 interpretation as to \u201cwhere it\u2019s coming from\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Implicate yourselves in order to wedge open the door for agendas beyond the brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Be aware of what \u201cworking with a community\u201d means: they are not a material, they are people, if they work, pay them<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Despite contractual impediments, always try to have a productive and creative relationship with the person who is actually building the project<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pay at least a bit of attention to where things come from and don\u2019t mindlessly support unjust supply chains<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Offer very flexible working to staff.<\/p>\n<h3>With thanks to muf.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingdesign.org\/how-not-to-be-a-starchitect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Design has relayed some tips on how not to be a 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