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H ow designers think ? This is a question that brings a boost to our brain and makes us reflect : Firstly, what is design ? And later on, how do we think it terms of it ? Even nowadays we still don't have a specific answer since it gets different meanings by particular groups of people. In our day to day life we may hear sayings like Design is everything ! Design is interdisciplinary ! Design is a process ! As a matter of fact they all contain a true meaning. Design is everything, it is found in different disciplines, as a high professional or everyday activity, but always regarded as a process and not only an end product. Design has always been connected with our contemporary intellectual endeavour including art, science and philosophy. The designers of today can no longer be trained to follow a set of procedures, since the world rate changes day after day. But they are trained to always try creating something that could bring a difference, by not paying much attention only to...

S eating arrangements : an elementary lecture in functional planning ! "Main idea behind every space is to go to the essence of the activity". This expression helps us understand the real importance of space and form. To just define and later on design a space is not enough to give to it an approach with its activity. The architect must understand the essence, aim, use of the area to later on connect it with its context. And to achieve this more than just an application of knowledge is required, you must put in use culture, philosophical and psychological knowledge, all of which make architecture a humane and scientific inquiry. However, even though humanity has an important role in architecture itself, and "form follows function" in modern times functionalism is going far away from it. An elementary planning problem is the arrangement of the seating. In order to understand that there is no stereotype , but need to recognize the essence of what is going on some e...

S olids and Cavities in Architecture ! Observing a building in order to understand it demands a certain visual process, in which every detail it's important and enough in its own. This kind of process is creative, since you try to form a complete image of what you have seen and give to that building a voice of its own. The visual process of observing a building is much more alike with the building process itself. The architect firstly decides on the main structure of the building and then continues to add details on it. His aim is to give form to the materials he works with. But still, this doesn't have to be limited only in working with Solid form, one could let the imagination work with the Cavities as well. Cavity is the clearly defined space enclosed within the outer walls that represents the limited architecturally formed space. In other words the solid is the container and cavity the contained. Due to this approach even the architects are grouped in Solid-minded and Cavi...