Writing / Tamer Tageldin
By design.
By design.
Good architecture should feel inevitable, but never accidental.
Its openness has a reason. Its hierarchy has a reason. Its relationship to light, movement, privacy, context and structure has a reason. This does not mean every outcome is predetermined. Design evolves through discovery, constraint and change. But there is a difference between evolution and accumulation. A project should not simply become the consequence of everything that happened to it. Intent gives change direction. It creates a line of reasoning between the first idea and the final building.
The strongest architecture is not the architecture that changed the least. It is the architecture where you can still understand why it became what it became.
