Rethinking Flexibility
Taking a tailored specificity approach to design
Sponsored by Architectural Record | Presented by Joshua Ramus
Webinar On-Demand
Contemporary design problems such as restrained budgets have combined with a design approach influenced by Modernist architecture ideas of flexibility that has put handcuffs on the designer. The result is sterile blank slate that is meant to support any human activity. Joshua Ramus argues that taking a tailored specificity approach to design work can result in greater flexibility and meets contemporary design issues including improved resiliency, sustainability, and enriched occupant experience.
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Joshua Ramus is founding principal of REX, an internationally acclaimed architecture and design firm based in New York City. Believing architecture should actively empower its users and communities—not simply be a representational art—REX challenges and advances building paradigms and promotes the agency of architecture. REX aspires to produce inventive designs so functionally specific that they offer inspiring aesthetic experiences. |
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Architectural Record’s 2023 Innovation Conference
Originally published in October 2023
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Discuss how modernist design approaches have resulted in less flexible design that decreases the occupant experience.
- Describe how discrete approaches to program requirements can result in greater flexibility in performing arts buildings.
- Look at new technologies that make flexible design approaches more easily achievable.
- Address acoustical issues in buildings with multiple and varied acoustical requirements.
