The rule is simple: to set up the umbrella in a certain distance so that nobody feels uncomfortable while watching the ocean.

It seems that there is an invisible form that follows individual intention; or in other words,there is a grid without straight lines.

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I watched the Objectified a second time at home. Many things come up to my head and I think I should try to write them out.

Jonathan Ive, who is the senior VP industrial design Apple, once said, I quote

 
You look at things and ask, Why is it like that and not like this? And so in that sense, you are constantly designing.

To be a designer means that you should be able to constantly find things around us that is wrong; that is not comfortable. Nomatter how ordinary the things are. Then start to think ways to improve it.

Karim Rashid, world famous industrial designer from New York, also said, I quote,

Are the things we are doing really making an affect and makeing change?

To be a designer means there is a great responsibility here, that is to make things and to make things better than before. I think that is the reason why designer as a profession exists, otherwise we just follow recipe and cook the same old meal everyday with no improvement what so ever, at the end, we just feed ourselves for the sake of feeding. Designer dispears and human-robot appears, who without thinking doing nothing but repeat. If that happens to every designer, the profession dies.

“我小的时候有个梦想，就是用我的眼睛看这个世界，用我的笔写我的感受，然后找到最适合的声音把它们唱给更多的人听。”—高晓松

或许做建筑的态度也应该是这样的？“建筑可以拯救社会，拯救全人类”的责任还是留给政治化了的建筑师，或者建筑化了的政治家去做吧。做一个明朝的文人才是最奢侈的理想。

i visit ShoP ‘s website for several times now, and one interesting thing is each time i visit the site the flash file will bring you a sentence to you. Many of them r valuable to remember for a long time. images and words below are from ShoP Architects.

Building buildings is better than talking about buildings.

Use technology to build practice, see practice as technology.

Push design, embrace responsibility.

Efficiency and great design are not mutually exclusive.

Make concepts buildable. Make buildings conceptual.

Make the office a lab, a boardroom, a theater, a classroom.

In the classroom be the builder; on the site be the teacher. Be a student in both.

How it’s built doesn’t matter except when it’s the only thing that matters.