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Designing an iconic structure for a culture is a challenging process that most architects rarely experience. The architecture firm Snohetta, Craig Dykers and Kjetil Thorsen, has had this type of opportunity twice, and in both are charged with designing structures that reflect and almost symbolized each culture.
SNĂ˜HETTA: CRAIG DYKERS
CAF Lecture Series
re f l e c t i o n b y
JARED MOORE M.Arch (‘12)
For the majority of architects a design project usually consists of just a few client groups. These groups stem from high level executives to basic office staff, and even to the general public in the surrounding area of the project site. Though these groups may have different views on how the project should look and function they usually all tend to share some common ground on the overall goals for the project. I would argue that this common ground comes from the fact that the majority of the clients groups are all internal to the main client. For example, when designing the expansion for Lee hall the architects dealt with