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The Problem of Scale
Author(s) -
Godsell Sean
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1505
Subject(s) - battle , commission , reputation , scale (ratio) , character (mathematics) , engineering , management , law , sociology , political science , history , archaeology , economics , geography , cartography , geometry , mathematics
Abstract Sean Godsell has built an international reputation on designing finely crafted houses in southeast Australia for which he draws all the details by hand. Here he explains how landing the commission for the Design Hub, a new postgraduate design research centre for RMIT in Melbourne, required a shift in scale and also a change in working conditions as he encountered new production processes and levels of regulation. Maintaining the character of the building as something ‘made’ rather than produced was a sustained battle.