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To a Curator of Beautiful and Healthy Lives: A Note to Myself
Author(s) -
Kang DaeWha
Publication year - 2015
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.1940
Subject(s) - design thinking , sociology , work (physics) , aesthetics , visual arts , management , environmental ethics , art , engineering , philosophy , mechanical engineering , economics
How might architectural thinking and processes shift over the next 35 years? How might the architect's role be redefined with shifting ethical values? Could the architect be viewed as less of a design professional and more of a curator engaged in the development of healthy holistic environments, catering for all of society's needs? DaeWha Kang , an architect from 2050, writes to his earlier self, critiquing the work that he undertook in independent practice and as a design director at Zaha Hadid Architects in the mid‐2010s. He describes how his design methodologies have evolved in the intervening years.