Decrypting of the process of Architectural Design : By Ar. Purvi Kakkar
Decryption of the process of Architectural Design ‘For starters of architectural design process, learning how to design is a deeply intimate affair. It requires you to reconsider how you think and unlearns all that you have taken for granted throughout your life’. As a Professor in architecture School , in architectural education much of the time has revolved around answering the intimate question ‘how to design’ . On their first project, students feel like a lost child being asked to find their way back home; They keep looking around for signs indicating that they are on the right track. Each project is a new lesson on the elusive subject known as the ‘ design process ’. To explain what I have learned from my experience, I would like to briefly relate it to the art of storytelling: While describing the process of writing fairy tales, George McDonald argued that there is a set of laws by which a new world begins to exist. According to him this is the armature of creation,
