Hi, I’m Doug Pat. This is the How to Architect Anything series, Part one. Architecture is invention.
According to my Apple dictionary, being an architect implies one of two things. One, a person who designs buildings and in many cases supervises or observes that instruction and two, a person responsible for inventing or realizing a particular idea or project. It’s in the second definition that I want to concern ourselves with for this series when viewed through broad lengths.
Architecture is in a way of invention. Invention by definition is a new process or devise, a home, office, library, school, municipal building, or any building for that matter. Clippie consider an invention, it’s an invention by virtue of the hopefully unique utility that it provides and the formatting for any particular client in this highly planned form, it becomes a new device that in many ways will enhance the experience of the user.
I’m a registered architect but I also consider myself an inventor. Now, I haven’t invented anything earth shattering but I have written, illustrated and filed non-provisional and provisional patent applications. I’ve also created products that previously didn’t exist. I turned them into physical private items, tested them, and eventually turned them into real products. Those we’ve taken to market. I’ve done this with and without business purpose over the years. In a way the process or if you will architect it, a little building is similar to the process of creating and taking to market a product. A building and product are both conceptualized then they’re sketched, modeled, and then prototyped.
Buildings are never fully prototyped but parts of them definitely are such as sections of walls or details that they actually both are taken into final drawing form, for manufacture and construction. They’re price had eventually manufactured or built. A building is built, paid for, live in, worked in, and used. A product is developed manufacture, goes to market, gets purchased and is used. Hopefully both are successful and lead to more work for their creator. So architecture is invention. And that’s one of the reasons it’s so appealing. Taking an invention to market will be the theme of this, how to architect anything series.
We’ll see you next time.
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