Designing from First Principles [Kevin Mark Low's Approach]- Part 2

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This episode explores Kevin Mark Low's approach to design from first principles, focusing on five core elements of his process.

Send us Fan Mail Second episode of a two-part series we dive deep into how architects such as Kevin Mark Low design from first principles. Analysis from literature search shows that Kevin Mark Low has 5 main core elements to his first principles-inspired design process: 1. Primacy of Context Specificities 2. Radical or Critically questioning and identifying problems 3. Details as the Resolver of Relationsips 4. Embracing Imperfection, Time, Ageing and Decay 5. Focus on Small Scale and Tectoni...

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Host: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob

Topics covered

• architecture
• design principles
• contextual design
• imperfection
• small scale architecture

Keywords

• first principles
• architecture
• design process
• context
• imperfection

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