Author / Onah Jung
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Design should be measured
According to the McKinsey Consulting Design Index report
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The Relationship between Architects and Engineers
Left and Right Brain arguments and expectations
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What is Evidence Based Design (EBD)?
Business lesson from my boiler contractor: Evidence is better than Value
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What would the new restaurant design be like in the post pandemic time?
Weekend dining out has been one of the biggest things I miss from pre-pandemic days. I miss many things about the dining out experience; the anticipation of getting together with friends, trying new dishes, and not having to cook!. As the city slowly allows the restaurants to open, I find myself focussing more on restaurant settings than the menus when…
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What does confidence has to do with Design?
I had an interesting conversation with an architect colleague of mine last year. It was during one of those zoom meetings where we were discussing different projects our offices were working on at the time, and also the difficulties from the pandemic. I don’t remember how we started the conversation about design and designers, but the gist of her…
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Remembering old phone call I had with a client
In the age of COVID-19, ALL of us are going through unfamiliar and stressful times…whether lining up to get into the grocery store, trying to avoid a person while pretending that we are not, getting a doctor’s appointment through a video call (ok that was a positive one)…etc. There have been many weird and unfamiliar things/acts we had to learn…
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Top 3 questions from architecture school candidates
Every year in the fall, I reconnect with the school where I received an Architecture education through emails. Those emails describe the students I would interview as part of the admission process for applying to the architecture program at Cornell University. After the move back from New York City years ago, and wanting to reconnect with my…
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Design collaboration in the age of online meetings
I hate meetings. I suppose I am not unique in expressing the negative (but very true) sentiment. My reasons for hating these “necessary evils” in my work are the same as everyone else’s; time-consuming activities that seem to drag on and not produce clear outcomes at the end. However, those meetings continue in the…
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What does “affordable” mean in housing?
There have been many words that all of us got accustomed to hearing as well as using during the pandemic: resilient, accessible, inclusive, sustainable, affordable. Although these words give us the feeling of warm and happy thoughts about ourselves and others, they are not explicit in the “how” part. We use these words easily without how…
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Why energy efficiency houses have to be unattractive?
There is the famous phrase we designers know well: Form vs. Function It is never the Form AND Function, but they are always in an adversarial relationship with the VS. I see this adversary relationship play well in the architecture field, especially when it comes to aesthetics in design. It is given that one (form) cannot…
