The week 1 reading, Beyond Architecture (2005), by Sadler, focuses heavily on designing for the future, linking strongly to the theme for this semester, Architecture Fiction. While the article was extremely confusing at times, one key topic was prevelant. Change is inevitable. It is how we, as architects, chose to foster development, and provide infrastructure easily adaptable to changes that will determine the way we live in years to come. By creating flexible spaces, not specialised facilities we can cater for the inevitable change which will occur in the future.
On the contrary though, it is important we still design life into our entities and refrain from designing blank boxes which can house any use. Moving forward, architects will need to find the line between flexibility in buildings and user specific space and be able to design for both.
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