How do architects deal with the design process? What inspires them? Design Techniques looks at different approaches to the creative moment. The architects themselves reveal their modus operandi, explain how they tackle the project and discuss motivation, devices, influences, justifications, effects and the origins of their design techniques.

a+t magazine and Harvard GSD initiate the SOLID series, Harvard Symposia on Architecture. Design Techniques is the first volume in the series. Faculty, critics and theorists, and students discuss the different approaches contributing personal experiences, working practices, and opportunities encountered in the field of design.

Contents

IÑAKI ÁBALOS
On design techniques 

TOM EMERSON / 6a architects
Design is only re-design 

KERSTEN GEERS / Office KGDVS
False friends 

JEANNETTE KUO / Karamuk * Kuo Architects
Constructing logics 

FLORIAN IDENBURG / SO - IL
To be determined 

SHARON JOHNSTON & MARK LEE
Approximation 

ANNE LACATON and JEAN PHILIPPE VASSAL
The city from and by housing 

IÑAKI ÁBALOS, RENATA SENTKIEWICZ
Dualisms and a conversation with Enrique Walker 
 
CAMILO RESTREPO / AGENdA
Rolling Intersections 

LOLA SHEPPARD and MASON WHITE / LATERAL OFFICE
Undisciplined 

MARÍA LANGARITA and VÍCTOR NAVARRO
Bust and Pelt 

MOMOYO KAIJIMA / ATELIER BOW-WOW
Graphic: from diagram to public drawing 

CRISTINA DÍAZ MORENO & EFRÉN Gª GRINDA /AMID.cero9
In an increasingly familiar world 

PHILIPPE RAHM
Spectrum, background and gradation as design techniques

ENRIQUE WALKER
How do you design? 

ANTOINE PICON
Are you talking about techniques....? 

SÍLVIA BENEDITO
Téchne and modus operandi 

Conversation: Sharing the hot-wire cutter 
Conversation: Are we talking about design...? 
Conversation: Originality and intuition 

WESLEY HO
Air Frontier

COLLIN GARDNER
Non-authorship 

ANNE LIU
Embodied cognition 

KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO
A technique of the self 

BIOGRAPHIES