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Monthly archives for April, 2012

Performance, Form and Flow

In his “10 Books on Architecture” in the First Century A.D., the Roman architect Vitruvius gave us the formula for good architecture – “Firmness, Commodity, and Delight” – a formula still respected today, it has served us well.  But I’d like to humbly propose a new formula for our complex buildings of the 21st century, especially our […]

At The Intersection

This was originally published as a “Guest Blog Post” at www.InterOPERANT.com on April 9, 2012 Posted by Ron Smith, President/CEO, design at the intersection, LLC I just watched a wonderful video about an innovative Operating Suite at Bruges Saint John General Hospital that uses an “open theater landscape” concept.  In the intro to the video, […]