Redesigning Attitudes

Hanif Kara

Excerpt of Interdisciplinary Design: New Lessons from Architecture and Engineering by Hanif Kara and Andreas Georgoulias, published by Actar Publishers and Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Design is a visual discipline, and so innovation in design comes from visual stimuli; it is in the visual, rather than the digital or theoretical that design engineering lies. Though the emphasis of the course is on design and engineering, the starting point is always in architecture and the aesthetic pleasure of the project.

In the struggle for reinvention, all disciplines have tended to “peek” into each other’s work during shrinking markets or major changes in the economic order (e.g., the industrial revolution), redrawing disciplinary boundaries as a means of survival.

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