AKDA is a multi-disciplinary design studio with expertise in handling architecture,interiors, furniture & products.
Buildings need to embody the Vitruvian trio - firmness, utility, delight (fermetas-utilitas -venustas). You can mess up on delight once in a while and get away with it, but not with firmness. That stuff is non-negotiable. It's what we lose sleep over, where our expertise counts.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
The design and construction of buildings is a huge responsibility. Some where out there is an obscure statistic about the number of lives saved by earthquake codes designed by building engineers. It's literally in the hundreds of millions.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
It's the knowing that bakers have when baking their fifty thousandth loaf of bread. You just, sort of know what's going to happen.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
And having made mistakes and suffered the consequences, and thinking you figured it out, and then making some more mistakes, and after what seems forever, you just know.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
The source of that knowledge is having encountered the same problem over and over again - in multiple ways, in multiple places, in different weather, with different teams, etc.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
For anyone deep enough in their profession, there is a kind of knowledge that you know intimately. It is not a list of methods, or a sense about what is trending or what something costs. It is innate, like knowing your own name.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
Grab a cup of coffee. In the shadow of Pallonji Mistry's death, a giant amongst those of us who construct buildings for love and for a living, I want to talk to you about the value of knowledge.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
