Having had some experience with designers (and one particularly interesting
experience---one degree of separation from a FLW-trained architect), I can say
with some degree of confidence that reality, when conflicting with design, will
lose almost every time. Designers think of themselves as artists, and nothing
should interfere with the expression of their art, even if it means computer
monitors facing a window wall, or a music hall with the acoustics of a WWI
battlefield. (Yes, I am using a very broad brush here and I know there are
exceptions. It's just that my path seldom crosses the exceptions;.)
--Bob
On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> As one of the 'in' crowd I was given a preview of a large and expensive (by
> their standards) new teaching block. Very nice. I walked in to the computer-
> dedicated computer room, to see that EVERY computer monitor had its
> screen facing the window wall of the room, Thus, every monitor would be
> acting like a mirror to the outside world, and practically impossible to use.
> of
> course they had to shut out the daylight, using curtains.
>
> The designers had been told of this in advance, apparently, but chose to
> ignore the advice ...
>
> Pun crosses my mind ... it was glaringly obvious :-)
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