On 3/7/04 9:31 AM, "John Callan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I don't know whether CADD is good for designing new buildings or not,
> but it surely is good for studying old ones.

I think that any tool is only as good as the hand that guides it. I also
think that CADD can be a crutch for those who do not have the capacity to
think in 3D. Sure you can make a building in CADD, but designing the
experience of a building is a very different thing. You speak eloquently of
the kinetic of a building's evolution over 60 years of the hand of man;
there is also the kinetic of a building over the 30 seconds that you move
through a space defined by the building. Really good spaces extend that 30
seconds to an experiential mindset ranging from minutes to the ultimate:

A lifetime.

Dan

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