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    建筑师生存之道- venturing into new markets

    6.4.2009. AIA/LA 在成立了design committee后组织了第二次DESIGN DIALOGUES,地点在位于Santa Monica的Gensler公司,话题围绕建筑师如何进入新市场。主持人是UCLA建筑系主任Abe,嘉宾比较有代表性,选了不同规模和类型的公司,有大企业的Gensler 设计主管Li Wen,刚起步小企业的夫妻档Touraine + Richmond Architects,Starchitect小作坊的Neil Denari。
    夫妻档首先分享了他们的辛酸历程,也提到发达国家项目竞争激烈和中国中东市场巨大blablabla。。。他们力图通过对加州公园系统和组织机构的研究开拓自己的专业领域。做了一个很有趣的比喻,放诱饵,等动物们来吃(然后吃他们)。相比之下,Gensler是打猎式的,通过否定MTA交通设计中现存的某些问题,以其自身的设计理念提出新的解决办法,Gensler的优缺都集于企业的“大”,所以可以而且必须比较主动的去争取机会;Neil比较坚持,不像夫妻档通过改变自己的位置,调整自己的策略来适应市场,也不像Gensler的强大阵容面面俱到,他要选则合适的项目来使自己处于有利地位,并设想到十年后要跟今天仍不断进步的对手较量,野心和策略兼备,在中国出书,继续探讨自己品牌signature的独特性和优势。值得一提的是,他在HL23 (@NYC highland park)项目中通过引进加拿大和中国的部件降低造价来发挥建筑师的协调优势,同时展示了他在此项目中对Metal panel Fabrication,对大量形状和Fritted图案各异的大落地玻璃的中国建造的探索。
    这些建筑师,无论成功与否,为进入新市场,都大胆地尝试,而且一直坚持,实践着。 
     
    Note:Niche,venture,out of the Box,Archinect上关于Upstarts系列专题的引言:The one thing you will not find in school--or even on Architecture Registration Exams--is a course on how to get work, yet it is one of the most basic needs of any design practice. In fact, if you don't have an equal ability to experiment in getting work as you do in doing work you would be fortunate to make it past the first five years.
     

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    Zhiwei Liaowrote:
    建筑师没有垄断,但有倾向于专项设计,Touraine + Richmond Architects就是寻求这样的出路,Abe在讨论上提到像Jan Edler,在Kunsthaus Graz项目编程设计Aimated Facade,为自己找到了一个niche,能找到项目,能赚钱。。。像懂Maya Rhino编程参数建模的,也把技术分包出来了。
    June 5
    Zheng Tanwrote:
    建筑师无法象医生、律师那样形成行业垄断,那样工作估计都会被外包了,只能多干活,少拿钱。
    June 5

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