Design doesn’t happen within a vacuum and an understanding of what has come before (and concurrently) can (and should) inform and explain design thoughts and actions. Each design will look to and document instances that may be used as examples in dealing with issues we are currently facing.

The concept of construction is endowed with a sense of historical and technical inevitability, standard practices. Conceived as a methodological synthesis of concept, material, and technique, it encompasses not only the material and technical organizational of elements in the construction process, but also the intellectual organization of elements with the design process.