University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 25, 1970
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Architect from Rice University Speaks on Design Approach
The first of a visiting lecture series entitled, "Design Approach," sponsored by the School of Architecture and Urban Design, was held Thursday night in the Big 8 Room of the Kansas Union. The speaker was Paul Kennon of Rice University.
Kennon presented an "analytical stripping" of the process of design. He said designers must
"Let the project design itself, don't let the design get in the way."
strive to understand life through life experiences and realize the expressions of these experiences.
"A designer must be very happy with and dedicated to his work," Kennon said. "This means that he must have very few close personal relationships and good health so that he may devote the majority of his energies to his work."
KENNON stressed that the designer must have the ability to be accurate, honest, respond to emotion, open-minded, think and act, project with empathy, perceive and be an activist.
"A designer must be emotionally and intellectually energetic," Kennon said.
The design process must include quantitative and qualitative analysis. It needs focusing for maximum potential and concentration for the essential factors, Kennon said.
"The design process for a building must include the needs of the people," Kennon said. "These needs include the human to human needs and the human to object needs. The objects of attraction of a building must vary."
Kennon related this process to the Gestalt psychology. Kennon said that the relationship between the different parts of a project, gave the designer the meaning of the whole project.
"WE HAVE to keep looking for new sights and seek out the essence of the problems," Kennon said. "There must be a concern for the realities of the situation and these realities make the problem unique. Architecture and urban design is the extension of human activity."
Women Suggest Nixon Adviser
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon was asked Thursday to name a special assistant to advise him on women's rights and responsibilities.
The request was wired to Nixon by the Talent Bank, an organization launched early this year by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Its objective is to help the administration obtain names of women qualified for promotion to high, policy-making positions in the federal government.
Organizations representing more than 25 million American women joined the request.
CLAIMS CLIMB
NEW YORK—The cost to insurance companies of paying claims growing out of auto accidents is mounting steadily, says the Insurance Information Institute. From 1958 through 1968, the average bodily injury claim rose 58 per cent from $981 to $1,550 and the average property damage liability claim climbed 77 per cent from $151 to $267.
A new design in the construction of colleges was discussed by Kennon.
Each college, he said, would be a massive extension of one building. The design of the building would stress the topography of the land around it.
"THE INSIDE of the buildings will be very informal and comfortable, with no walls to restrict the interaction between the students," Kennon said. "The building must be a shell for the activities of 'now', and the shell can't get in the way of the activities."
on the back of one of the walls of the building, Kennon said.
He said the colleges would contain student centers in the middle with the other extensions of the school branching off of it. The departments will all be connected by a series of walkways and parks, he said. The schools will also feature drive-in lecture lots and the lectures will be shown
Kennon concluded his lecture by saying that the designer must "let the project design itself, don't let the design get in the way. Let each generation be able to do its own thing."
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