Linkography by Gabriela Goldschmidt

Author:Gabriela Goldschmidt [Goldschmidt, Gabriela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Design, History and Criticism, Computers, Social Aspects, Human-Computer Interaction
ISBN: 9780262027199
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 5.6

Linkograph of episode from Gilbert’s design process, branch library design exercise.

Move 3 My sense would be that we could build on top of the walls. You could say that you have so much of the wall started, let’s build on top of it and go with that. My sense would be that would not be a good decision to make for several reasons. One, you don’t know about the actual structural integrity of the walls. So let’s not do that. Two, no matter what we do, it’s never going to match. If the wall has been built for some period of time, when we come in and stack new stuff on it, it isn’t going to match even if we had the exact same builder. Plus, when you take a wall that’s 2’6” high and 20 feet long, it’s like “Why bother?”

Later the walls led to the establishment of a grid that was to become the foundation of the library design, but Gilbert was satisfied with a lengthy analysis and did not actively engage is arriving at a design solution.

The low performance indicators appear to reflect Gilbert’s interpretation of his role, which yielded loosely interlinked bits of commentary that were not integrated into a whole.

Gideon

Gideon, a practicing architect, was oriented toward solutions, probably as a result of his daily experience in practice. Like Gilbert, Gideon was presented with the “Library II” task. The library he imagined was a simple wooden structure with a hearth and a prominent chimney. The space within the library would be flooded with light coming through a glass wall and through windows in the roof (skylights).

The linkograph of an episode from his process, shown here in figure 5.7, includes 64 moves—one more move than Gilbert’s episode. However, Gideon’s moves are interconnected with a much larger number of links: 80. There is also a fair number of critical moves, eight of them at the level of CM4. Structurally, however, Gideon’s linkograph does not offer more clarity than Gilbert’s, and well-defined groupings of highly interlinked moves cannot be discerned. 5 The fact that all the critical moves other than the last are CMs> tells us that Gideon kept advancing new ideas, but there is no evidence that they resulted in firm decisions before the process moved on to new concerns. An exception is move 18, to which the sole <CM in the linkograph (move 57) backlinks. Move 18 is interesting because at a lower level (CM3) it is critical in both directions, thus having a bit more of a structural role in the process:

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