AA lecture by Paul Nakazawa 081114

Paul Nakazawa is an architect and management consultant, who has been assisting offices such as OMA and UN Studio to make design an innovative as well as profitable business. He was a founder of AMO (the content driven research facilitiy within OMA), and started the Masters program SciFi at SCIARC School of Architecture in Los Angeles.

I stayed for the Friday night lecture at the AA, and was also invited for the dinner which gave the opportunity for a very valuable conversation. He is one of few who has taken a strong interest in the relation between innovative architectural design and the organization of practice. I hope to stay in touch with him. I will later add my notes, for now his diagrams will have to do.

First part of Nakazawa´s biographical introduction to show his background
First part of Nakazawa´s biographical introduction to show his background
Interesting diagram of design driven practices in relation to practices more like service architects
Diagram depicting a model of design practice including management and design delivery
A model for the continuous development of pracitce, with paradigm shifts through which a practice may turn into a strategic practice rather than a pure classical design practice. Similar to a model I saw presented by Kevin Kelly, depicting technology paradigm shifts. I guess the "wave" diagram is fairly common within management?
Second part of Nakazawa´s biographical introduction to show his background
Diagram showing the importance of the unplanned events in reality, "polluting" the diagram
Paul Nakazawa

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