[About Ove Arup] “Design was at the top of his agenda, and he defined it as an all-embracing concept – a continuum of analysis, synthesis, production, construction and evaluation; an iterative activity where process and product are indivisible. He understood and voiced the reality that the nineteenth century concept of the singular designer/builder had been – and was continuing to be – eroded by the explosion in knowledge and the consequent inevitability of ever-increasing specialisation. He spoke endlessly about the need to integrate all these skills into a unified whole which satisfied the Vitruvian trio of ‘Commodity’, ‘Firmness’, and ‘Delight’.”
Lack Zunz in ‘We like what you did’, V&A Magazine, Issue No 40, Summer 2016, p.48
rastplatznotizen. 