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DESIGN & THE HOUSE
7 AM, Saturday, November 1, 2025 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org
The house is the “Ur” building – the most essential architecture: it is the one place that every human has, and knows. The design of a place to live can be a room’s color or a palace. Homes are the extensions of humans – and if designed by a designer the process has a product that has intimate meaning to its occupant: And the home is often the most public face of a person or family.
Most “Design” is judged by the public as finished objects, most often seen in 2D and judged by their aesthetic impact: but the home is lived by those living in it: the proof of worth is in the experience of living in a home: its social value or cost is not the primary determinate of its worth. Homes are often our largest set of clothing, where fit trumps style.
Homes are completely subjective in their expression, and yet a universal building every person has. Home design is a risky adventure where trust and faith weave with fear together, testing wallets, schedules, and all the ways building anything meshes with our culture. Most home construction in most places does not require “professionals”, but some states do. (In Connecticut no home under 5,000 square feet in size has to have a licensed architect.) None of the manifestation of who we are in our interior surfaces requires a licensed designer – especially in the era of Internet availability of everything.
What do homes mean to their designers? How do they connect to the owners? How do the designers create their own home? Renowned architects Mark Simon, Jeremiah Eck and George Ranalli have designed both homes and public buildings: their insights on the way design changes to fit the use is essential to understanding the channels of creation every designer addresses.
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By Duo Dickinson7 AM, Saturday, November 1, 2025 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org
The house is the “Ur” building – the most essential architecture: it is the one place that every human has, and knows. The design of a place to live can be a room’s color or a palace. Homes are the extensions of humans – and if designed by a designer the process has a product that has intimate meaning to its occupant: And the home is often the most public face of a person or family.
Most “Design” is judged by the public as finished objects, most often seen in 2D and judged by their aesthetic impact: but the home is lived by those living in it: the proof of worth is in the experience of living in a home: its social value or cost is not the primary determinate of its worth. Homes are often our largest set of clothing, where fit trumps style.
Homes are completely subjective in their expression, and yet a universal building every person has. Home design is a risky adventure where trust and faith weave with fear together, testing wallets, schedules, and all the ways building anything meshes with our culture. Most home construction in most places does not require “professionals”, but some states do. (In Connecticut no home under 5,000 square feet in size has to have a licensed architect.) None of the manifestation of who we are in our interior surfaces requires a licensed designer – especially in the era of Internet availability of everything.
What do homes mean to their designers? How do they connect to the owners? How do the designers create their own home? Renowned architects Mark Simon, Jeremiah Eck and George Ranalli have designed both homes and public buildings: their insights on the way design changes to fit the use is essential to understanding the channels of creation every designer addresses.