Richard Meier - My design process (28_36)

If I were to list, I don't know if I could really prioritize it, because many things go on simultaneously. You can't say orientation, climate, location, site, context. I mean, they're all part of it. And they're all things that you're thinking about at the same time. You're not just thinking about context, irrespective of orientation, light, and movement. So all of these things kind of happen at one time. So that's sort of one grouping of elements. The second grouping of elements would be, what is it? What's the program? What do they want of you? What's the problem you're trying to deal with? And then the third thing is, OK, how do you take those elements and make something that goes beyond just solving the problem? Because if it's just solving the problem, what's the point?