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Burnett would come up with a new method for crafting a happier, more fulfilling existence; he called it ‘designing your life’. By applying design thinking to personal development, Burnett thought he could help people live in ways that were truer and more authentic, an approach that eventually formed the basis of the ‘Design Your Life’ course at Sta

If you can’t envision a style for your new home, or you and your spouse can’t agree on a style, ask for input from an architect or designer. (See Chapter 5 for the specifics of finding and working with an architect.) Your design pro will look at the scrapbook you have compiled and ask questions about your lifestyle. She may suggest a home style tha

put up partitions, and then knocked them down when he had a fresh idea.

When the law favors your position, identify it and return to it again and again.

The OMA group studied desire lines and used them to plan the campus center, unified by a long single roof. The building wasn’t so much a new creation as an observation of extant use: it effectively enclosed the pathways and connections between activities on campus that were already established.