ABSTRACT
As you finish school and move into the profession, you will find that you need to be able to explain your design philosophy or outlook-to potential employers, on graduate school applications, to explain professional activities to the public, and to potential clients, all who deserve to know if your values are a good match for theirs. But, perhaps most importantly, you have come to a point in your career where you need to clarify what you believe and the values you hold to yourself. Mastering the two related writing activities presented in this chapter, the design statement and the manifesto, will help prepare you for these occasions. The design statement and the manifesto are related in that they both are a declaration of self and where you stand in relation to architecture —that is, they both get at your core values. They do differ, however, in their scope: a design philosophy is a statement that tells the reader what values you wish your work to represent and why you hold these concepts. A manifesto goes further to express a larger validity that is
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the reader of a lack in current architectural thought and how you propose to rectify the situation. It is a sustained argument born of dissatisfaction with the current state of thought in architecture. We will get into more detail about both genres as the chapter progresses.
