{"id":33538,"date":"2013-12-16T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/blurred-people-in-architectural-drawings-welcome\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T20:52:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T20:52:15","slug":"blurred-people-in-architectural-drawings-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/blurred-people-in-architectural-drawings-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurred people in architectural drawings: Welcome to the Postnormal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/stoweboyd.com\/post\/70212060052\/blurred-people-in-architectural-drawings-welcome-to\">stoweboyd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/b986746713060dc39e57af700f8d6a32\/tumblr_inline_mxwzycnjAe1qc7p1s.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/cc566364319c041ac83e42753b828900\/tumblr_inline_mxx0fkHnGs1qc7p1s.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Joep Jacobs<\/p>\n<p>In a world of real and imagined pressures to move fast, architects are rendering people as ballistic objects, hurling through designed spaces:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sue Shellenbarger,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303497804579242203005473122\">How Busy Colleagues Spread Secondhand Stress &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Architects have begun blurring human figures in drawings of new-office projects, to appeal to clients who aspire to active, high-energy workplaces, says Jorge Barrero, a technical designer in Chicago for Gensler, an architecture, planning and design firm. The image is one clients \u201ccan connect with on an emotional level,\u201d Mr. Barrero says.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Krizmanic, a principal with Studios Architecture in New York, says about a quarter of the 218 designs he helped judge in a recent office-design competition, co-sponsored by Business Interiors by Staples, showed humans as blurred figures in motion. The trend began about three years ago, he says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This may be the enterprise elite\u2019s equivalent of the new aesthetics. Instead of glitch art and drones, though, it\u2019s executives sprinting through foyers or hallways, striding purposefully across\u00a0streets, just on the verge of reaching escape velocity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stoweboyd: Joep Jacobs In a world of real and imagined pressures to move fast, architects are rendering people as ballistic objects, hurling through designed spaces: Sue Shellenbarger,\u00a0How Busy Colleagues Spread Secondhand Stress &#8211; WSJ.com Architects have begun blurring human figures in drawings of new-office projects, to appeal to clients who aspire to active, high-energy workplaces, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}