Architect Joshua Ramus Who Designs with Curiosity, Creativity, and Engineering Spoke at the Dallas Architecture Forum
Architect Joshua Ramus spoke to the Dallas Architecture Forum. We saw how he responded and anticipated the evolving needs of clients with creativity, curiosity, and engineering borrowed from other industries to create refined and elegant design. Many architects execute a preconceived design to envelope a rigid program fulfilling a primary need. Joshua Ramus examines, explores, and expands how a building might be used whether it is a performance hall, an office building or an architecturally significant modern residence.
Joshua Ramus Borrows Engineering From Other Industries
His solutions borrowed engineering from other industries. Equipment developed for other uses were adapted to his theaters and other buildings, where they enhanced specific parts of the design and, in doing so, became an inspiration for more elaborate performance halls. The Wyly Theatre in Dallas allowed the many forms of theater productions to thrive. He created a building that adapted to dozens of dramatically different configurations suited for the theater production. We saw in his more current projects performance halls where a ceiling could drop in seconds to acoustically enhance the solo of a maestro and then be raised to capture the complete sound of the entire symphony.
Beyond Form and a Program
While we generally think of architecture as form and program Joshua Ramus thinks of architecture as responding to the immediate, changing and evolving needs of the user — whether it is an office, performance hall or residence. The creative disruption of conventional spaces does not diminish the elegance of the building.
A preconceived form that envelopes a rigid program fulfilling primary needs does not easily adapt and often becomes obsolete and vulnerable to being torn down. Just as nature has seasons and times of day, the needs of buildings also have seasons and respond to the rhythms of the day — constantly changing and evolving. Joshua Ramus begins with creative ideas and then finds aesthetic solutions that enhance their adaptability.
