{"id":718,"date":"2025-11-16T15:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guggenheimerarchitect.com\/staging\/7554\/?p=718"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:37:24","slug":"many-ways-to-skin-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guggenheimerarchitect.com\/staging\/7554\/many-ways-to-skin-a-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Multiple Paths Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like many architects we explore several solutions for every project. In this way we can test alternative directions a project can reveal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exploring Multiple Paths Forward<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once four or five adequate designs have been developed \u2013 we test each one in dialogue with our clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Architecture as Trial, Error and Discovery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only does this process remind everyone involved that design is a fluid, unpredictable and beautifully inefficient process without a predetermined end point \u2013 it also illustrates how we are forced to abandon many perfectly reasonable designs in favor of one perfectly reasonable design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many architects we explore several solutions for every project. 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