Right or Left?
Jody Brown, illustrator and architect, has come up with an explanation about innovative architects and designers. It is a fact that the right brain is more on the creative side and the left more on the analytical. So which parts of the brain do the architects and designers use the most?
We would all like to think "Right" but actually, it's both!
Architects and designers wow the audience with their sheer brilliance. For example: "The Basket Building" in Ohio, which is actually an office and residential building that looks exactly like a giant picnic basket or the giant dog peeing over a museum wall.
Don't even get started on crazy interior décor stuff. Home design ideas have ""cook-able furniture" and canvas chairs that are more like paintings than seats.
Have you ever wondered where those craziest, brilliant, most creative ideas of buildings and interior décor come from?
No surprises. The brain.
According to the illustrations, both the sides are equally used by the creative masterminds. While the left brain pays attention to the patterns, measurements it also focuses on meeting deadlines, understanding building and design codes, paying bills , setting appointments and remembering them, "cleaning the refrigerator", "smelling like vanilla" and going to "sleep at 10 p.m."(apparently, architects and designers need their sleep).
The right brain of an architect mainly focuses on the possibilities and potential of a new project and is easily excited by each option that surfaces. However, arriving late at every meeting or appointment, spending $200 on a pen, wearing a scarf in July and leaving sticky notes in the pocket are also some of the activities it controls.
Check out the details of the graphic illustrations of an architect's brain, here.
The right and left brain play crucial parts in the making of a design. However, one part of the brain is slightly dominant. But if a person is slightly more "left-brained" than "right-brained", that doesn't mean they cannot create, According to Oneextrapixel.com: "A right-brain person will design much less structured work, such as an abstract. The work is likely to be freeform, having lines without boundaries and structure built in and the piece is likely to have more meaning and emotion tied into the design."
''The left-brain designer is orderly in the approach to the work, with definite lines and formations included into the piece. The piece is more likely to be reality based, drawing realistic animals or incorporating concrete forms like a boat or particular familiar shape," according to the website.
Take this quiz to find out which part of your brain is dominant.
