Apple - Connected ecosystem
Google - Fragmented (even their ideas are this and that)
Exactly
Apple - Connected ecosystem
Google - Fragmented (even their ideas are this and that)
Props for the phrenology mention...
I knew I'd seen this before! Yeah, they blew this place up after the 96 Olympics in ATL.
where exactly will this be, because they will undoubtedly want even their address to be philosophically perfect and beautiful.
You're either born with an aesthetic sense or you're not.
Sorry Google. You weren't.
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Analyzing architecture like this is akin to phrenology.
Props for the phrenology mention...
Inappropriate though it may be.
Apple seems to be a very top-down, driven company. The people at the top have a very precise idea of exactly what they want -- Steve Jobs was the penultimate example -- and the rest of the company strives to make it happen.
Google strikes me as the opposite. They have some general goals, but employees are encouraged to experiment. "Hey, I have an idea that could be great!" And they're willing to try lots of things, hoping to stumble upon something great.
Both approaches have different strengths and weaknesses. The Google approach means they try lots of things that don't really work, possibly wasting time and money, but the employees at least feel like their time and input are valued.
With the Apple approach, if they get it right, it works beautifully and it really helps their image as this magical company that churns out hit after hit and can do no wrong (because we don't get to see the ones that didn't make it out of their labs), but then you get all these comments about how they're "not innovating" because we don't see, and don't know, what's going on in there. Also, if/when Ives & Cook guess something wrong, once the market isn't quick to embrace their latest and greatest, that could be the beginning of a slippery slope.
Thanks, IJ Reilly, you got there before me.
I don't get the phrenology reference at all.
A reference to pseudoscience, I presume. Nearly everyone spends most of their lives inhabiting buildings created by people with deliberation and intent -- and yet, many still seem to believe that architecture is random and without discernible symbolism or meaning.
The professor sounds more like an astrologer doing Apple & Google horoscopes than an architectural analysis.
You're either born with an aesthetic sense or you're not.
So what will Samsung's new campus look like?
I think Apples building design reflects more on their address rather than culture. Their campus is on Infinite Loop (St. Rd.?) A circle is a representation of an infinite loop.