Talk:Guilds

Reacting to this concept, an avocational architect that learned to be a production carpenter to be a better one, have designed & built mainly residential including passive-solar & thermal-fluid systems and see our architecture lacking the standard methods for a building to supply its heating & cooling, now more, as part of design using thermal-mass as storage in any form and more.

In relation to this, Western Box Framing is well known, so to gain leverage on this and support passive-solar, it doesn't take much modification to it to add in a solar-gain wall to heat thermal-mass, can be done as a remodel and then the home doesn't have a heating bill to speak of by rather inexpensive changes to standard practice and no materials not at supply stores.

This type of work to me is a path beaten by Michael Reynolds, aka Garbage Warrior that thought & experimented with coherent buildings for living, there is a huge need for his principles and methods, we can add more high-tech ones, a guild certainly would.

So a guild may be a way to circumvent the sloth of the AIA & other architectural organizations to move on autonomous buildings, that to me is very attractive and using apprentice-journeyman-master as a pattern of these alternative methods makes sense as a framework.

Appreciate the thinking,

tom