unbearable lightness - urban design charrette

[Artur Ferreira da Silva]

At 11:19 12-02-2004 -0500, Jennifer Hurley wrote:

>"Charrette" is the French word for "little cart".  Architects now use the
>term to mean "intense design workshop".  There's a story to this:
>supposedly, at the end of the semester at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, the
>students would frantically work on their end-of-semester assignments right
>to the very end, even jumping into the "charrette", or cart, that the school
>sent around to collect them.


Thanks for your clarification and text, Jennifer. I had never seen the word
used in this context.

I suppose that my students (computer science) are always in some sort of
"charrette"... And they could use some "charrette architecture techniques"
as they already use patterns.

Artur

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