Wiki Architecture wiki

Wiki Architecture: Is open source  possible?

Current design practices focus on a single architect making the major decisions, then "throwing the design over the wall" for someone else to implement. Current design practices give little information to the implementers or the users of the why it was designed that way, and give little feedback back to the architect on what features worked well and what features should be done differently next time. A more open-source, transparent process that allows more people to observe the design process, planning, and production sequence through the end of construction would be educational to everyone involved.

Wiki and the  movement have demonstrated amazing collaborative creativity, creating things that no one person could have done alone.

Currently, the biggest project at the Wiki Architecture wiki is:
 * Open Source White House Redux: develop an alternate building to the current White House in Washington D.C.

Everyone can collaborate, borrow, brainstorm, comment, and contribute, regardless of one's abilities. The wiki hosts  architectural in many formats, although "blender format files" and "SketchUp files" are preferred. (As of: 28 November 2012)


 * Related wiki
 * wiki in the  category
 * Open Source Ecology wiki discusses constructing buildings out of compressed earth blocks and other ways of applying open source to large physical artifacts