162:. Peña's master project was a design for an elementary school, which was used as an initial design by the firm for the construction of the school for the Blackwell, Oklahoma school district and the beginning of the approach to finely define the requirements for actual design work that involved "squatting" with the client until the specifications were clear. It was the first school for the firm that built its name on designing schools.
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He promoted the concept of architectural programming where considerations, materials, goals, and a problem statement were formulated by analysts or programmers, which were to be solved by the architects. It has been defined as "a process that provides the general direction a building's design should
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This method, developed by Pena in the 1960s and published in 1969, had its roots in the post war building boom that was taking place in the United States at the time. The
Problem Seeking method was a means of establishing order and control over a system that had grown increasingly complex during the
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Peña, hired by
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