This post is too important for a silly picture.
I was at an event yesterday that made me want to bring up the topic of unprogrammed space in architecture for the seventh time. From one point of view--a nasty, brutish, parsimonious, and miserable point of view--the lack of complete planning in a design is regarded as a sign of failure. If you end up with too much space in a building that is intended for social uses then some people with the point of view referenced above--nasty, brutish, etc...--will raise hell about the money that was wasted and the lack of efficiency and how a better job could have been done if people had exercised more discipline and just look at all those empty rooms and wide open spaces with nothing going on...
No one knows the future well enough to design for it. We make our best guess and then proceed with confidence. But, if we're smart, we make it a little bit bigger. Houses can be an important exception to this principle, but we've been enlarging dwellings for reasons that have nothing to do with function or beauty (you need a dining room for resale value).
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