Although Coco Brown intends to add some trails and set aside common park space (as yet undesigned) in Sagaponack, his project is, at heart, a plain-vanilla subdivision.
Not only is there no right answer when the subject is Melville, there's no right question, just the undesigned and often circuitous process of turning the object of your attention this way and that way until something arresting emerges, and then you do it again, without the programmed prompting of any deus ex machina.
Cayce doesn 't stop to wonder what this means or why she has such a ridiculous name; instead she puts on her CPUs, her Cayce Pollard Units, her designer clothes artfully designed to look undesigned.
Comfortable leather seating and benches line the walls of the vast space, which Ad de Hond, vice-president of store design, has proudly declared is "undesigned, rather than designed".
Gould has always argued that his ene mies, and most of his colleagues, see too much design and too many adaptations in the world, and coopted from architecture the term "spandrel" to describe an undesigned feature which is a necessary consequence of one that is designed, but is then used as a base for further design.
I imagine a nurse picking up the phone to one of his grown-up kids in the middle of the night, and one of them groping for the light, minutes after having made love, and coming to terms with his death, vaguely aware that beginnings and endings are peremptory and undesigned, but held in balance; and all at once it strikes me that we're not self-starting either, are we?
Jonathan Morr, a New York restaurateur who owns Bond Street and Republic, asked her to create an "undesigned" hotel in Miami, called Townhouse.
When the Leon Hess estate was selling the Jets last year, one of the keys to getting several hundred million dollars from the winning suitor was the prospect that an undesigned, unfinanced, unbuilt stadium would become a future money machine.
It lived under the sink, unloved, undesigned, plastic or worse.
At the other end of the spectrum, historic courtyard mansions are getting a trendy makeover as guesthouses, leaving no stone undesigned.
