Of course, architects do not design in isolation, clients choose and brief them.
For Thompson, self-driving, electric cars can't be designed in isolation from their environment.
The problem, I've heard some argue, is the tram was designed in isolation of pedestrians and cyclists, and now everyone has to muddle around it.
Here's another good idea: buildings in cities should not be designed in isolation, but in relation to the places in which they are set, whether these are views to and from world heritage sites, or the fabric of adjoining streets.
It is typical of many technologies that were designed in isolation as playful academic exercises during the early days of Unix and the network and which took root in social consciousness.
These methods were designed in isolation as stand-alone algorithms, and there has been little work treating various recognition methods as alternative sources of information that can be combined to increase sketch recognition accuracy.
These results support the notion that technological innovation requires both R&D and learning-by-doing, and for this reason public R&D programs should typically not be designed in isolation from practical applications.
Therefore, in a rice growth model, the water stress scheme should not be designed in isolation from other environmental changes, such as air temperature, and CO2 level.
A road user charging scheme should not be designed in isolation but in the context of the full range of complementary policies that will support it (Section 3.1).
This type of system, however, should not be designed in isolation, but in combination with strategies, including a national social security system and public-private partnerships [49] [51].
