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Build experiments. When choosing a material color or texture for your building – test it. You can run experiments for testing in virtual of physical models, in drawings and diagrams or even through mind maps which can help you organize your thoughts for pro-con lists or systems development, for example. Understand that architectural ideas and visions can be tested, for further development and sophistication. Learn to balance the art of business efficiency with creative design experimentation.

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Find inspiration from other medias, like books, art or even film. Notice how the narratives flow, how the compositions are harmonized and how different senses are leveraged to convey messages through those mediums. Remember the expression that says “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture?” Different medias and their narratives interrelate (in grand part due to the way we humans perceive through our senses). Take advantage of this as an architect. Use your creative abilities to understand other mediums, as this will help you to refine and expand you creative powers. Many times, creative input is as important as output.

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When You’re working on an aspect of your design where you just don’t seem to be making headway on finding an elegant solution, try shifting to something else for a while — or if it’s the end of the day, simple leave it as what you will tackle first thing the next day. By leaving the design problem, think of it as still “facing you”. So, take a break or sleep on it overnight, and when you return to it the next day — the design problem’s solution will present itself to you. This works for me time and time again. For example, while building a model during a design stage, I would leave the unanswered portion of the design problem that was taking me too long to solve by literally facing the physical problem area toward my empty desk chair just before leaving studio. Sure enough, the image of it “facing me” allowed me to ruminate on the design problem even while I was away from the office. And sure enough, the answer would usually present itself to me upon my return.