Before the ink even hits the blueprint, there’s space planning. It’s the backstage pass to design, where the architect becomes part detective, part strategist—assessing client needs, organizing functional programs, and mapping out how it all fits together. Then comes the Design Concept, the golden hour when the architect’s creative juices flow, and the client’s needs and desires leap off the page and into architectural form. This is the high-stakes phase, the conceptual battleground, where the architect flexes muscle, weaving together competing requirements with the kind of creativity that turns a jumble of demands into something cohesive, something beautiful. It’s the art before the architecture.