My Mom was right on this one
Some people don’t understand that design takes time. People who don’t work in creative professions think that art/design/creativity/inspiration just comes instantly to those with talent. Architects know that it takes time to produce even a decent design. Mulling it over, trying this and that, looking at precedent photos, talking about it with colleagues, drawing it from lots of different angles, making crappy little models with scotch tape and paper, doing a sketchup model and then remembering why you hate sketchup, rinse and repeat, etc. This is the process.
I’m trying to do something similar on a scale larger than a building. ”Larger than a building? Like, a campus of buildings?” No, larger.
I’m trying to figure out how I can help make the building industry more collaborative and less….fighty, angsty, and exhausting. I’m also trying to figure out how I can make a living doing that.
This is a big project, and it requires mulling it over, trying this and that, reading lots of stuff, talking about it with colleagues, considering it from lots of different angles, making crappy little attempts at it with blog entries and articles, etc etc.
It takes time. But time is expensive. As my mother told me, you can either have time or money, but you almost never have both.
I’ve been one of the lucky ones, and have not been laid off. So I have a job, which pays the bills if I’m very disciplined. It sure makes it difficult to pursue the larger goal, though. The ironic part is, if I didn’t work as an architect, people would have no reason to listen to me talk about the building industry. What to do?
