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... The title of this blog has to do with a Will Bruder quote I heard while attending the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) during the Fall of 1999 - "Learn to master the trash can and you might become something" - It really resonated with me and has stuck with me to this day. I suppose for me the concept hit hard that although you can discard an idea, concept, sketch, design, whatever for a certain project you may be able to revisit it at a later date under different circumstances - In other words designs never die, they evolve, they hibernate, they circle-back but they never die...Or maybe he was just telling us to quit our ideas of becoming Architects and to go live in a public park somewhere; which, given the current state of the industry probably would not have been such a bad idea...

That is what this Blog will be for me - With over a decade in the industry I have come to realize that what I thought I would be doing on a daily basis and what I actually do are pretty darn different - BUT - I still have ideas, I still have hopes and I still have my creativity; So, I figured this would be a good outlet...I will share my thoughts on work and the industry as well as whatever moments of creativity I can muster - And, yes, at the direction of my Wife I will keep the swearing to an absolute minimum.

Cheers...B.

Friday, February 10, 2012

SHHHHHHH! - JUST LISTEN FOR ONCE:

... NEWSFLASH: Do you want to know what makes you a good Architect? - Drawing ability? Keen sense of style? An all black wardrobe? - Oh wait, I know - Carrying a sketchbook everywhere you go, right? Well, certainly these attributes can not hurt. But, I tell you what - Next time you you really, really want to get your point across about that really, really hip stairwell you have designed or how the compression and release of the foyer has to be just right to evoke the proper feeling upon entry to that steakhouse in New York - Try listening first. Seriously. Listen to your clients, listen to your boss, your peers, your interns, yourself...Listen to what the design is telling you - Just, listen. I think you will find that even though you may not agree with them all the time they actually have something valid to say; especially when you are NOT talking over them...I am reminded of a quote from the 2007 Film, 'American Gangster' - "The loudest one in the room is also the weakest one in the room."

Shhhhhhh...Can you hear it? - You just might make it in this industry; you just might make it as an Architect...Hell, you just might make it in life.
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