Architecture School
As a kid, I helped build the houses we lived in... Rainy afternoons were spent flipping through 1, 2 and 3 bedroom house plan books my dad had lying around the house. In my mind I walked through those spaces... questioning some design moves... seeing how layouts worked and didn't. Architectural thought had started at an early age.My formal Architecture education began at the Carleton University School of Architecture in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was to last six, intense, mind-expanding years.
2012 in Review
2012. Things learned? Or simply things that should never be forgotten:Spend time together.
Create.
Explore.
Wander.
And there are always more... but these are ones that spring to mind this time of year. These are actions I believe should never be left out of that big equation or exploration of life.
Finding a sketch from 2003
Flipping through an old sketchbook... seeing these words that still make me think. I also made think that I haven't worn a watch in so many years! :-DDo not try to find those days lost between these pages for they are forever gone. No mark was made upon hose days. No record was kept of the air temperature, wind speed, or precipitation amount. Those numbers and figures are lost. But, even had I recorded all those numbers, had I chosen a location which held some significance such as the top of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris or the font porch of my apartment or.... what would those numbers and figures have meant to someone (even myself. "hello self. This is you, in a coffee shop at age 34.") in the future? Numbers, data, squiggles on the pages. And?
The journey is not the arrival but the anticipation of the unknown.




