Architects always have the most beautiful offices, with the most spectacular views. At least, my experience has always, without exception, been so. The question: "Who has the best office in this city?" is equal to the question: "Which of the architects in this city has the best office?"
Mayors' offices and governors' offices are nice, but architects' offices are simply in a different league. Even the offices of architects who aren't particularly good. Perhaps they all share the ambition to get ONE thing right; and some of them, after securing the right office space with the right views and fixing the place up correctly, simply don't have any energy left over for things like designing spaces for other people. I can understand that.
And seen that way, there are really no architects who are failures. Because: what could be more important than the space in which one works? Possibly the space in which one lives away from work. But if you work for most of your waking hours, and do little at home besides sleep?
And nothing has ever made me imagine wanting to spend a lot of time at work more than architects' offices. ("Honey, I --" "No time to talk, work work work, love ya bye!") And then off to the office, where you do great things, if you're a great architect, or just put your feet up and have a great life, if you're not.
No comments:
Post a Comment