I love that. I once knew a successful architect whose big project was
a Hilton Hotel in Hawaii and with a similar adulation of architects I
asked him how it felt to have something he designed be part of the
landscape. His response was that it was just a lot of time designing
toilets.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:04 PM, James N. McBride wrote:
> When I was young I thought I wanted to be an Architect but wandered
> to other
> things. I still sometimes think it would have been fun to go that
> route.
> Most people don't realize how hard it is for a young architect to get
> established. That drives many away from the field. I mentioned to an
> architect friend one day that it must be satisfying to drive past
> all those
> monuments to his skill and success. He replied, "Yes it is. Then
> there are
> those other monuments that do not reflect anything you want to be
> remembered
> for, but your name is on them, and you know the damn things will be
> there
> much longer than you." /jmac
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