28.3.09

TIME

Tree Top Walk at Kew Gardens by Marks Barfield Architects


I can breathe a little easier now. Last Friday was quite a happy ending. To those of you who showed up, my heartfelt thanks. I hope you walked away inspired and enlightened. It'll be awhile before I forget his parody of the Tower of Babel – the one with the architect, client, planning authority and historian in it - “You mean this got approved??!”


But just as the lecture series winds down, grad ex dawns on the horizon, with signs indicating a rocky road ahead. Elections ain't even over yet.


Studio rocks this semester, if not for the fact that everyone seems to have outgrown studio, preferring to work from home instead. Perhaps it's a coming-of-age thing, and if so, then independence and self-discipline are going to have to be eagerly cultivated from now on.


I wonder if my fellowmen realise that we stand on the brink of a very new chapter - three weeks shy in fact. No doubt we're all very busy with our own affairs, and you'll be perfectly justified for crying foul and branding me emo, but I just can't help but lament the demise of the geist I was so familiar with before leaving for Sheffield. True, it still rears its head every now and then, but it never fully resurfaced and before long we'll all be off on different paths.

But such is the nature of subtle change. It creeps upon you oh so slowly, and after it has completely run its course, you pause and ponder, 'goodness, where did time go? where has everyone gone?'


Yet at the same time it's all very exciting - the way we've developed and the various interests we've begun to pursue, which really leads you on to wonder how things'll be like five, ten years from now when
we've cleared the last couple of hurdles and our wings are fully grown.

In the meantime, all the best for final submission!

7.3.09

Character Development

image by charluna


MENTAL NOTE:

1. be more careful with your words.

2. eat out more often. check out all the best places to have lunch and dinner. will definitely come in handy in the future. hopefully.

3. moneo and tange were esteemed and respected because of three factors:

a.they were good at what they did
b.they nurtured the next generation
c.they were gentlemen architects