the soil is rich

as an architect, you're expected to live in the middle land between extremes of creativity and rationale, public good and financial gain, big and small. as an architecture student, you can usually lop off half those expectations and create your idealized little paper project that finds its half life before completion. any frustrations are covered in three cheese pizza and revenge of the sith bonus material. snap, end of story.

the reality, as i have learned in the past few months, is much closer to those other requirements. architecture becomes the big complex pool full of ping pong balls that all need submergence. how do you invest that life and time in something that might not happen, or will at least come into the hands of someone else who is determined to make it happen differently.

in both my studio and my new job, i'm attempting to stick to the guns i've been given, while seeing a whole other set of new challenges. actual things are happening in austin and i'm fortunate enough to play a part in it. this is where architecture gets exciting. where things are on the line and obi wan can't really help.