Buon Lavoro!

Amsterdam Bibliotheek and Conservatorium

It's getting to be about that time once again. Due dates are nearing and it all seems to be happening much too quickly. Something about this feels surprisingly comforting. Perhaps being trained to churn out work at an unreal rate has its benefits. I will say that i ve found a good amount of satisfaction in sitting down and just making things happen. I ve spent the last couple months doing all of the admiring and none of the designing. It's a funny feeling when you start designing again for the first time in a while. In the middle of a pen stroke or cad command you will realize that you really do know what youre doing and didnt forget everything you once knew.

The picture above was taken without a second thought about who had designed the buildings in it. Turns out the building on the right was designed by a man who i met earlier this week at a guest lecture for the Architecture program. FRITS VAN DONGEN spoke for roughly an hour and a half ( longer than my typical attention span ) about his utter domination of the field of architecture. He described the concepts behind his competition winning projects in Korea, Canada, and Amsterdam. He is behind the construction of three seperate islands and the houses situated above which have recently been built in Amsterdam. I have never met a man with this kind of resume in my entire life and was quite nervous to speak with him afterwards. I eventually composed myself enough to extract some life advice from a man who seems to have things well figured out. The message he relayed was a familiar one ( although his story was not ). "YOU HAVE TO LOVE IT." plain and simple.