Subject: Re: master builders
From: Lucy Pearson (lima_bean@altavista.com)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 13:43:20 EST
Wow, Catherine, you have really got your ideas sorted on this one. How old are you? Obviously not very old if you're just thinking about a career start. It's nice to find someone who has such strong, practical and above all beautiful ideas about how they are going to conduct such a major part of their life. Go for it girl!
Love, Lucy-Ruth
On Sat, 29 January 2000, "Catherine Marie" wrote:
>
> Scottie,
> I must say thank you for the warning. The truth is I've spent much of my
> life around architects, primarily my mother, but also other people who she
> worked with, friends from college, and such. I'm far too aware of all the
> mundane aspects of what architects really do. I know I could do a million
> other things and be so much richer for it, or have so much more in control,
> but then, I guess despite the arguments with contractors, customers
> (retarded or not) and builders, I can't really say I'd be happy doing
> anything else. My main goal is to spend my entire career completely separate
> from ego, the trap so many architects fall into. They are so set on their
> art, and their place within that, that they forget what they are trying to
> do. For me that means I never want to be famous. I never want to design a
> million dollar home. I'd be happier being the person in the back doing all
> the thinking, and getting no credit. Somehow I think credit is the biggest
> corrupter of them all, with money somewhere close behind. I mostly want to
> do urban housing, apartment buildings and such, that work, are reasonably
> priced, but are still beautiful. When I say beautiful I don't mean on paper
> as much as in reality. Things that are clean, and stripped of unnecessary
> decoration, and that feel holy. I mean, all we do our whole lives is go from
> one little piece of Holy Ground to another, (said Seymour), right? I just
> want people to realize that, maybe without even knowing it consciously, but
> knowing it in the deepest way. If someone will let me do this, I can deal
> with a few annoying people along the way.
>
> Catherine
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