Life Work

Encouraging words from Michael Rotondi's Summer Studio, entitled Life Work:

"Now is a time of faith and fear.
The world you are about to inherit is not the one you had envisioned.
The conflict of generations is upon you, and you are ready.
Things have changed more than you could have imagined and you now have to find comfort in uncertainty.

No problem you are still young enough to consider uncertainty a friend.
Life has become a real adventure again and now,
you have the opportunity to invent your own life.
There are none to inherit.

So [You] this studio will attempt to answer the questions:

“is it possible to invent a project, a life, and a society?”
“is it possible to be a leader without any followers?”
“is it possible to have a long term vision in a short cycle world?”
“is it possible to do good and do well, simultaneously?”
“is it possible to find an architectural equivalent?” "

- Michael Rotondi

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李宏彦

1.做自己喜歡做的事

2.做自己最擅長的事

3.專注到底

- 李宏彦, Baidu Co-Founder

Memories...

Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis(2001) ending + Ray Charles' classic.

Dedication

"When I was talking about providing an alternative way of making architecture, I want to address that to the students. What it means is that you don't have to be a slave in a corporate office, a groupie of a celebrity architect because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil, and the desire to make architecture."

- Raimund Abraham, last words of his lecture at Sci-arc before he died from a car accident hours after.