>> I really like the balances, the ability
to use my creative side and
my logical rational side.
Architecture is really kind of an art
form so there's a lot of creativity.
There's never one solution.
You're taking a set of constraints,
whether that be a function of a building,
the amount of money someone has to spend
or sometimes laws that govern the way
that buildings have to be put together.
And use those to create a different set
of criteria on how this building is going
to be used coming up with an ultimate solution
that works both functionally but as a space,
a building, something that people
are going to be able to look at
and appreciate whether they know really
what into the creation of it or not.
One thing architecture is not a field where
you get a lot of instant gratification.
The design of a house, for example,
can take three, four, five, six months.
Construction could take a little over a year.
Other types of projects that I've worked on in
my career have taken sometimes up to five years
from that first time you
put the first pen to paper
until the time you're actually
at a grand opening ceremony.
So it's something where, even though
there are milestones along the way,
the first time that you get to go out to
the job site and see where they dug the hole
where the building's going to be, the first
time you get to walk around the building
when it's halfway through construction,
the ultimate gratification
can be years and years away.
So it does require a lot of patience.