Thoughts on Architecture

If architecture has taught me anything about life, it’s that life thrives when it’s actively fostered, continuously supported, and creatively challenged. 

I believe the same can be said for “learning”. 

When learning is supported, when what is ‘taught is taught’, with a mindset that is as open as that which learning opens - everything flourishes. Of course, the opposite can be true and this is the slippery slope we carefully navigate.

In a curious quote, one that demands rumination, patience and incorporation, G.K. Chesterton writes,

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid.” 

All that is learning is that which encounters the new. 

When a positive framework of nurture and care are implemented, with maintenance and subsistence, giant leaps of self transformation spawn into a state of perpetually taking flight. 

Everything else recedes.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

“The scalpel is the greatest proof of the failure of medicine.” What these words highlight, with astounding precision and generality, is our profound, and interrelated relationship to the world. 

Nothing happens irrespective of everything. 

Learning needs to be taken into consideration - considered the exact same way as an apprentice who observes a master progressively rendering themselves obsolete. 

I believe this applies to life - and if an architecture of life exists, a learning of life, our role is to actively support and serve as a catalyst to these pathways. 

The old adage rings true - if you create the conditions for success, success begets success.