02/26/2024
“That’s impossible, you can’t do it” 🙅🏻♀️
How many times have you heard someone tell you that in your life?
You tell someone about your vision.
They tell you that you don’t know what you’re talking about and to go back to the drawing board.👎🏼
In general, as a leader, your job is to think big picture and to find someone in your team who believes in you and can help you realize it.
You’ll always come across naysayers who will make you doubt your skills and decisions, but you owe it to yourself to put in 110% effort in finding the answers you’re looking for before you give up.
Which is why I think Architects are such good problem solvers.
We’re trained to provide multiple design iterations to a design problem.
Even though I don’t practice Architecture anymore, I admire the resilience and creativity that I see in Architects in pushing a design vision.
For example, , an LA-based office, worked closely with a local Dallas precast concrete fabricator to ensure the success of their complicated facade design. Morphosis used their own CNC milling machines to create standardized molds for the fabricators to use as templates.
Typically with a complicated facade pattern, majority of the local fabricators and GCs will say no or say it’s cost-prohibitive. With the Architect (in this case, Morphosis) taking the lead, they’re able to show their vendors that it is fairly simple and cost-effective design to implement.
My take-away - don’t take no for an answer, especially if it’s only the first round. Keep pushing to find ways to support your ideas and convert that no into a “well, duh, of course yes!” 💪🏼
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Images of attending an Architecture conference, Facade+. Getting CEU credits and hearing my talented friends speak,
Also, ran into an old college friend from Architecture school, Andre Abrahamian!
