233 Sunset Avenue, Dallas Texas This is the building Bart and I still covet. This rendering is a recent rendition illustrating a cleaned up facade of a 2-tenant building. If you have followed along (think 2013), I've sketched this out before. Here is another rendition. I guess you can call this my passion for today!
This was a concept wielded at me this evening as I spoke with a fellow Dallas architect. He claimed his firm would only ever consider hiring folks for positions that fit their "passion".
Really? I love that but who has the luxury of being able to wake up each morning and focus on something that is purely their true passion. And is there just one?
The same each day?
Does one not find pleasure in multiple facets of their everyday life?
Perhaps it is just me. I'm continually go back to the analogy of the "black and white". Great and beautifully architectural in design....but I SEE GREY! I have never been able to land on a definitive of any concept, argument, or theory (quite literally, after taking those personality quizzes, leadership exercises, etc, my results are always square in the middle of the group's extremes). Hence, I can usually argue both sides of any argument.
Personally, I refer to this as the "middle child syndrome". I've always been able to be diplomatic between opposing sides.
So for someone to demand that I declare my "Passion" is futile. I see all sides, all options and can never choose just one. Perhaps that is my choice. Me. I choose to follow "with passion" my exploratory, indecisive (at times by not always), and my confident and stubborn approach to life, love, design, and architecture.
Who says you can't have it all? Not me.
Really? I love that but who has the luxury of being able to wake up each morning and focus on something that is purely their true passion. And is there just one?
The same each day?
Does one not find pleasure in multiple facets of their everyday life?
Perhaps it is just me. I'm continually go back to the analogy of the "black and white". Great and beautifully architectural in design....but I SEE GREY! I have never been able to land on a definitive of any concept, argument, or theory (quite literally, after taking those personality quizzes, leadership exercises, etc, my results are always square in the middle of the group's extremes). Hence, I can usually argue both sides of any argument.
Personally, I refer to this as the "middle child syndrome". I've always been able to be diplomatic between opposing sides.
So for someone to demand that I declare my "Passion" is futile. I see all sides, all options and can never choose just one. Perhaps that is my choice. Me. I choose to follow "with passion" my exploratory, indecisive (at times by not always), and my confident and stubborn approach to life, love, design, and architecture.
Who says you can't have it all? Not me.