Slowing down

One thing I’ve noticed about the artist workflow is that they work at a much slower pace than the average professional, say, an engineer like myself. In engineering, the goal is to get things done as fast and as precisely as humanly possible. That’s not necessarily the case in architecture. There’s an aesthetic consideration that I need to be taken into account, and I’m not really used to doing that. I tend to be the one, I’ve noticed, in my class who finishes first and leaves early. I value my time and I don’t want to waste it decorating a cake, so to speak. 

There’s this artist in my class, or designer I should say, and I don’t think she likes me very much, I’m not sure. We clearly have different design principles. She’s clearly a designer: her products look great. I, on the other hand, got off to a slow start and used an aesthetically undesirable image for my first project that has led me to produce something a little more experimental and abstract. My work doesn’t look great, but it certainly looks like I’ve explored a lot of steps with the software using what I have. The artist mentality is something I will surely need to develop during my time in architecture school, if I do decide to go.