{"id":387,"date":"2009-01-16T21:40:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2009-01-16T21:40:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T12:40:40","slug":"thoughts-on-the-process-of-architecture-and-being-an-architect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the process of architecture and being an architect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts on the process of architecture and being an architect:<\/p>\n<p><strong>On talent:<\/strong> not to be confused with success,<br \/>\n<strong> On professionalism:<\/strong> not a means to an end,<br \/>\n<strong> On motivation:<\/strong> self motivation, what else?<br \/>\n<strong> On the size of the company<\/strong> (I get asked this one a lot): size matters only when making love but size will not guarantee an orgasm,<br \/>\n<strong> On the choice of a democratic or autocratic process:<\/strong> there is no middle way,<br \/>\n<strong> On money:<\/strong> the ultimate art,<br \/>\n<strong> On competition:<\/strong> always deadly, whether too much or too little,<br \/>\n<strong> On  the use of a concept:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0practice safe design, always use a concept,<br \/>\n<strong> On analogy as a source for inspiration:<\/strong> can be as deadly as sleeping with a rattle snake,<br \/>\n<strong> On beauty<\/strong>: architecture&#8217;s most worn-out crutch,<br \/>\n<strong> On integrity<\/strong>: do we need to choose between being a high class prostitute or a crack whore?<br \/>\n<strong> On effort:<\/strong> it always takes more,<br \/>\n<strong> On good or bad design:<\/strong> the thought itself will lead to the ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts on the process of architecture and being an architect: On talent: not to be confused with success, On professionalism: not a means to an end, On motivation: self motivation, what else? On the size of the company (I get asked this one a lot): size matters only when making love but size will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}