December 28, 2005
What I learned about design from my parents:
What I learned about design from my parents:
You can dream about rebuilding your grandfather's cabin in the woods when you retire. You can save for your entire adult life the money it will take to build it. You can schedule your retirement pay, military pension, and bank stock to help seal the leaks on your pipe dream. You can have folders of building examples, material examples, and floorplans and elevations on grid paper. You can even have those folders color coded and labeled. You can subscribe to log home construction magazines and tear out your favorite pages. You can calculate board feet of lumber, cubic feet of concrete, and consider south facing sun during the winter months. You can discuss with your friends, family, and professionals. You can plan, and write, and propose, and draft, and sketch, and write, for three years of your life. You can even turn your plans and writings and proposals and drafts and sketeches into 3-D renderings (if you have friends like Mugur).
but in in the end, descisons are made in thin air, standing at the corner of a the foundation of an already torn down cabin, 3 days from retirement, while pointing and speaking in simple words with heavy reliance of hand gestures in the driveway by the tailgate of a pickup truck while the sun sets below the treeline.
