It’s been awhile since I had one of those nights where I lie in bed streaming thoughts of current events or things that need to get done long enough before I decide to give up on sleep. Well tonight, although it is just 23:40 I already have been giving up. These days going to sleep between 22-23 is great expecting to be up shortly after.

As a productive thought I will post one of the most influential architect that makes my knees buckle, Louis Kahn. If he were still alive I would do anything to work for him. He was a respectable, architectural genius.

Most people, if asked what they thought of architecture, would reply “it’s so cool”. What they will never see and each architect should, is that we have a social economic and political obligation and responsibility to create, forge and change communities. Louis Kahn saw through that. He died in debt for the sake of his obligation. I know this is all noble or some may say bull, but I couldn’t live with myself knowing that in the power of architecture lies a chain reaction to the way people will view, treat and react to a street, city or country.

Many architects will disagree with my views and settle on the more superficial and therefore affordable approach: build private home for the rich, renovate someones store or kitchen, etc. and of course someone will have to do that. But what happens to the job that requires understanding of the community as a whole. How one, two, three buildings could change a neighborhood.

I want to find that! I believe there is a level of morality that is required for making those decisions. Only issue, it has to become real, it has to mean something in the real world and not only as a sentence in this blog.

tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

I AM TOTALLY INHUMAN

It is not easy figuring out which way to open up to something much more vast than a person, the world wide web. In some ways it is kind of easier, like writing a diary except: 1. auto-spelling!!! 2. I have been overwriting the past few sentences about four times and as a result 3. “tempering” with the flow of my thoughts.

In any case, here I am, an architecture graduate who immigrated to the US in 2003. I always knew that I will be an architect one day. There are slight variations of how and why it all came about but bottom line it was meant to be. You could say my “determinacy” (as my husband said) was the main cause to where I am today. But ultimately there were things on the road that helped me forge this decision.

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First time Yoni (4 months) went to the park!