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Some of you who missed this article from a couple of weeks ago might find it of interest:
When I was younger, I wanted to be an architect. But I’m utterly and absolutely devoid of even the slightest visual talent.
I know. That hasn’t stopped some architects. But it stopped me.
Which reminds me, somehow, of Jimmy Stewart. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in architecture, but never practiced. Instead, Hollywood grabbed him. Later, he commented that the world owed a debt to the movie industry for having spared it the damage that a mediocre architect might have done. I don’t know what he would have been like in architecture, but I’m certainly grateful that he made films. My critics, by contrast, might well wish that I’d gone ahead and devoted my life to designing gas stations.
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