Making Spaces Places

In college I had a favorite Professor.
He made us think.
Many instructors fail in that area.

I spent my last semester in Italy. We kept a notebook and worked at creating "Rules" for "how to create spaces".

Italy is a great research lab.

Anyone can make a room or an entry or a building.
But making that room or entry or building Special, feel familiar, a place you might want to remember or spend time in requires a "vocabulary" of parts.

Just as a car needs wheels and an engine and doors and seats to be recognized as a "car", so does great architecture need a collection of parts to make it Great.

There's a reason millions of people travel to the old villages of Europe.
They organically grew, touched and were created by the people who lived there.
Human scale. Human touch.

The 'textbook ' we used is " A pattern Language" which I picked up and began reading for the first time in 15 years. I want to use it to Make our House one of those special places.
This company and the opportunity to design, has re awakened in me the desire to make Great things.
To do more than just collect a paycheck.
It's hard work.