Slowly (improving) Vision
We wrote this essay as a continuation to Slowness in 1999 for the publication 2G. During a recent telephone interview, a student asked me to describe “our architectural vision.” The question, asked by a person still in high school was so naïve as to be easily dismissed, yet so profound that I realized it was deserved a thoughtful and considered response. As architects committed to resolving problems of human habitation through built form, most of our thoughts of peering into the future are restricted to such questions as, “How will potential users need their space to function when they move in, or, several years hence, what issues of growth and change might there be? What kind of expansion and use might be expected? Will there be more children? Guests? How much storage in the future? What kind of maintenance will be required? How long will the roof last?” These concerns for