Last night lecture was pretty good, unexpected. Wolf Prix, I've seen him quite a lot during my stay in Vienna. One of the most jovial character and one who considers fun is architecture.

He told us a story:
30 years ago when I was still in architecture school, my teacher came to us and told us he is a Santa Claus now because he is going to build the BMW headquarter in Munich.
When I received a call from BMW people that I won the project for BMW, I immediately know what to teach my students. I went to school (die angewandte) and told my students that the best lesson you can ever get is patience, who knows one day your building will be standing beside my building the way my building is now standing beside my professor's building.

Being radical is not only thinking radical, but doing radical.


I was in Munich last Spring when BMW welt was still in construction. I thought it was ugly. I don't know what it is but it sits there.

I thought it was the ugliest thing I've ever seen, but I remember every detail of it correctly and I couldn't get it out of my mind.

Lately I've been really bummed out with thesis and studio because there's a self-expectancy to do it the right way for the right result in a quick pace. Moreover, there hasn't been enough time spent privately with the adviser regarding each projects; no guidance, not enough time, no inspiration and no confidence to deal with anything. I'm lost.. and burning out. I feel the only thing I'm really good at after 5 years of education is criticism. Nothing is as easy as it used to be all my life. There's competition, there's the dog eat dog kind of world, even among students. What's worse I'm giving myself pressure... too much pressure

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