In her poem Three Oddest Words, Wislawa Szymborska, a Nobel Prize poet from Poland, says, “...When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past.” This line embodies how I think about the future. The world is moving so quickly that looking back is the trick rather than looking forward to see what is coming next. For instance, as I look back in my short career alone, I’ve been taught by architects who drew with ink on linen. the media shifted to drawing by hand on mylar to migrating a 2D line into a computer to literally modeling a building, embedded with all the systems. It’s an incredible progression.

The time traditional hand drawing took, afforded one to think — deeply — and that time has all but been eliminated now that we are required to make decisions about how to document a project so early in the process. There has to be an intention to design all the way through the documentation. Much like Yamasaki’s office, detailing is design which can take that pressure off the early stages and really allow the idea to mature naturally- going back to the intention of putting down a line (why) rather than just using that line to document (what).

I stand ready to evolve. This intentional expansion has broadened my ability to create thought leadership and design leadership, in this fast paced world.