You Can't Not to Love

You know that it's true, that it has become a fact, but it is just so difficult to accept it.
"Why?" you asked, "Why does it have to be me?"
"What have I done wrong?"
"Why am I the one that have to suffer?"
The questions keep coming to your head and you, not knowing nothing's wrong, blame yourself for everything.

Why is it so painful to let go of something that you don't even own?
Stubbornness?
Stupidity?
... or what? What can it be?

It's nothing too difficult to realize, some of us just have it more than others.
You care ..., sometimes a little too much. You love and you feel too easily. You're a fool who do not know how to safeguard you heart.
You'll learn, slowly, how to feel less heartache over time. You'll learn, but you can't, deep down in you heart you know it, not to love.

What Architecture Is (Part 3)

This is the 3rd part and the last part of the story, but definitely not the end of Architecture.

I shall keep the story short.

It was 5 days ago I came across the following quotes by George Bernard Shaw:

Life is not about finding yourself,

It's about creating yourself.

Isn't it the same with Architecture?

(the end)

What Architecture Is (Part 2)

The story continues...

When I was in my second year in Architecture,

My curiosity in Architecture rise.

What is Architecture?

I searched but I did not expect to find any answer.

The process of searching itself content.

I once asked my second year tutor, Kenghua,

"What is Architecture?"

He told me the question is not easy to answer.

He told me a story of onion.

"Architecture is like an onion," He said.

"When you first saw it, you would think that it is all about the space.

But as you look deeper, you'll realize that it is only the very first layer of Architecture,

Just like the first layer of an onion.

You'll find as you learn, that Architecture is about the structure,

Because your Architecture has to be stable enough for people to live in.

But that's not really it, isn't it?

Architecture is the materials.

Architecture is the people, the social.

Architecture is art.

As you peel away layer by layer of an onion,

You'll have nothing left.

So Architecture is Nothing."

The conversation was interesting.

I wondered, instead of concluding Architecture is Nothing,

Why can't Architecture be Everything?

I asked my other tutor, Ken, the same question,

"What is Architecture?"

He told me, "Architecture if Life."

I did not quite get it,

And I don't think I still remember what his explanation was.

(to be continued)

What Architecture Is (Part 1)

Here is my little story:

When I was in my first year in Architecture,

I was having a chat with my teacher, his name is Kimnam.

I was really curious (and I am still so) and I asked him:

"What is Architecture?"

Kimnam smiled

Paused for awhile, he answered me:

"I don't know."

Perhaps we really can't define what Architecture is, I think.

Still curious, I asked him again"

"How are we supposed to design if we do not know what Architecture is?"

He frown and said to me:

"That's a very good question.

Even if you have practiced Architecture for 5 years,

You will still find yourself learning something new about Architecture."

That was the end of our conversation.

(to be continue)