A quote from Louise Bourgeois

We live on the accumulated ruins of experience.

Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstanding and provide a beautiful context for life’s drama.

Robert Frost said, “An idea is a feat of association.”

So many phenomena of everyday life are directly linked to this process of the brain making sense of the world by creating associations and making memories. This is why asking “What happened to you?” is so important in understanding what’s going on with you now.

Like poetry, mathematics, and music, good memory relies on patterns that simultaneously constrain content and suggest meaning.