Feel

feelings are basically anything non-verbal you can access through introspection. A lot of this corresponds to actually physical sensations in your body….

So, to create something truly alive and nourishing, we must be willing to immerse ourselves in the rich, fertile soil of our own humanity – the depths of our emotions, experiences, and connections to the world around us.

It was then I realised architecture is not about creating structures that are aesthetically pleasing or merely functional: it’s about designing spaces that evoke emotion and resonate with the human spirit. The Farnsworth House may have been a triumph of modernist design, but it lacked the warmth and humanity architecture should embody.

Just as someone with iron deficiency anemia craves ice (“pica”), I crave texture.