Architects sometimes surprise us with their creativity and sometimes with their characters. There are some that we call themselves geniuses today that have some standard features. We do not know if anyone with these qualities would be an absolute genius. However, we know that many of these features are also present in today’s architects. Here are those unique features of architects.
Sleeping Little
Many famous architects sleep very little from their statements or their private notebooks. Even Leonardo Da Vinci was one of them. Getting little sleep is often associated with high intelligence. But when it comes to architecture, many architects often don’t even have enough time to devote to a long rest.
Different Working Hours
As a result of less sleep, architects can have different working hours than everyone else. For example, when many people are asleep, the night time can be the beginning of the day for an architect. Such unorthodox routines are entirely every day among people who need to remain productive at all times. Since their creativity is the capital of these people, they don’t want to spend the most productive hours asleep because most do so.
Strange Routines
Creative minds are always surprising. Sometimes they can even be strange. Architects also have reasons that have no problem with creativity. That’s why many people may have routines and behaviors that would be strange. For example, did you know that the Eames couple obliges every new employee to their company to spend a day in their playful tower? The couple came up with such a solution to observe this new member of the team’s thinking.
Having Opinions From Different Fields
We cannot say that this item is a surprising feature. We can say that it is a feature that a good architect should have. Today, every architect that has gone down in history has based his works on solid foundations. Each of his works has strong philosophical and artistic references. In other words, no matter how strange the structure you see in front of you, it is the product of a serious thought process.
An architect’s ability to filter ideas from centuries and create an aesthetic and functional structure requires knowledge. In other words, the more places an architect feeds himself, the more places he can find his inspiration. Their works seem more realistic.
Obsessions
Although not every architect, we know that many architects whose names we know by heart have some obsessions. The scope of these obsessions can vary, from spying on the users of his constructions (Denise Scott Brown) to using only his furniture (Zaha Hadid) in his home or consuming only one color of food (Luis Barragan).
If we put the psychological side aside, we can say that these obsessions work well in some cases. For example, Mies Van der Rohe has sketched massive structures with glass facades over the years. Although these sketches were criticized as “unbuildable” and “too futuristic” from the very beginning, Rohe did not give up on his experiments with the material, especially glass. In each of his projects, he thought a lot about the material pallet and joining details and pondered on how to bring them together in the closest way to his vision. It has achieved its purpose with the building techniques that have developed over time! When we combined Rohe’s progressive vision with modern technology, structures that went into the history of contemporary architecture emerged.