Hello. I’m an architect.
I often feel misunderstood. I’m usually cast as the aloof, artistic type, standing at the corner of the room, staring out the window at some distance church steeples. I appear to know complicated and important items. I appear cool and collected on the outside, wearing my perfectly tailored black turtleneck sweater at the middle of July. But on the inside? Well, not so much cool and collected. I can be hard to approach. I can be difficult to talk to. And if you do spend time together with me, I can be impossible to understand. I can be esoteric. I can be obtuse. I’m impatient. I have a problem.
So I’ve started giving calling cards out to people at parties, to break the ice. This way, people will know how to talk to me. These cards would be the equivalent to an architect ID tag. If I’ve drifted off to my ideas and I’m unable (or unwilling) to talk for myself, I can just show you my calling card, and then you’ll know I’m severely allergic to small talk.
And we can just skip it and chat about Prague.
Jody Brown Architecture, pllc
Thank gawd for Ikea.
Pllc, Jody Brown Architecture
Unless it is sexy. Then I wear black.
Jody Brown Architecture, pllc
[Jody shuffles feet uncomfortably.]
Jody Brown Architecture, pllc
OK, this one’s not fair, really. Architecture is one of the few professions that I can think of where you are likely to have a broad knowledge of multiple fields. Architecture is part art, science, engineering, sociology, economics, politics, ecology, engineering, psychology and so on. We can not know everything. We all know just a bit about what, by coaching. This is most likely why I’m anxious talking to you. You believe I know what I’m talking about. However, I do not.
Jody Brown Architecture, pllc
Please , never let an architect pick your dining room seats. They’ll be beautiful but uncomfortable and costly.
Jody Brown Architecture, pllc
Jody Brown Architecture, pllc
Mainly because less requires more time.
Jody Brown Architecture, pllc
I almost couldn’t create this picture. It hurts my head.
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