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Drawing #1

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>>>>>A0. Manifesto

I never planed on becoming an architect. I wanted to be fighter pilot like every other small boys, but due to my asthma that never happened. I have never thought of me as being artistic. In school I was good at math and solving things by reason, but my art teacher in school told me that I had a talent in the field of art and that I had to pursue it, whether it would be painting in my spare time or something more. It is nice to have someone believe in you. I think she is the reason why I applied for Aarhus architecture school. I like to paint and create things. I have always been fascinated by interior design, especially lambs and chairs. There is something beautiful about feeling the design physically on your skin while using it, which is probably why I also like fashion. Growing up in Denmark with a father who, like many others, suffers from seasonal depression during the winter due to the lack of sunlight, made light very important to me. Every time we moved we added bigger windows to the house and every wall had to be painted in white in order to maximize the sun coming into the house. Sometimes I thought it went out of hand, like when my father painted the table on the terrace in a shinning white so it was impossible to just look at the table and especially eat there.  

If I try to imagine myself as an architect I am not designing small houses, I am designing great buildings. I guess it is because of my ambition of succeeding, which is not a very good reason for doing something.

This last year at the architecture school I found the working method very unfamiliar. I am not used to express my self through models, sketches and photography. I am used to think a lot, which is not very productive. So I realized that in order to more productive I have to sketch more than I am used to. I like building models but I feel that I am spending too much time on the detail instead of adding more to the project.  

My parents like everything clean, white and minimalistic. I prefer the opposite; I love the renaissance and art nouveau buildings. I feel they are more personal and warm in contrast to the cold and impersonal minimalistic buildings. In school I wrote an assignment about Antonio Gaudí who really fascinates me. I am impressed how the façade of la Sagrada Familia looks indefinable from far away, and when you look closer you can see that not one part of the surface is a clean line.

  

To sum up the above I like working in scale 1:1 and I build models. I want to know more about managing the sunlight and the different effects. I want to design something big and at the same time very detailed. I think that the best way for me to become more productive is to sketch a lot more than I have been used to.