day 41: time, claudio vilarinho

"the fact that each task takes “its time”, or in other words the time we need to be satisfied with its result is a theme we find every day in architecture.
to ensure both the accuracy and the quality of a solution, the need to “loose” time to achieve an idea is felt right from those early days as a student. sometimes this time is twice the time we initially thought we were going to need. “if you think it will take you 2 hours, it is preferable to count on 4″ was often an essential advice. in fact, even the “almost done” regularly turns into “a lot of” work time.
an example of this may be that (only) today we finished the pavilion staircase design that we “thought” we could conclude yesterday, or that some work we wanted to “close” today stayed “incomplete” until monday."

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