It takes a lot of time and lot of experience to get good, really good, at what you do. Add a little inspiration to all that and watch things shine.
Most things that we identify as talents are actually skills: you can learn them, you can practice them, you can be tested. You can keep getting better at them.
A lot of architecture is that way. Many years of education, training, and experience can add up to competency, knowledge, expertise. Good things, no doubt.
But architecture is also very broad. It spans craft, art, structure, environment, comfort, energy. At its very best it engages our spirits and begins to transcend materiality. The philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe aptly described architecture as “frozen music”.
In the world of architecture there are buildings and there are works of art and there is a spectrum of possibilities in between.
When those things that you can learn are conjured with intellect, insight and inspiration, a specialness moves the mundane a little closer to the delightful.
Strive to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.