THE TUG-OF-WAR BETWEEN COMPROMISE AND MEDIATION
First Encounter
It was around when I turned forty. When I opened the office, I tried to receive an order from my small studio with a desk and a computer. This was nine years ago. When I first started out, I was facing an uncertain future. Now, the world changes so fast, and many architects find their way and become independent earlier and earlier, when they enter their thirties. The atmosphere at my time was quite different.
Competitions were all we had to get projects outside the boundaries of senior level commissions. We had never experienced public construction competitions and were thrown into this new world with bare hands. It was not easy to undertake private sector commissions with nothing in our portfolio. However, the contests without any career limitations offered us design challenges and was almost our only hope for survival.
Like many newbies, we managed to win one or two small projects following many failed pitches.
The first public project was
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