You’re never too long an architect to dream. Think back to those free-time sketches before discovering the constraints of budgets, expansion coefficients and insurance premiums: moments when you weren’t too deeply buried under stacks of practising certificates and built-up realities. So, while you wait for those computer updates to load, why not grab a pencil and whimsy up an impossibly tree-d and pond-ed landscape, or a forest-columned office with people carrying their furniture around. Go on. Let roofs sag. Dig a new mould. There are worlds to discover. Snake that building for a kilometre across a lake and lift those walls to invite the water inside.
All a bit fanciful and better get back to the timesheet? There’s no purpose in whimsy, you say. But, wait, this is