The story looked so good.
But, the reality was a very different thing. Unskilled workers making more money for executing the work that us, the architects, did for the technicians to execute.
The story wasn't as we were told that it would be.
So, the economy's soft landing arrived, so softly that suddenly it became a major crash, without even noticing it or ,what it worse, even being mentally ready for the big changes. The architects run out of work and incomes and the workers stayed likewise with no work but with salary, from the unemployment assistance, something that is generally away for an architect or a designer, or just anybody who is self-employed.
The story kept having no sense.
Given this new context, jobless and the consequent free time, sometimes gives you an opportunity to think and rethink your vital situation, which under an accelerate routine, you don't use to do. The conclusion was, nothing revealing , that you always need to keep on your education. Although it's something well known, it's not always assumed as natural. As nothing will be the same, I decided to train myself at the field I believe it will be fundamental in a short term, in fact it is already: Parametric and digital design. I studied a Master of Advanced Design and Digital Architecture at Elisava School and that opened a new world full of diverse possibilities of how to approach our profession in a very different way of what I had being until then.
And this is how Rome arrived. In Fuksas they were looking for people with this kind of skills so through the master they contacted me. I decided to take the risk. A new city with a lot to learn from, a new language to speak and a great place to taste the Italian great gastronomy.
Thanks crisis.
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