Was able to flip through the August issue of Town & Country magazine while waiting for my dental appointment yesterday, and had just enough time to jot down Five Lessons From Bonneville: What SpeedWeek on the Salt Flats teaches Tom Kundig.
Tom Kundig is one of America's greatest architects, and uses the vast open flatness of the Bonneville Salt Flats as inspiration and creative fodder for his award-winning work. Here is what it teaches him:
1. Architecture isn't about buildings; it's about the landscape.
2. The beauty of a thing is the function of a thing: a hot rod defines what it does.
3. The vastness is a reminder of how insignificant we are. We're a small pimple on the planet!
4. It's all about the space, not the things. The true test of architecture is how you feel -- which is the space.
5. I love the loneliness of it. It can make us modest in what we do as architects.
I loved his lessons because, deep down, we're all architects. We're architects of our lives, our goals, and our dreams.
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