Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.
Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.
My dad is a builder, and my mum's a nurse. They're just very normal people.
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