Loving Architecture...

They say, Architecture is a life-long profession, once you got involved in the business you never go out.

I say as a student that's true. Since the day we got admitted in the major, our lives have embraced Architecture, we have coped with its life style and with the mission we hold to do. We even have become addicted to Architecture!

But I say - as a lover of Architecture – our passion to architecture is enough to be the reason to get us working. This passion is not shared only by students, but also by those who have been giving their souls to their love for decades.

Architects are those who don't give up, don't quit, and don't retire.
They even broaden up new ways for themselves to keep designing. The flame of designing will never put out for them until they pass away.

"I want to spend whatever time I have left working" said the Chinese-American architect IM Pei.
IM Pie was born in 1917, now he is 92 years old, although he retired from his
firm but still engaged in his sons'.

In 2006 he designed the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC.
He also designed in 2007 the Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar.
And most recently he designed Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California

He is known for his notable designs of the Louvre Pyramid and China bank tower.

Another legend of architecture considered the greatest living architect on the planet, the 102-year-old Oscar Niemeyer, was born in 1907 in Brazil.

"Nobody can fault Mr. Niemeyer for his desire to keep working; that his enthusiasm is undimmed at the age of 100 is cause for awe." – The New York Times at Oscar Niemeyer's 100th birthday.

Oscar Niemeyer is a paradigm of inspiration and devotion to architecture; he is a role model as an architecture lover. Age is not a matter to him to keep on working and designing, he even got married for the second time at the age of 99 from his longtime assistant Vera Lúcia Cabreira.

His latest project Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre is currently under construction in Spain, along to other sculptural works in Brazil.

These two architects in their late age along to many others know exactly how to work hard, how to be devoted and mostly, how to love architecture.


Peace,,,