The Path Is Made By Walking On It

All creative ventures require adaptability, spontaneity and improv

“Just say YES and you’ll figure it out afterwards.” — Tina Fey

Back in the late 1990s, in New York City, there lived a world-class architect who had just spent the last two years of his life designing and building what many people were claiming to be the best inner city housing project ever conceived.

Although the world stood up and took notice, the architect’s friends were totally baffled why a man of his stature would have taken on such a seemingly mundane project.

After all, this was a man who had designed some of the world’s finest museums. This was a man who had designed more than 20 celebrity mansions and a yacht club on the French Riviera. Why he had chosen to design an inner city housing project was absolutely inconceivable to them.

But not to him.

As the son of immigrant parents, he had grown up in a two-room, cold water flat. His bedroom was actually the hallway. He had no TV. In college, he had to work two jobs to pay his tuition…