ABSTRACT
I found it difficult learning to do architecture. Many people do. Initially it can be like asking your brain to do something for which it has no frame of reference. The learning skills developed in school, mainly using words and numbers, do not prepare the brain for the particular challenges of architectural design. And yet, at the same time, it feels as if the skill of architectural design is one that is innate; and that the traditional focus in school on subjects that are studied through language and mathematics allows it to atrophy, submerging it beneath so much knowledge. The trick in beginning to do architecture is to wake up that innate skill; to revive that childhood fascination with making camp-fires in the woods, digging pits to sit in on the beach, making dens under tables and up trees.
