Today, one of my colleagues arrived at the office with great news: she is pregnant.
Immediately, she approached me with all her plans to refurbish the spare bedroom and turn it into the baby’s future room.
We talked about colours, textures and lots of different ideas… She is so excited and yet quite anxious prompting her to ask many questions.
Matilda is NOT going to buy any Decco Magazines because she knows that she’s very good at visualizing spaces… as a child she always wanted to be an architect…she said to me that her “aim won’t be to decorate a room, but to create a new space for her baby”… that is what a real architect would do!
A couple of hours later around lunchtime, we met in the kitchen and had a cup of tea, our conversation returned to the forthcoming pregnancy and the baby`s room.
After a short while I said: Matilda please, forget about architecture (the real one and the decorative one too)… Focus on you! You are the architecture right now, you are biological architecture. You are creating this new space in your body. A super eco-friendly space, full of perfect colours and textures… with great insulation, very protective radar and an extraordinary communication system…
Think about it! Every single woman has architecture in herself. May be because the house is the most basic unit cell of architecture… and a woman is a home, the first home!
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