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I do what I know how to do, and I also try to do things that I don’t know how to do. A few years ago, when I was quite insecure and was trying to find myself a style, my attitude was ‘praetorian’, rather black and white. But not today,. Today I immerse myself in trying to research new options, trying out different things. That means taking risks with things over which I have no mastery over. It is really hard work. I research something, and once I’ve tried it out and taested it, I might reject it and look for something else. I get quite consumed by it all. That didn’t used to happen. Maybe this search has something to do with a complex about getting old before my time. Too old for certain things and too young to give up others. That’s a contradiction, isn’t it? But you must bear in mind that I started off very young, and that the majority of those of my generation are only just beginning to get commissions now, at my age.
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