In a neat article that shows the wide-ranging value of an architectural education, an architecture school graduate—who had become a documentary film maker—created a documentary focusing on two English architects who purchased an old lifeboat and converted it into a robust cabin cruiser, which they used to explore the waterways surrounding Norway.
Concluding the article, the filmmaker, Jonny Campbell, made the following profound observation about creativity: “This brings to mind something that an architecture tutor said to us in the first days of architecture school, which was ‘constraint is the catalyst of creativity.’ As the design professions increasingly question how they operate in a world of finite resources, I think it is important to carry forward a sense that constraint and scarcity, when coupled with the right approach to design, can result in projects of great value and richness.”