Each of us chooses his career for various reasons: future prospects, life models, financial stability, continuing family business or just to stay with college students.
I had the chance to follow my way in life by relying on my passions and less on the above listed criteria. Nearly 20 years ago I did not know what architecture means beyond design, geometry in space, mathematics, and physics.
With every step we took on this road, I began to learn that architecture is not essentially about buildings, but about people who spend their time in them. A tough, but at the same time joyous road. The 7 hours spent in the train to go to a renowned professor will always be remembered with my colleagues with whom I share the same experience or with the aliens who became my traveling buddy. These roads were not just about technical drawing and admission to architecture, but about all that time spent among the people I saw perhaps for the first time and last time.That’s how I started to understand how different we are each of us, how special and beautiful, but also that we have totally different needs.
Architecture taught me both disappointment and how to turn an apparent failure into the best thing for me when I realized that my place was not in Bucharest, and that God had put something else apart for me. And all six years of college helped me to understand that the surrounding world is subjective and critical by nature, and that every man has his role in my life, a more gentle or tough teacher, but so important in my evolution as a man and as a professional. Last but not least, the period of my studies enriched me with beautiful people, my friends for life, with whom I share even unforgettable moments.
All the while, with all the ups and downs, as in any trip, I had some patience before I came to my place, which I did not have the slightest idea of how it looks or is called. I just felt that someday I would find it and the seeds planted years ago would take strong roots for everything my tree gave to others: the foliage of a life full of the flowers of creativity and the fruits of total dedication and involvement.
Thus, after years of work in architectural design, then in interior design and furnishing concept, began to take on my clearer outlook. To gather a team of professionals, people with whom to share the same value system and with which to work with love, was the first step in translating this dream into reality. The thing that happened in early 2017. The second, and I think the most difficult step, was to work together as a team, dividing not only the moments of glory, but also learning to support each other at a moment’s notice of balance, inherent in any evolutionary process of maturation and refinement. This step, I think, will never end, as long as we do not stop learning and constantly growing.
And here we are, patiently, even to this day, when, finally, I can give a name to the place where I sat. ACOLADA is the result of our teamwork and the image of my dream from my youth when I was traveling by train on my way to my architectural destiny.
Text: Andreea Moisa, architect