This 21st June, the world will be celebrating Father's Day to honor the fathers around the world and their contribution to their children's lives.
To celebrate Father's Day 2020, eight of the most prominent designers and architects shared with Dwell.com's readers the life lessons they learned from their dads and how it applies to their work today.
Here are some of those architects and designers and the inspiring stories they shared about their father.
Anne-Marie Armstrong
Anna-Marie Armstrong is a co-founder of AAmp Studio - an interdisciplinary design and an architect studio based in Toronto and Los Angeles.
Armstrong said that from her father, Thomas Armstrong, she learned to keep exploring, look for an elegant solution, and be open to change. Her father loved astronomy, she said, and his sense of exploration influenced how she approaches a new design.
His father studied math a university but had to join the family's printing business when Anna-Marie was born. While in his 40s, her father returned to university and finished a computer science degree. He then worked as a software developer before he became an accomplished writer.
Just as how her father was adaptable and flexible, She has grown to appreciate designs that are also adaptable and flexible to the needs of their clients and location constraints.
Jonathan Feldman
Jonathan Feldman is the founding partner and CEO of Feldman Architecture. Before establishing the firm in 2003, Jonathan worked on some feature films and commercials in the 1990s.
His father's love of nature and a commitment to protect the ecology taught Jonathan Feldman to champion sustainable design, never stop learning, and opt for smart storage. Jonathan championed the green initiative when he built his very first project in 2004 using environmentally sensitive materials, and implementing a passive solar design approach and installing skylight with integrated PV cells.
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Kara Greenetz
Kara Greenetz joined SHED Architecture & Design after receiving her Master's Degree from UCLA. Her research project, "Backyard Bi[h]ome," which is an ultra-modern home, was a sensation among the architectural press.
Kara said that among the crucial lessons that she learned from her father, Wilmot "Bill" Moore, were to reuse and repurpose, be efficient with space, and invest in quality. Wilmot, she said, had a knack for reimagining new uses for old items, as well as a foresight to hold onto things that are durable and very functional.
Tei Carpenter
Tei Carpenter is the founder of New York City-based Agency-Agency. She also teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
From her father, James Carpenter, she learned to spend time in nature, forge her own path, and appreciate the craftsmanship. She learned to fish at a young age, she said, because of her father - and they still try to organize a fishing trip at least once a year. That experience as a child helped her develop patience and attentiveness.
She added that her father's medium as an artist is light, which couldn't be easily categorized as art or architecture, so he had to carve out his own path to success. Her father's belief in himself and his work inspired her to be persistent in shaping her own practice as a young architectural designer.
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