Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia
Academy of Architecture
«Many years ago I was struck by a lecture by the German philosopher Hans Robert Jauss, who maintained that in life … it is important to be prepared. I realised that we must always work hard and that even in the absence of any real prospects, what is important is to be prepared. As we know, the idea of a project pre-exists to some degree the opportunities of time and place, and that makes Jauss’ philosophical suggestion even more useful for us as architects, as it reminds us that preparation is a form of project design» (Francesco Venezia).