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为什么会对未来充满迷茫

噢,容我在我的来福胶泥系列中插入这篇小小的感慨文吧。刚刚一口气读完了汉宝德先生那本《给青年建筑师的信》,有一些困惑自己很久的问题又开始变得更加困惑起来。

最近几天一直热衷于翻阅各大学校的建筑景观规划系网页,也终于开始对自己以后的路开始有了迷惑和担心。汉宝德先生说,建筑师应该有梦想,可我从来没想够成为什么大家,以前也只是想的,什么时候可以念个学位回来到学校发考题,继续过着有寒暑假,可以旅游的生活。结果,现在真的到开始选校,选择自己今后的路的时候,就突然变得迷茫起来了。

第一个原因是,你得决定接下来几年生活在什么地方。这个选择其实不是那么容易做的。我一度自认为是一个喜欢体验的人,所以一直觉得,不管是哪里的生活,体验一下都是不错的。也许是因为本科的学校环境不好,导致我多年都沉浸在痛苦的状态中,不想MS或者以后的日子继续这样,所以我想还是得去我想去到的地方,若是不想去,不如哪里都不去。

第二个原因是,我还没想好,我以后要做什么。

从AA回来后我对infrastructural planning方向的landscape表示了很大的兴趣,我想做跟urban design接近一点,带一点transpotation planning性质的landscape。有兴趣是好事,可是太具象了其实不好。比如我现在,因为喜欢的方向很窄,而landscape的专业设置又极其混乱。比如有的学校是在LA底下的,有的在urban planning下面,还有的在什么civil planning或者叫什么sustanible development底下,诸如此类。而名称代表的学习方向也很乱。我想要偏设计和规划的,但是不乏一些偏理论的。总之信息收集起来极其困难就是了,给DIY增大了很多难度。当然,这种事情交给中介,他们也帮你办不好。

另外,AA回来以后我着实对Digital的设计着迷了一阵,现在好像又开始变得清醒了。其实Housen说的一开始就很有道理,那些东西只是技术,不能沉溺其中,而丢失最本初的设计理想。其实AA和Columbia U那些在Digital做的很好的学校我是从来没想过的,一是我觉得申请不到,觉得人家不会要我。二是就算申请到了我也读不起。原本很简单的想,求包养,哪个学校包养我我就去哪里,可现在终于发现一切不是那么简单的。我喜欢的digital方向在landscape architecture里运用得其实也很少,毕竟digital还是一个比较新的方向,而越潮的学校,就越好,那就意味着越贵。何况,我完全找不到自己的优势所在。

然后前几天偶像麦突然点醒我,说,既然是这么烧钱的MS,为什么不去烧个赚钱的。与此同时,另外一个在Columbia U的妞给我指明了一条看上去前景光明的路。Real Estate,话说我以前真的不知道除了MBA底下的Real estate方向还有个MSRED,而MSRED现在在国内被认可的程度其实也很低,因为中国的开发商都不认老外的MSRED。虽然MSRED在美国的就业不错,但若是回国发展,这好像也是个不归的坑。然后RED的申请也不是那么简单。好学校的MSRED认证率高,但是很难申请。而且一般都要求工作经历,如果真的想跳这个坑,毕业了应该不要着急申请而应该先去工作几年。可是这么一来,事情就更复杂了。

这样想的另外一个原因是,我喜欢跟人打交道的事情,而不是图纸。我不想一辈子在设计事务所画设计图,出效果图。可如果在国外就业,靠communication吃饭的外国人应该是很难的,就算是economics或者FE出来的学生,大部分也都是在华尔街做技术活的那种。不过苗说,工作都是跟人打交道,没有仅仅画图那么简单。可是我担心我做不好,或者一些不堪的事实直接打击了我,也许我并不适合做设计师。但是今天看汉宝德的书,他又说,有兴趣就是最好的。我着实有兴趣,而且他提出的特质,有空间感,又横向思维能力,我觉得我也有。但是我总觉得我更适合跟人打交道的事情。

所以我最大的困扰就是,现在怎么做。

不要想太多,动手去做就行了。就像在AA的时候,Bittor总是跟我说,U r thinking too much! Just do it!可是当你没有方向的时候,你真的不知道你应该做什么。我以前真的觉得就是很简单的找个学校的MLA,申请了给点钱就去。但是现在真的要决定去哪里,怎么去的时候,发现真的不是那么简单。出来做什么,其实也很重要,以后的路怎么走,现在的每一步都很关键。

今天看《再见夏天》,看到里面那个残破的五一广场,我真的很心疼。如果我是规划师,我一定不会让这样一块充满回忆的地方,变成废墟,或者更新生活的牺牲品。有的东西,时间久了,应该保留,而不是拆除或者替换。

每一种选择都有自己的理由,可是现在,在这样的十字路口,我终于知道迷茫是什么滋味了。没方向,也没有自信。不知道哪一条路可以走,不知道走下去是怎么样。到处都是坑,真的不能随便跳。

Reading the Art of Survival

The Art of Survival was put forwared by Yu Kongjian, this book is just a paper of him and I got this paper accidently.

He put forwarded the landscape architect should be a tool for find the Land of Peach Blossoms. I just read a little part of this paper, but I did agree with some points of view in his paper. Even though the Land of peach blossoms landscape is an excellent aspect of the art of landscape architecture, but I cannot aspect his views that  the gardening art in Chinese history which used ornaments, false rockery,ect. is nothing more than accelerating the decline of the feudalist Chinese empire and the art of garderning is no more the art of foot binding which was so much appreciated by the emoerors and nobles.

“The land of peach bloosoms by an artist depicting the Grand View Garden built in the 1600s in China’s last fedudalist dynastiy, the Qing. It was named “Garden of a Thousand Gardens”. The basic model for each of individual gardens was “Land of Peach Blssoms”, which contained vills, pavillions and bridges, exotic flowers, strangely formed rockey, and was surrounded by manmade hills. What was missing in this phony Land of Peach Blossoms was authentic productive fields and natural process.”

The realistic conditions decided that we cannot treasure such ast of survial but it doesnot means that we did not appreciate the real vernacular landscape of Land of Peach Blossms. This art of survival belong to the lower culture, no matter how beatufil natural environment they live in, the basic needs of them cannot be guaranteed. But today, even though the obligation of landscape architect is to find a way of modern people to get into the new land peach of blossoms, but the innate characters of this landscape scnery is totally different from the natural people who is live in the villages. When the people in the mordern cities have enough garatee for their future, they started to pursur the basic human nature needs, but not the basic human needs for survial.

苏州园林景观 

And, the paper made an arbitary conclusion that the art of gardening is no more than the art of binding. My personal phlilosophy of this issue is that the gardening art is surely the essence of Chinese history, not the natural living style–the land of peach blossom living style. Because this living style, even though it was created for the emperors and the nobles, but these gardening art is created to use the wisdom of Chinese. It is artifacted, and it is created, not nature. The life style like the land of peach blossom in the book is not reliable for the realistic conditions, people desire for this living style is not relistic.

As a landscape designer, or the future landscape designer(like me^^), we should find the essence of both the garderning art and the nature life-style of china. Even though the nature life-style like the land of peach serves as the basic art of survial and the human nature needs, but the methods of garderning art provide us a path to get into the colorful landscape architecture world.