David Hu
When David Hu was earning his undergraduate architecture degree in Taiwan, he learned a very important lesson about architecture. But he didn`t learn it in school. He learned it in the nightclubs where he was singing with his band.
"I realized you have to learn how to understand people in order to communicate architecture to them," Hu said. "We`re dealing with people who don`t have a lot of time to think about buildings, so you have to work with them to bring out that interest, that desire. And then maybe you`ll be able to do something that has a special life to it. But dealing with people isn`t a skill they teach us in our training. The ability to listen to people that I picked up in my music days has helped me a lot."
Hu`s concentration on relationships has brought him some of his best work to date, and his ommunication skills have produced some wildly different architecture for the same client, and even for the same client with an almost identical program.
"I realized you have to learn how to understand people in order to communicate architecture to them," Hu said. "We`re dealing with people who don`t have a lot of time to think about buildings, so you have to work with them to bring out that interest, that desire. And then maybe you`ll be able to do something that has a special life to it. But dealing with people isn`t a skill they teach us in our training. The ability to listen to people that I picked up in my music days has helped me a lot."
Hu`s concentration on relationships has brought him some of his best work to date, and his ommunication skills have produced some wildly different architecture for the same client, and even for the same client with an almost identical program.