"The most successful architects I observed were also the best storytellers": This is fascinating to me, as a historian--not merely that architects tell stories in order to win competitions, but that their designs tell stories too. Calls to mind a book I like my history students to read: Jonathan Gottschall: *The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human.* Thanks for another great post . . . I mean story.
"The most successful architects I observed were also the best storytellers": This is fascinating to me, as a historian--not merely that architects tell stories in order to win competitions, but that their designs tell stories too. Calls to mind a book I like my history students to read: Jonathan Gottschall: *The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human.* Thanks for another great post . . . I mean story.
Before I got to the end of your writing, I voted for the oak tree.