An Architect Aims for Creativity and Discovers Writing
To refine her skills as an architect, Nicole Voss went searching for the meaning of creativity. What she found was writing.
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Nicole Voss is an Architect, climate activist, and now a writer. She works as an Associate Principal and the Director of Sustainability at isgenuity, a mission-driven architectural firm. Nicole lives in Boston with her partner and their two over-attached cats.
Creativity is the Human Condition
Throughout the majority of humanity’s existence, creativity has been regarded as a mystical enigma. Architect and architecture critic Robert Furneaux Jordan asserted that “to comprehend [creativity] fully would be to be God. We can never comprehend God.” Thanks to this prevailing opinion, it wasn’t until the late 1940s that the study of creativity even started down the path toward legitimacy. In the seven decades since, the psychological and neurological basis of creativity has been fully extracted from the occult and shown to be ingrained in our species.