“There are no ideas but in things”

—William Carlos Williams, 1927

Architecture occurs at the site of conflicting desires: where the desire for view and natural light conflicts with the responsibility to protect from the sun, where the desire for lightness conflicts with the requirements for structure, where the desire for mystery conflicts with appeal for pragmatism, where the desire for connection conflicts with the conditions of privacy, and where the desire for permanence conflicts with the aspiration for serendipity. These conflicts are a catalyst for design and in this context, one might say that as architects we are looking for trouble.