Vidal Sassoon: The Architect of Hair

2019-07-23T14:06:00-04:00

“Had I gone to college, I would have definitely been an architect. That would have been my dream.” - Vidal Sassoon

Creative inspiration can come from many places. Our wide-ranging interests come out to play and begin to interact with our core discipline or craft. The architect might love something like painting, producing built offspring cognizant of its two-dimensional parent. Or perhaps, in the reverse, the painter embraces architecture, capturing the dramatic geometries, angles, and curves present in great cities. Why does cross-disciplinary influence appear to be so advantageous within the creative process? It seems to produce extraordinary outcomes. It would be an undertaking to try and provide an empirical response. Rather, this piece is a short story of a man who took his fascination of architecture and used it to revolutionize an industry. He took the formal ideas of architecture, introduced them to the human head, and became an international tycoon.

Radical Curiosity and The Modern Polymath

2019-06-12T12:54:00-04:00

There seems to be a polymathic nature to architects and designers. The modern renaissance man and woman. It’s a quality almost inseparable from our field, is it not? As I thought about this idea, I wondered if it was possible to be an architect and not have broad interests. Can one merely be into architecture?

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Vidal Sassoon: The Architect of Hair

Radical Curiosity and The Modern Polymath