I was given just the right present and voice for being elected to Board of Directors at Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. I am in total unison with the statement. Big shoes to "Chase."

Late John Chase, an urban designer and an author coined the above phrase in 1989 and nothing stands as fresh as the meaning behind it except what he represented with vegetarian bar, now turned into various other consumer architecture and "texture" craft. As architects, our mission must expand beyond the physical characteristics of what constitutes designed object into larger picture of architecture where our profession concerns itself with larger issues of the city, accessibility for all to every part of the metropolis, fair housing for working class and a transparent decision making concerning the built environment, to name a few. 

We need to apply this kind of thinking to our education and spread to word to communities around us. Otherwise, we will be forever waiting for that phone call for the next room addition some people wants to do just like they saw on television as our main body of work as a profession.

Every day we must pass the word that our daily experience of the world involves around buildings, open spaces, communities, schools, hospitals, housing, and pretty much everything else we design as architects.

This is where we start to heal architecture.