Things are the same. Even different things are the same in their very basic way. The world goes round and the sun rises daily.
Working for an architecture company is like working for a theatre company. Projects come in, need working on and go on stage when they’re finished. The company goes round.
In architectural lighting, the roll goes like this. A project comes in, you present the options - direct and indirect lighting, coves and chandeliers – to argue on at the meeting. Then you calculate the number of downlights (uplights, cove lights, whatever you agreed on at the meeting) needed, make sure it’s the 200lux and then draw the thing clean to be sent to the building site. And in comes another project.
Most of it never wants to be anything special. Making a mediocre drama look different would be a bother and pain in the neck to the whole theatre crew. Making an office cafeteria look a piece of art would need the extra time and money that nobody has.
This is the way when you cannot choose your projects. You just do what you’re expected to do. Jumping up and down, whining, I wanna do something different here – doesn’t help. Shut up, they just want the downlights.
