What is the Coffee Shop Architect

The Coffee Shop Architect poses the question for debate . Can we now enjoy the labour of design and the traditional work environment and relocate that to the social cultural spaces of our cities. Designers now have access to many social spaces, laptops and wireless technologies have allowed the human work experience to merge with the cultural social landscapes inhabited by the nomadic design architect already..

The transition has become seamless and desirable  and has allowed the working environments easy transition from that of a corporate confinement to a social freedom and a liberation from the industrial notions of the dark ages.

This can easily be enjoyed by everyone who owns a laptop and ,  independence easily enjoyed with a cup of coffee a few sachets of brown sugar and a wireless connection and now you can  enjoy the moment too, the only ting left to do is to fire your boss.

The potential is huge, you still can be attached to the global communities using Facebook and Skype as tools to connect our virtual offices, while sipping a Cuppa Joe in our favorite coffee shop near the sea, inner city or tropical island.

The next question to be asked
Will these new paradigms of nomadic work behaviors still allow for collaboration, and longevity.

Can the individual now be free of the industrial style work environments that plague the metropolis, with the new age office / drawing board / creative suites easy to zip up in a laptop bag, together with mobile internet.

My belief in the architectural world is  that the  design architects needs to celebrate the the built fabric as much as he needs to design it, he cannot be isolated in an office high up in a building, he needs to enmesh with the culture around him, in order to partake extract and give back. He will never be allowed to inform his design, in a work environment of isolation.

The design architect no longer needs to separate himself from the world in order to design, he can now be embodied  in his experience of design, and make and create whilst sipping a cuppa joe. The essential creative energies and cross cultural energies to flow, while embracing a creative process infused with the aroma of cuban coffee.

Technology allows the Nomadic  mobility of the Architect.

What really excites me as an individual is the ability to so easily pick up and head to the nearest coffee shop open up my laptop and have all the tools at my disposal, to design with sketchup , creative writing using blogger , to design buildings using revit, and not to mention post production  and all at the same time harnessing the communicative technologies of skype and facebook to collaborate with my colleagues across the globe.

We can now sit in a buzzing coffee shop in any city in the world enjoy the energy of the cultural buzz sip a cappuccino and if needed to have privacy we can isolate our ctminds with headphones with classical music, and still be hooked up to the world via skype to take calls.At the same same time we can choose to embrace the energy around us and focus on our work, the need to embrace culture.

This website I have designed for the new age architect, who can now build his freedom around his ability to be mobile . He or She can now be an observer, and embrace of cultural fancy and at the same time be constructive and earn a living whilst being a nomad of design and culture.

The new age of the coffee shop architect is taken place and I look forward to anyone who may have something to comment , write about fusion of work culture and nomadic mobility,that we can now so much enjoy, with ability that technology has forwarded to us with mobile internet laptops and coffee shops culture.

Fee free to make a youtube video or write a comment which I will publish online  excerpt of your coffee shop experience together with your laptop and creative energies.

Love to hear your comments and posts.

Regards

Jason Josselsohn
jasonjosselsohn.blogspot.com