A Proverb

Today I signed a letter of intent on behalf of The Boston Society of Architects to relocate the BSA's offices and to open a new center for design and architecture in 2011.

This LOI is the bold culmination of months of research, deliberation, and spirited debate among the BSA’s dedicated staff, its Board members, our consultants, and dozens of additional BSA professionals who volunteered their time and diverse expertise so we might better accommodate our chapter’s broader vision of civic engagement and education.

During the process, we reaffirmed what architects have always known: namely, that truly transformational decisions of enduring value are best achieved through a shared journey of informed discovery, and that extraordinary outcomes occur only when the complex array of conditions, challenges, and opportunities that define a problem are rigorously investigated and questioned from many viewpoints. Only through interdisciplinary collaboration is fresh thinking and unconventional design vision realized.

As the Japanese proverb says: “none of us is as smart as all of us!”