Matthias Hollwich ? principal and founder of New York architecture firm HWKN ? has big ideas: about the future of work (and specifically the workplace), about aging and architecture, about how to get everything done in an overpacked day. The latter topic has a fairly straightforward answer: build a top team who can help shoulder the burden. ?My advice is to find the right people to work with because they’re key about helping you to stay in balance,? he says.
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The others, though, are thornier. Hollwich has long been investigating the well-being of elderly communities ? even taking his students to visit retirement homes. ?It?s an amazing experience,? Hollwich says of these paradigm-shifting field trips. ?Way back when I first went, my students went to a very typical-slash-mediocre nursing home, and it was just horrifying to see how older people lived there,? he says. ?They?re basically stored away from society. I still remember an amazing question: When the students went into the [community?s] kitchen, the chef basically explained about how healthy the cooking was, so the people [there] can live longer. And then my student just looked at the chef and said, ?You know what" I think you should just serve them anything they would want, because I don’t think that they want to live longer when they’re in here.? It was perfect. If we want people to live l...