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How to bridge generational expectations about success

My immigrant parents sacrificed everything so I could become an architect but they do not understand why I design abstract modern buildings instead of practical structures that help working families like ours.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The freedom to pursue aesthetic ideals can feel like a betrayal of those who enabled that freedom through their more fundamental struggles.

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“Where Are You with Architecture as legacy?”

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