Since I'm here in LA, I'm getting this sense of wanting to pursue more B2C and design stuff.
It's hard to describe, but the palm trees, the sunsets, and the smell of citrus trees around my area make you more creative.
I also found out that Austrians were heavily influential in modern Californian architecture. I'm not a huge patriot, but it was quite cool to find out.
Essentially, Viennese architects got fed up with the fancy decorative ornamental housing style of the Habsburg Empire and wanted to finally do something more modern.
So they went to California, learned from local architects, fell in love with it, and influenced generations to come.
They helped shape the era of the Case Study Houses in LA, like this one.
Also really cool: that era in Vienna was known for its coffee house culture, because all those creative people would hang out in cafés and work.
Literally coworking spaces before we had coworking spaces!
Richard Neutra, one of those Austrian architects, has this quote on a plaque with his wife Dione, and I fell in love with it:
"United by the idea that man's survival depends on his design"
