Aldo threw himself completely into his work. There wasn’t any other way he knew how to deal with the pain of losing his wife. He had never experienced anything like this loneliness and torment before and he didn’t know how to grieve or if there was a proper way to grieve. The only solution he found for handling the void in his life was to work. Because he had taken such a long hiatus, with traveling to Spain, Sheila’s fathers death, and taking care of her for a year, he did not have any active projects that demanded his attention. His time was then dedicated to filling in all the knowledge gaps he had when it came to architecture and design by learning construction techniques, studying psychology to better understand how people think and experience space, reading architecture history and theory, and writing to further explore what he was learning. The most beneficial discipline during this time was experimenting with modeling just for the sake of making. New forms and compositions emerged that he wasn’t previously capable of creating. He began testing materials and the construction techniques he was learning and then figuring out more effective ways of building.
During that time he was solicited multiple times with work. Simple projects, all of which he refused because they didn’t interest him enough. He knew he had to eventually take on work again, but he held out with the belief that the right project would soon come along.
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