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To challenge yourself and your abilities is the key to success. Once you are asked to do something you don’t know how to do, accept it, learn it, and move forward. Vitruvius mentioned the three keys of design as being Utilitas, Firmitas and Venustas. Having a building that is purely beautiful will never make up for how it functions. Having a building that functions perfectly and is not durable will decrease from the buildings value. So the solution is to simply fulfill all three and challenge your capabilities considering some of them are technical and the other are artistic, which in other words, sums up what an architect does. So according to Vitruvius, it’s simply fulfilling the three basic requirements of design to come up with a solution. How challenging is that?

- Alia Al Azzeh