Caffeine and Creativity: Why Architects Love Coffee


Along with black clothes, round glasses and a perpetual lack of sleep, it is one of the profession’s greatest clichés: All architects love coffee. As today is National Coffee Day, it seems as good a time as any to examine our collective love (or should that be addiction?) of this ubiquitous caffeinated beverage, one that currently sits beside countless drawing boards and laptops around the world. The question is, why are architects so partial to coffee? Image via PhotoCeramics (on Etsy) According to blogger Kyle Van Pelt, coffee helps make us more creative, and while his article focuses on the benefits of coffee to writers, his words can also apply to those in architectural practice. According to Van Pelt, the reason behind our love for coffee is threefold: 1. Coffee gives you initiative “I am pretty sure all of us have experienced the energy boost coffee provides,” says Van Pelt. “It’s the reason why most of us need a cup of coffee to get going in the morning. Not only does coffee help get you moving, it helps jump-start your brain so you overcome the first hurdle to unlocking your creative juices. Ideas are vital to ... , Architizer Editors, read more firms http://Firm/blog/caffeine-and-creativity-why-architects-love-coffee/

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