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.

The question is, why are architects so partial to coffee?

Coffee helps make us more creative, this words can also apply to those in architectural practice. The reason behind our love for coffee is threefold:

1. Coffee gives you initiative

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 creativity. Ideas breed more ideas that eventually lead to creative breakthroughs. It is hard to generate this flow of ideas without any initiative.

2. Coffee creates commitment

The fact that drinking coffee gives you the persistence needed to work through many iterations of an idea, reducing the chance that you will give up before you hit upon the best solution. Fatigue is the number one killer of focus in the world. Coffee can’t help your social media addiction, but the caffeine steaming in your mug postpones fatigue so [you] can commit to the task at hand. For creatives, this means pushing through the stage of coming up with bad ideas. The cool thing is, enough bad ideas eventually lead to a good one.

3. Coffee inspires confidence

Since coffee inspires you to take the initiative and be committed to the task in hand, confidence naturally follows. The biggest barrier to boundless creativity is self-doubt. When you think your ideas are silly or stupid you stop coming up with ideas or worse, do not even start at all

So, there you have it: the link between coffee and creativity explained. Of course, not all clichés are so well founded.

It turns out not all architects love coffee. However take your favorite mug, fill it with the good stuff and raise a toast to great architectureand Smeg products.