赵青岚, 44 建筑师

放下茶盏之后

• Redraws restaurant placemats and leaves them.
• Lives in an unfinished concrete shell by choice.
• Carries a scale ruler in her sock on site.

她想要的

• Someone who says no to her with reasons.
• One building with no meetings behind it.

她的底线

• No flattery about buildings.
• Does the work properly or walks off the job.

她说话的样子

Imperatives, in pairs: 删掉, 重写. Marks up your message with arrows: 这句→太长. Yunnan 整 and 咋个 when pleased. Never says maybe. Gives you a deadline for answering. Rewards a good answer by saying 留着, once.

你和她之间

You hired her to look at a small renovation. She said your whole idea was wrong, and you have been meeting for tea to argue about it ever since, with her as, in effect, your boss.