jesus christ get over your dick!
it isn't exactly respectful to tell someone ridiculous stories to get them to sleep with you.

...and I wouldn't think that means she wants to hang out with you in toronto per your 'toronto posting'. Just in case you thought it was flirting or something.

ok...stephanie...i was kidding!
you think someone would sleep with another person just because they're 'an architect'? hmmmmm...?

oh, and by the by steph., did i mention that i'm an architect? wink

confession:
i am a feminist. and right now seem to be going through a bout of "anti-male" vibes....

s.s.boy:
good luck slaying the tang in toronto!

god bless us, everyone!

stephanie...you're too much! i'm just having some fun. lol.

me too!

second using architecture for tang.

i worked on a competition of a rather large scale, and had a couple going at. it wasn't noticeable unless you got close enough.

this detail was not apparent until i pointed it out... after we won...

so stephanie: what's you're sign?

confession #2...i'm an architect 50+ wotk hours a week, but i like the ladies!

i work for a man who goes to great lengths to convince clients with small budgets that faux antique gold finish on wood trim is the right way to go. i saw that and wanted to puke after i stabbing my eyes out with the point ends of elmers white glue bottles.

help. please help.

captain EO, start drawing the Modulor man on all of your drawings as a scale figure.

i wish i knew how much an architects make before i moved in usa
its to late now, i already graduated.
and the by the way my husband is an architect too!!!!!!


thanks god my sister will be a doctor!!!

OOOOOOHH, that would put rock in his biscuit....

he actually, seriously offered to do the faux-ing himself, literally. spraypaint maroon, spray paint gold, and brush with steel wool.

barf, fart, and gag.

my friends think i'm rich.

i'm not doign much today.

I've spent the last two days severely exgerrating my moderately conservetive political views simply for the sake of argument and introspection.

The last CD I purchased was Tim McGraw.

I would rather wear plaid than a black turtleneck.

I'm from Tennessee but that has nothing to do with it... I think.




I don't complain about work when I get home because I would have to think about work to complain about it, and I want to spend as little time thinking about it as possible.

I would rather design motorcycles than buildings.

I designed my garage and had someone else build it. I still have not finished the interior. I'm hiring someone to rebuild my deck. Oh yeah, I guess I missed the first confession--I live in house built in the 80's in the 'GASP' suburbs!

i live in one of the worst neighborhoods (the ghetto, gasp) in a beautiful older townhouse. my hood is the butt of a lot of jokes around the office. sure theres crackheads next door that cuss and work on cars all night and live off welfare and lots of minorities that don't speak the language but i love it regardless, or perhaps because of... anyways, people are too good to even drive thru it and shun it like it has nothing to with them. they avoid it like the plague.
and then secretly i make fun of them for living out by the mall in their tidy little yuppie split levels with their basement rec rooms.

you ever see bowling for columbine? well, i live in the 'ghetto' of canada (according to mr. moore).
and the place is a garden of goodness! we've got it good up here!

i am not an architech, I am a theologian. I love architecture espically the design aspect. Like george kastanza I wish i was an architech. I have been afraid to even attempt architecture becuase of the following reason
1. It's too intimidating - i feel stupid around architech even though i absolutely love what they do
2. The fear of working 70 hours a week- ah that scares me
3. The cost involved- boy that really scares me-
4. not beable to make any money.
5. having no experinace just desire.
with.
6. I i don't have a strong science backgroung.
7. I don't have strong art skills. all though i have great ideas. I just can't brign them into reality. I have to hire a designer . those can be learned.
Maybe its all parinoia,but that's why i join the site. you guys are great

P.S. I LOVE THIS SITE

i am not an architech, I am a theologian. I love architecture espically the design aspect. Like george kastanza I wish i was an architech. I have been afraid to even attempt architecture becuase of the following reason
1. It's too intimidating - i feel stupid around architech even though i absolutely love what they do
2. The fear of working 70 hours a week- ah that scares me
3. The cost involved- boy that really scares me-
4. not beable to make any money.
5. having no experinace just desire.
with.
6. I i don't have a strong science backgroung.
7. I don't have strong art skills. all though i have great ideas. I just can't brign them into reality. I have to hire a designer . those can be learned.
Maybe its all parinoia,but that's why i join the site. you guys are great

P.S. I LOVE THIS SITE

icedragon: become an 'architectural designer'. no training, and if someone is willing to take a chance on you, you're involved. read, draw, enter competitions...all will expand you design skills, and give you feedback into what's cool, current and feasable.

ps...i'm going to get my mba in september. you can have my m.arch if you'd like. lol.

do you know where I might be able to find someone to take a chance?

i strongly suggest reading...researching a type/style that interests you. might i suggest sall scale residential? try an understand what's involved...local/city permits, approvals, et all. find out how things are built...start small.

apply some of these principals in compitition work. explore. build a small portfolio of interesting residential work. and build a website...demonstrating you ideas/abilities.

you might have people inquiring about you and your availability.

icedragon, as a theologian, try church communities - they usually have very little money to spend and would welcome some pro bono design work. Of course, if they want to build anything involving structure, they'll need an architect. But I assume you have a background in religious symbolism and liturgy, so you bring that to the table along with your design ideas.

You might volunteer on a church building committee that is starting work with an architect for an addition project or something - that way you could learn through the process.

I work with a lot of churches, and to offer you a flip view - I'd love to have more knowledge of theology!

sometimes, all I want to do is lay on my couch and read...
(ok, this is rather a lot of the time)

Also, I love postmodern theory, but hate postmodern buildings.

maybe we can help each other. I love talking about both

have you figured out why buildings based on such great ideas turn out so ugly yet? I'm still pondering that... my only guess is that it's because architects think so little of the people around them that they feel that this ugliness is all they will be able to relate to and understand. But I really don't like this idea, I'd rather think a bit better thoughts of architects as a group, so I'm unwilling to say that's definitely it.

i'm new here - just discovered the site tonight.

I don't know how I work - even after 8 years in the field (including school...)
I work on cad and then I feel bogged down so I sketch in plan but then its not precise so then ... I actually feel my heart racing and all.
everybody else know what they're doing, or at least they know what works for them.
I DON'T!!!
does anybody else feel like that?
do I need a shrink?

I made love to a blob.

-I think mies is overrated

-I fell asleep at a robert venturi lecture (lack of sleep, I promise)

-I have a 5 minute walk to a grocery store, but still drive

i'm not an architect but i pretend to be one on archinect.com

i envy contractors

i respect my engineers

i can't read french

i stress out when i need to consult the UBC

i hate house design - i just don't give a rat's ass

trust fund would have been better than this shit

do all bosses over 40 get botox? or is this just a major city kinda thing

magazines are better than buildings (pace muschamp)

i killed a client who mentioned FLW in my presence

I work for a developer.

I got to design my own business card so I put "Designer" as my title but in reality I act as a project manager (among other things). So - I'm not getting IDP but getting great experience. I don't draft so I still can't draw a wall section but I do know how to hire people who know how to put a building together.

The biggest confession - because of the lack of IDP and the fact that hopefully a child is in the near future I will probably not get licensed.

And here's another - It will be alright for me because I can just take advantage of my husband's license while I run the development branch of our future firm. I'm stuck in a personal battle between practicality and feminism.

why confess when every architect already has a guilt complex associated w/their repressed desires towards utopia and individual expression?

eu80:
you can be a feminist and practical! you also dont HAVE to get licensed, or go through IDP, depending on your state, you can take the exams after so many years of working with an architect.

confession: 3:30 rolled around and we started drinking beer at work, an hour and two beers later and i feel buzzed...what happened to my tolerance?
i also have nothing to do, and thus am surfing the 'nect

wow beer at work, talk about utopia

confession: i went on my end of the yr vacation to a private beach in south of peru, where i had designed all my plan to launch my office as an independent architect in 2005 and hopefully become very successful in architecture, design and construction, beer after beer, hoping a tsunami wouldnt come and shatter all my plans.

came bac to my city and got offered a job as design director for a publlic facilities and parks office......great pay

i wasnt man enough to decline

I really want to meet Per

i am a design snob..... an overall prick.i love to rip people apart at a crit and always anticipate the same.... yet all i get are blank stares....
and i too plan on ditching the globe with all my loans to design in another galaxy....without gravity.... and im sick and tired of professors that claim to be critical practitioners that cant have a dialouge with you about your design.....damn....ive been up for 3 days redefining architecture and all you had to say has been reduced a ball of saliva foam at the corner of your mouth..... grrrrrr....... this place is killing my soul........

Hi
Then emagine you keep repeating that this is about method that what you show is to show what is possible, that you are a designer that make building methods and everyone shuld be glad, now it can produce just what you want ----- and then another nosay say "I don't like your designs they are all to much retro 70 like" -----
This can drive you nuts --- saying again and again "don't judge my designs, look at the method , emagine what you yourself now can create, and even make the computer work.
Life of a designer.

whow... architecture in french ! rehabproject.org

i as well meet per like.

I feel like a misanthrope
sometimes i hate our profession, but then i also hate engineers and doctors
I hate all schools

And i love fast cars

I must agrea that I feel very attracted to the mashinery in it, the tools those that make the thing Im'e addicted to my old CalComb pen plotter and now I just found this, --- described as an "academic monument" anyway this monster projector now taken care of, carry a 800mm Leitz lens that make any Leica an Agfa box caera compared .



True 3D-Honeycomb isn't enough. this facinating projector take slides and pictures on paper and blow it uo to 3,5x3,5 meter in the finest quality ever possible .

Per, we've been over this before..... dear oh dear....

Have you heard of Mary Shelley?

And in particular her novel, Frankenstein.

Trying to create something beautiful, but you end up creating a monster.....

The monster being a hulk of honeycomb!!!!!!!

It's going to kill us all

i cann't speak english fluently...the shame...

Hi

I value this academic monument -- not my words but true this projector simply are the top, the lenses are from same factory that made the Leica 35mm. camera, still this is 800 mm. above and 400 mm. lenses at bottom Now if I couldn't value somthing that acturly make a Leica an Agfa box camera lenses compared ,what else shuld I then value if not the top of the best. Btw I don't compare myself with other people.
Anyway when I explore new options I don't ask myself about other peoples opinion anyway who you are ,and what you want reflect the wishes in your words and that is not even about creating creating beautifull things, would you even feel anything for anything, if you can't find joy exploring some technology esp that quality , top of the world in it's right, --- guess "Confessions of an architect happily don't affect me as I am a designer not an architect.

i'd rather be an interior designer

I cry in the mornings cause I don't want to come to work I hate it so much.