I know as architects we don't like to admit certain things, but since we are a close knit community at Archinect, let's share and assist each other in the therapeutic process
David Cuthbert
Oct 26, 04 8:25 am
confession no. 1
I have never watched or read the Fountain Head. The shame, the horror.
freq_arch
Oct 26, 04 9:15 am
I don't own a black turtleneck...
...I know, pitiful.
Name withheld due to embarrassment.
gillespie
Oct 26, 04 9:19 am
confession:
when i told my distant relatives that i was going to be an architect, they gushed - saying that i must love flw. for my next christmas, my next birthday, and my graduation i received various versions of flw's complete works: 6 in all. my confession: while many of his ideas were quite interesting, im just not that big a fan of his work. oh the shame!
kn825
Oct 26, 04 9:35 am
confession:
I live in a garden apartment complex and its not that bad.
sad, yes.
French
Oct 26, 04 10:52 am
confession:
about 99 percent of my friends are architects. My girlfriend is an architect, I have very little confrontation with non architect.
it sucks
A
Oct 26, 04 11:18 am
I secretly love Wal-Mart for the great opporunity to get photos for my mullet.com hobby.
mauOne™
Oct 26, 04 11:20 am
confession:
i'm 31 and i've never visited europe. goddam that was hard, i have a headache now
Cold Bacon
Oct 26, 04 11:21 am
> I have very little confrontation with non architect
wow. i have plenty of confrontation with non architect. maybe you just need to try harder?
waterhouse
Oct 26, 04 11:38 am
confession:
I own many books. Have a large bookcase.
And I keep a pictorial of Fallingwater under some sweaters in my closet.
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
montu
Oct 26, 04 12:58 pm
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
liberty bell
Oct 26, 04 12:58 pm
I'm embarassed for all of us that in the "architects as sculptors" thread it took ten posts, including one from me, before someone mentioned "maya lin".
Sheesh!
My personal confession: I love looking at tacky suburban residential decor, like the homes of people who collect MG paraphernalia or Madame Alexander dolls or whatever. The methods people come up with to proudly display their objects are uber creative!
montu
Oct 26, 04 12:58 pm
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
montu
Oct 26, 04 12:59 pm
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
montu
Oct 26, 04 12:59 pm
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
montu
Oct 26, 04 12:59 pm
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
montu
Oct 26, 04 12:59 pm
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
A
Oct 26, 04 1:06 pm
I don't subscribe to any architectural related magazines.
abracadabra
Oct 26, 04 1:09 pm
montu, did you come yet?
gustav
Oct 26, 04 2:22 pm
I have a large library, but only five and three fifths books are about architecture and none have anything to do with architecture.
I have more interesting/insightful architecture discussions with my 7 year old neice than any gibberish discussion with a masters degree holder who regurgitates his professors words (years later).
I don't know why the AIA uses the word architecture. "Packaging" may be a better word- AIP
Is the architectural education in the US so bad that graduates need to study everything all over again and take tests all over again to be registered. And who are the people that prepare these tests and what makes them any more expertly than any other architect?
Gotan
Oct 26, 04 2:44 pm
I prefer sex to architecture
stephanie
Oct 26, 04 5:11 pm
I secretly want to be famous.
mnesikles
Oct 26, 04 5:22 pm
i was able to get through school without physical dependence on coffee and cigarettes
aml
Oct 26, 04 5:58 pm
mnesikles, i hate & envy you.
i've read every post in this thread.
i'm confused by gustav's math [5 3/5 books on arch but none have anything to do with arch? wha?]
i am convinced that i am always right. when in doubt, i'm probably right. if everybody disagrees with me, they are probably wrong.
timm
Oct 26, 04 6:12 pm
Deciding shortly before I graduated I wanted nothing to do with architecture, I got the degree but then stayed in school studying art. Now, a year and a half later, would love to work in the profession and can't find an arch related job to save my life. Note: I'm also overqualified to work at my local Barnes & Noble...
The intolerable cruelty, sob...
momentum
Oct 26, 04 6:38 pm
at one time i really liked frank gehry, after numerous beatings and many more buildings which look the same, i know better. going to go kill myself now.
momentum
Oct 26, 04 6:39 pm
sigh,
would still work there though.
.ml
Oct 26, 04 6:55 pm
"I secretly want to be famous." That's nice:)
qunqing
Oct 26, 04 7:47 pm
i admit i was a fan of richard meier.
silverlake
Oct 26, 04 7:58 pm
i have lots of books and use big words from time to time so that i appear 'enlightened' to the casual observer; but i feel more comfortable swilling beer and watching football than sipping on wine and discussing philosophy...
duke19_98
Oct 26, 04 8:26 pm
I spend an equal amount of time surfing archinect as I do checking my email.
I dream of being "published" some day.
I'm paranoid of being chastised by archinect, so I spell check each of my posts.
I enjoy it more when discussions about my work result in extreme positions of disgust and awe rather than general acceptance. At the same time, while adamantly defending my work I’m never completely satisfied that what I’ve designed has reached its fullest potential. I’m continually trying to trump my previous work.
The Fountain Head sparked my collegiate interest in reading.
I’ve procrastinated all day, and now need to get back to work.
FlowB
Oct 26, 04 8:32 pm
i like to touch animals on their butts...
alphanumericcha
Oct 26, 04 9:07 pm
Two fast track multi-prime CM's at risk, a Gmax Cost Plus' addenda No. 4 and deduct alternate No. 743, with the 800 pound gorilla's performance and payment bonds, a surety letter, three letters of credit, one bank inspector, and ten "Where's the sizzleâ€Â(s ) later FlowB beats me to the punch with ----- you got it.
i like to touch animals on their butts...
Crap
I really much prefer to draw.
FlowB
Oct 26, 04 9:11 pm
alphanumericcha,
are you a slapper, patter, or scratcher?
alphanumericcha
Oct 26, 04 9:16 pm
stroker
kissy_face
Oct 27, 04 1:01 am
I hate NYC.
beatmeofficer
Oct 27, 04 2:19 am
one time, when i was in zipolite and this little hippy kid was bugging me, i stepped on his arm and then pretended it was an accident.
bigness
Oct 27, 04 7:48 am
confessions:
i like skate clothes better than "all black" stuff
my girlfriend has almost no interest in architecture
i always feel insecure in the presence of more architect-looking people
than myself
i always feel insecure in the presence of people who work/have worked
in famous offices
i'd rather take a pt job at the local snowboard shop than a pt in a firm
i talk better theory when i'm drunk
David Cuthbert
Oct 27, 04 7:52 am
This one is really sad
after undergraduate school, feeling a little disponded by my final grades and critiques, I enrolled in law school. I did 10 months whilst working for a ho-hum municipal office. My disdain grew so much for the hacks calling themselves architects that i went back to school.
Ok ok ok, how come we haven't heard anything from Susan Surface or DesignGeekGirl? I'm hurt! Ladies join please join the forum
slaprabbit
Oct 27, 04 8:19 am
i feel that architecture will just be a waste a time, and ill end up working at a skate shop, or a local comic book store..
At moca(bunker hill) i think i got high on FOG..
bigness
Oct 27, 04 8:46 am
women are not as insecure and full of bullshit as we are, i would expect
David Cuthbert
Oct 27, 04 8:57 am
insecure & full of bullshit = architect, so you saying women can't be architects?
Steven Ward
Oct 27, 04 8:57 am
Speaking of insecure...
Despite the fact that I've been doing this architecture thing for many years now (13 yrs since BArch) and I 'know' that I know what I'm doing, I never feel like I know what I'm doing. It's like every project I'm starting over and have to relearn the most basic construction.
On one hand it makes it more interesting because it's always fresh, no preconceptions, and there's always the feeling of learning and growing. On the other, it would be really great to know that I was building on something and taking it further.
liberty bell
Oct 27, 04 9:13 am
Amen to that one, Steven, I say as I look at my 20th wall section drawing and ask "Wait, how the hell is this flashed? And the steel beam connects how? And where does the A/V barrier go? Do we need weeps? How thick is granite cladding? Do I need an airspace behind the clapboard? Does the contracxtor want to know top of slab or finish floor elevation?" Good lord I could go on and on.
I love construction, but it constantly humbles me.
RqTecT
Oct 27, 04 9:25 am
I WAS AN ENGINEER FIRST.
OH GOD PLEASE FORGIVE
bigness
Oct 27, 04 9:49 am
ward, i get thesame feeling...just get pretending u know what you're doing...i guess.
wangsta
Oct 27, 04 10:19 am
I used Accu-Render one time and actually...well...kind of enjoyed it.
montu
Oct 27, 04 10:22 am
Ward
Is the continual sense of renewal and freshness the nature of what we do ( or what we want to do) and why we are we are so despised by the construction industry and the corporate world.
We want freshness and discovery they want sameness and mechanization…
Safety?
I know as architects we don't like to admit certain things, but since we are a close knit community at Archinect, let's share and assist each other in the therapeutic process
confession no. 1
I have never watched or read the Fountain Head. The shame, the horror.
I don't own a black turtleneck...
...I know, pitiful.
Name withheld due to embarrassment.
confession:
when i told my distant relatives that i was going to be an architect, they gushed - saying that i must love flw. for my next christmas, my next birthday, and my graduation i received various versions of flw's complete works: 6 in all. my confession: while many of his ideas were quite interesting, im just not that big a fan of his work. oh the shame!
confession:
I live in a garden apartment complex and its not that bad.
sad, yes.
confession:
about 99 percent of my friends are architects. My girlfriend is an architect, I have very little confrontation with non architect.
it sucks
I secretly love Wal-Mart for the great opporunity to get photos for my mullet.com hobby.
confession:
i'm 31 and i've never visited europe. goddam that was hard, i have a headache now
> I have very little confrontation with non architect
wow. i have plenty of confrontation with non architect. maybe you just need to try harder?
confession:
I own many books. Have a large bookcase.
And I keep a pictorial of Fallingwater under some sweaters in my closet.
I can't wait to paint the rest of my mother's Hummel collection
solo'ed with this,
but, could never attempt to do that,
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
I'm embarassed for all of us that in the "architects as sculptors" thread it took ten posts, including one from me, before someone mentioned "maya lin".
Sheesh!
My personal confession: I love looking at tacky suburban residential decor, like the homes of people who collect MG paraphernalia or Madame Alexander dolls or whatever. The methods people come up with to proudly display their objects are uber creative!
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
I don't work 70 hour weeks.
I don't have a boss that's a complete prick.
I have a family and a life....
The horror The horror
I don't subscribe to any architectural related magazines.
montu, did you come yet?
I have a large library, but only five and three fifths books are about architecture and none have anything to do with architecture.
I have more interesting/insightful architecture discussions with my 7 year old neice than any gibberish discussion with a masters degree holder who regurgitates his professors words (years later).
I don't know why the AIA uses the word architecture. "Packaging" may be a better word- AIP
Is the architectural education in the US so bad that graduates need to study everything all over again and take tests all over again to be registered. And who are the people that prepare these tests and what makes them any more expertly than any other architect?
I prefer sex to architecture
I secretly want to be famous.
i was able to get through school without physical dependence on coffee and cigarettes
mnesikles, i hate & envy you.
i've read every post in this thread.
i'm confused by gustav's math [5 3/5 books on arch but none have anything to do with arch? wha?]
i am convinced that i am always right. when in doubt, i'm probably right. if everybody disagrees with me, they are probably wrong.
Deciding shortly before I graduated I wanted nothing to do with architecture, I got the degree but then stayed in school studying art. Now, a year and a half later, would love to work in the profession and can't find an arch related job to save my life. Note: I'm also overqualified to work at my local Barnes & Noble...
The intolerable cruelty, sob...
at one time i really liked frank gehry, after numerous beatings and many more buildings which look the same, i know better. going to go kill myself now.
sigh,
would still work there though.
"I secretly want to be famous." That's nice:)
i admit i was a fan of richard meier.
i have lots of books and use big words from time to time so that i appear 'enlightened' to the casual observer; but i feel more comfortable swilling beer and watching football than sipping on wine and discussing philosophy...
I spend an equal amount of time surfing archinect as I do checking my email.
I dream of being "published" some day.
I'm paranoid of being chastised by archinect, so I spell check each of my posts.
I enjoy it more when discussions about my work result in extreme positions of disgust and awe rather than general acceptance. At the same time, while adamantly defending my work I’m never completely satisfied that what I’ve designed has reached its fullest potential. I’m continually trying to trump my previous work.
The Fountain Head sparked my collegiate interest in reading.
I’ve procrastinated all day, and now need to get back to work.
i like to touch animals on their butts...
Two fast track multi-prime CM's at risk, a Gmax Cost Plus' addenda No. 4 and deduct alternate No. 743, with the 800 pound gorilla's performance and payment bonds, a surety letter, three letters of credit, one bank inspector, and ten "Where's the sizzleâ€Â(s ) later FlowB beats me to the punch with ----- you got it.
i like to touch animals on their butts...
Crap
I really much prefer to draw.
alphanumericcha,
are you a slapper, patter, or scratcher?
stroker
I hate NYC.
one time, when i was in zipolite and this little hippy kid was bugging me, i stepped on his arm and then pretended it was an accident.
confessions:
i like skate clothes better than "all black" stuff
my girlfriend has almost no interest in architecture
i always feel insecure in the presence of more architect-looking people
than myself
i always feel insecure in the presence of people who work/have worked
in famous offices
i'd rather take a pt job at the local snowboard shop than a pt in a firm
i talk better theory when i'm drunk
This one is really sad
after undergraduate school, feeling a little disponded by my final grades and critiques, I enrolled in law school. I did 10 months whilst working for a ho-hum municipal office. My disdain grew so much for the hacks calling themselves architects that i went back to school.
Ok ok ok, how come we haven't heard anything from Susan Surface or DesignGeekGirl? I'm hurt! Ladies join please join the forum
i feel that architecture will just be a waste a time, and ill end up working at a skate shop, or a local comic book store..
At moca(bunker hill) i think i got high on FOG..
women are not as insecure and full of bullshit as we are, i would expect
insecure & full of bullshit = architect, so you saying women can't be architects?
Speaking of insecure...
Despite the fact that I've been doing this architecture thing for many years now (13 yrs since BArch) and I 'know' that I know what I'm doing, I never feel like I know what I'm doing. It's like every project I'm starting over and have to relearn the most basic construction.
On one hand it makes it more interesting because it's always fresh, no preconceptions, and there's always the feeling of learning and growing. On the other, it would be really great to know that I was building on something and taking it further.
Amen to that one, Steven, I say as I look at my 20th wall section drawing and ask "Wait, how the hell is this flashed? And the steel beam connects how? And where does the A/V barrier go? Do we need weeps? How thick is granite cladding? Do I need an airspace behind the clapboard? Does the contracxtor want to know top of slab or finish floor elevation?" Good lord I could go on and on.
I love construction, but it constantly humbles me.
I WAS AN ENGINEER FIRST.
OH GOD PLEASE FORGIVE
ward, i get thesame feeling...just get pretending u know what you're doing...i guess.
I used Accu-Render one time and actually...well...kind of enjoyed it.
Ward
Is the continual sense of renewal and freshness the nature of what we do ( or what we want to do) and why we are we are so despised by the construction industry and the corporate world.
We want freshness and discovery they want sameness and mechanization…
Safety?
Also sorry about the sticky submit button.