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
FrankLloydMike
Jan 11, 06 11:01 am
I never trust the advice of doctors. I don't know why, I've never had any real medical issues, but every time they tell me why I have a soar throat or something, I doubt them. Still, they have a perfect track record of properly diagnosing my ailments, which thankfully are rather infrequent. I hate to admit this, because I always say that the general public should treat architects and designers with the same regard as they do doctors, lawyers and the like--not questioning their expert advice.
FrankLloydMike
Jan 11, 06 11:01 am
I never trust the advice of doctors. I don't know why, I've never had any real medical issues, but every time they tell me why I have a soar throat or something, I doubt them. Still, they have a perfect track record of properly diagnosing my ailments, which thankfully are rather infrequent. I hate to admit this, because I always say that the general public should treat architects and designers with the same regard as they do doctors, lawyers and the like--not questioning their expert advice.
FrankLloydMike
Jan 11, 06 11:01 am
I never trust the advice of doctors. I don't know why, I've never had any real medical issues, but every time they tell me why I have a soar throat or something, I doubt them. Still, they have a perfect track record of properly diagnosing my ailments, which thankfully are rather infrequent. I hate to admit this, because I always say that the general public should treat architects and designers with the same regard as they do doctors, lawyers and the like--not questioning their expert advice.
FrankLloydMike
Jan 11, 06 11:01 am
I never trust the advice of doctors. I don't know why, I've never had any real medical issues, but every time they tell me why I have a soar throat or something, I doubt them. Still, they have a perfect track record of properly diagnosing my ailments, which thankfully are rather infrequent. I hate to admit this, because I always say that the general public should treat architects and designers with the same regard as they do doctors, lawyers and the like--not questioning their expert advice.
SuperHeavy
Jan 11, 06 11:31 am
we get it already. you don't trust doctors.
David Cuthbert
Jan 11, 06 8:57 pm
I don't know when to stop being so nice :-)
StudioGhost
Jan 12, 06 2:32 am
I have only used a plotter successfully once.
Beaker
Jan 12, 06 3:34 am
Superheavy,
Not really. some people manage to come up with really really good ideas with really abstract thinking and got away with it and some just bullshit and its the kind of bullshit that make me think "omg did he just said that" or "what the fuck was that".
This is the one that I've heard and remembered.
"The reason why I have a huge glass tank filled with water that goes up and down is because I would like to introduce the idea of time into my architecture, like high tide and low tide" wtf?
mimo
Jan 12, 06 10:13 pm
ahh...my lovely confessions:
1. This is my very first post on archinect...
2. I don't know CAD for shit
3. I had hot sex until 4am last night :)
TWINE
Jan 12, 06 11:17 pm
1. I'm not an architect.
2. Like I've said before, I've been in college for 2 years now and have wasted my entire academic life.
3. This past semester I cheated on my boyfriend of 3.6 years - a month later he tried to kill himself; now I'm dating the architect.
4. I had no friends until I was 16... that weren't online.
5. I'm TERRIBLE at dealing with bureaucracy, and I guess this makes me highly irresponsible, but determinantly so.
6. I'm marvelous at appearing confident, but really, I'm highly unsure of myself - or at least, what roads to take.
7. I want to change the world, want to mold it to my high standards, but don't work for it because I realize the futility.
8. I'd LOVE to be in some type of ________ design because I possess ideas but lack formal skill, and this makes me feel inadequate.
9. The ideas I get are perfection in my brain, and I feel that if I let them loose into reality, they will simply degrade before my eyes, and it stops me from doing much...
10. I am capable of pretty much anything, I just have to find it worth something, shaking, revolutionary.
11. I think most people are ridiculous, stupid, banal wastes who strive for nothing.
whew, okay, that was a lot.
inkwray
Jan 13, 06 1:50 am
I've been beating myself up for the last year thinking about past relatinships and how i destroyed them. I'm realized that I don't give a shit and i need to start giving a shit.
.
I'm bad with money.
I've never used CAD and have no desire to ever use it.
I have a huge EGO.
I demand compensation.
I hate Chicago, the midwest and want to leave.
I think my landlord is selling dope and i haven't done anything about it.
inkwray
Jan 13, 06 1:50 am
I'm moving soon.
inkwray
Jan 13, 06 1:51 am
I believe in god.
I love sex.
Beaker
Jan 13, 06 3:04 am
I hate the fact that this is such a long course
c.k.
Jan 13, 06 1:08 pm
i love thatch roofs
job job
Jan 13, 06 1:32 pm
years ago i once designed and built a lamp, wired it badly, and blew the circuit for half the office and 20 machines. after hours. while they were rendering. i did do the right thing and call in the IT guy - he loved that : coming in at night to check the server isn't torched.
the blue flash from the jbox was incredible - i'm surprised i lived.
job job
Jan 13, 06 2:24 pm
i'm mental for thatch rooves!
job job
Jan 13, 06 2:44 pm
how would i spec a thatched roof?
1. big fuckin roof assembly of 2 hour fire-rated straw non-painted nor finished. builder to provide samples for approval and assumes all liability for water leakage and smell.
2. suppliers farmer brown or ingalls meet performance criteria.
snooker
Jan 13, 06 5:16 pm
It all depends if you want an english thatched roof, african thatched roof, south american rain forest thatched roof or a tahiti thatched roof.
I was always keen on the Sioux Indians, sweat lodges..naked and hot!
ryanj
Jan 14, 06 10:51 pm
sticking to priorities have made for a lonely, albeit personally rewarding, college life....i need to learn to take risks with my time
i guess im just another selfish INTJ
sporadic supernova
May 21, 06 1:30 am
I thought that I should revive this thread ...
I just started reading "the fountainhead" 4 years after graduating !!
Nevermore
May 22, 06 3:45 am
I didn't design anything today.
(sob.)
walter_
May 22, 06 9:28 am
ive been trying to read the fountainhead for about 4 months now and can't seem to get past page 400. I'd rather read more Harry Potter...
Philarch
May 22, 06 10:01 am
I'm tired of the metrosexual stereotype of male architects, and I will do anything I can to change that perception
1. I will never buy anything from DWR (oh oh), I will never throw down $3000 on ONE chair that some dead architect designed and I laugh in private at those that do.
2. I dislike carefully articulated black and white pictures of buildings and spaces with nobody and nothing in them.
3. I secretly think architects are boring people to hang out with.
I know, I'm going to architect-hell.
Nevermore
May 23, 06 4:25 am
jade, I took your 3rd statement very personally.
what else do u feel about architects ?
Dapper Napper
May 23, 06 12:13 pm
1. I really like wearing black. It's slimming.
2. I really, really like watching TV and not just "smart" TV. I burn brain cells on all of it.
3. I really, really, really dislike interacting with the rest of humanity on a daily basis.
4. I love my current job, but will feel like a complete loser if I pass up a chance to work corporate.
NiEv
May 23, 06 10:10 pm
I don't use MAYA because I would have to use both hands.
(I need my left hand for holding a cigarette while working on the computer.)
Keef
May 24, 06 9:07 am
I have mastered using the keys that make it sound like I am running CAD
arquiVIII
May 24, 06 10:11 am
"Architecture Best Practices for Ruby Applications in a Java World" dump ... I just lost my world .......
Keef
May 24, 06 3:44 pm
I promised myself that I would not buy one of those single-gear bikes, but I desperately want one.
mfrech
May 25, 06 10:10 am
1. i tell myself that my drinking hobby is what's keeping me from learning more 3D software and reading theory...but it isn't.
2. i've seen Journey in concert. twice.
David Cuthbert
May 27, 06 3:45 pm
rarely use 3d ('cept sketch up) - not sure if I even remember how
I'll dislike people who design like shit (clad-PoMos especially)
I hate having to justify that I am an architect to the public and that their fate lies in my talents
c.k.
May 27, 06 5:27 pm
I hate books
hobbitte
May 28, 06 4:12 am
Critweek is my favourite time of the year. A true masochist.
Medusa
May 28, 06 11:27 am
1. I don't have any friends who are architects, except a couple of people I went to school with. In fact...
2. I really don't like other architects. Instead...
3. I hang out with a lot of engineers and computer guys.
4. Even my boyfriend is a Computer Engineer.
5. I think for grad school, I'm going to study structural engineering.
6. I think the majority of architects are full of shit and out of touch with reality.
7. I like to wear colorful clothes. You'll rarely catch me wearing all black, and if I am, it's probably just because I have my period.
8. I think black thick-rimmed glasses look stupid. I remember when I was a kid those were the glasses you'd get beat up for wearing, but your parents made you wear them anyway because they were the cheapest frames at Lenscrafters.
nbre
May 28, 06 12:28 pm
I criticize everything to death because I feel being 'in architecture' credentials me to look down and pontificate on topics and issues about which I know nothing. And, for a while I made a point of correcting strangers if they thought I was in an undergrad program. How insufferable!
David Cuthbert
May 28, 06 4:03 pm
I think Medusa should be quartered for her comments towards architects...or worse at her thoughts on become an SE
jaja
May 28, 06 5:37 pm
I hate design hotels and prefer to stay in the Marriot, Shereton or Hilton.
c.k.
May 28, 06 5:45 pm
I check the closet every time I've stepped out to do laundry or whatever and left door unlocked.
You never know if there's something lurking inside.
Nevermore
May 30, 06 7:04 am
I got to design cities before i got to design furniture.
jpark
May 30, 06 2:02 pm
I read this thread about a year ago when it started, during the honeymoon period of a new job, and felt everyone posting here must be pathetic. Safe to say, honeymoon ended pretty quickly and I feel some profound guilt about posting this right now....Anyway, sincere apologies.
(1) I bask in the self-righteousness of not owning a tv, but I crave episodes of 24 and some sports like heroin. The possibility of missing world cup games in a couple days keeps me up nights.
(2)I've lied, frequently and without hesitation, and said I'm from New York to lend myself the air of cosmopolitan authority. New York State, that is.
(3)I would buy all black clothes, but I sweat profusely and that just wouldn't jive. I blame this genetic condition on some kind of higher power limiting my capacity for success in this profession.
(4)I was going to quit my job of the last 1-1/2 years about an hour ago, but I decided to post this and see if I feel better.
(5) The last time I felt excruciatingly numb and hopeless was the day after the last election. I decided at that point to concentrate on micro-concerns (advancing career, day to day stuff - i.e. no more politics) and it appears that that strategy has failed since, you know, well, i hate my job.
(6) During the 2-3:30 stretch feeling unbelievably sorry for myself about the horrible place I work and resolved to leave, I go and look at pictures of Darfur or some random refugee camp and I'm able to suck it up. I guess this isn't really a confession, more like a coping strategy.
(7) I was going to post this to postsecret instead, but I feel like that community might not really comprehend the intensity of the despair.
207moak
May 30, 06 4:07 pm
I was surprised and depressed by my my realization that, after 10 years in the profession, I'm not completely disenchanted by it.
I try to approach my job as if it were an assembly line and not look at it as a creative outlet.
I wonder if I'll always feel like I'm headed somewhere, but never actually get there.
snooker
May 30, 06 7:07 pm
207moak.....could it be you approach your job as if it were and assembly ling and not look at it as a creative toilet?
mcf1983
Jun 14, 06 4:30 pm
I listen to Rush Limbaugh and the EIB netork every day at work while everyone else thinks I am rocking out on my headphones.
catastrophe
Jun 14, 06 6:40 pm
1. i've made cigarettes out of straw wrappers when all the stores were closed and all i could find was rolling tobacco during an allnighter.
2. i know exactly what time the birds wake up on my street
3. it's easier to stay concentrated on programming than design without aderol.
4. i read a lot, and almost majored in english
5. i think i'm better than everyone else
6. i like ikea
mespellrong
Jun 15, 06 2:17 am
I wear a t-shirt that says, "That's great in practice, but how does it work in theory?" and didn't like the design of the mass produced one so I had it custom made.
I'm fairly certain I'll regret for the rest of my life not going to SCI-Arc – or at least until I stop compulsively reading the 'your school sucks' posts on Archinet.
I taught at a top 10 B-school for two years before I even considered studying architecture.
There hasn't been a whole year in the last twenty-six that I wasn't in school in some sense.
Every woman I've dated since college I met on the Internet.
the silent observer
Jun 15, 06 1:35 pm
I love air conditioning. Screw passive ventilation strategies. I want my room to be a constant 69 degrees F.
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
I never trust the advice of doctors. I don't know why, I've never had any real medical issues, but every time they tell me why I have a soar throat or something, I doubt them. Still, they have a perfect track record of properly diagnosing my ailments, which thankfully are rather infrequent. I hate to admit this, because I always say that the general public should treat architects and designers with the same regard as they do doctors, lawyers and the like--not questioning their expert advice.
I never trust the advice of doctors. I don't know why, I've never had any real medical issues, but every time they tell me why I have a soar throat or something, I doubt them. Still, they have a perfect track record of properly diagnosing my ailments, which thankfully are rather infrequent. I hate to admit this, because I always say that the general public should treat architects and designers with the same regard as they do doctors, lawyers and the like--not questioning their expert advice.
I never trust the advice of doctors. I don't know why, I've never had any real medical issues, but every time they tell me why I have a soar throat or something, I doubt them. Still, they have a perfect track record of properly diagnosing my ailments, which thankfully are rather infrequent. I hate to admit this, because I always say that the general public should treat architects and designers with the same regard as they do doctors, lawyers and the like--not questioning their expert advice.
I never trust the advice of doctors. I don't know why, I've never had any real medical issues, but every time they tell me why I have a soar throat or something, I doubt them. Still, they have a perfect track record of properly diagnosing my ailments, which thankfully are rather infrequent. I hate to admit this, because I always say that the general public should treat architects and designers with the same regard as they do doctors, lawyers and the like--not questioning their expert advice.
we get it already. you don't trust doctors.
I don't know when to stop being so nice :-)
I have only used a plotter successfully once.
Superheavy,
Not really. some people manage to come up with really really good ideas with really abstract thinking and got away with it and some just bullshit and its the kind of bullshit that make me think "omg did he just said that" or "what the fuck was that".
This is the one that I've heard and remembered.
"The reason why I have a huge glass tank filled with water that goes up and down is because I would like to introduce the idea of time into my architecture, like high tide and low tide" wtf?
ahh...my lovely confessions:
1. This is my very first post on archinect...
2. I don't know CAD for shit
3. I had hot sex until 4am last night :)
1. I'm not an architect.
2. Like I've said before, I've been in college for 2 years now and have wasted my entire academic life.
3. This past semester I cheated on my boyfriend of 3.6 years - a month later he tried to kill himself; now I'm dating the architect.
4. I had no friends until I was 16... that weren't online.
5. I'm TERRIBLE at dealing with bureaucracy, and I guess this makes me highly irresponsible, but determinantly so.
6. I'm marvelous at appearing confident, but really, I'm highly unsure of myself - or at least, what roads to take.
7. I want to change the world, want to mold it to my high standards, but don't work for it because I realize the futility.
8. I'd LOVE to be in some type of ________ design because I possess ideas but lack formal skill, and this makes me feel inadequate.
9. The ideas I get are perfection in my brain, and I feel that if I let them loose into reality, they will simply degrade before my eyes, and it stops me from doing much...
10. I am capable of pretty much anything, I just have to find it worth something, shaking, revolutionary.
11. I think most people are ridiculous, stupid, banal wastes who strive for nothing.
whew, okay, that was a lot.
I've been beating myself up for the last year thinking about past relatinships and how i destroyed them. I'm realized that I don't give a shit and i need to start giving a shit.
.
I'm bad with money.
I've never used CAD and have no desire to ever use it.
I have a huge EGO.
I demand compensation.
I hate Chicago, the midwest and want to leave.
I think my landlord is selling dope and i haven't done anything about it.
I'm moving soon.
I believe in god.
I love sex.
I hate the fact that this is such a long course
i love thatch roofs
years ago i once designed and built a lamp, wired it badly, and blew the circuit for half the office and 20 machines. after hours. while they were rendering. i did do the right thing and call in the IT guy - he loved that : coming in at night to check the server isn't torched.
the blue flash from the jbox was incredible - i'm surprised i lived.
i'm mental for thatch rooves!
how would i spec a thatched roof?
1. big fuckin roof assembly of 2 hour fire-rated straw non-painted nor finished. builder to provide samples for approval and assumes all liability for water leakage and smell.
2. suppliers farmer brown or ingalls meet performance criteria.
It all depends if you want an english thatched roof, african thatched roof, south american rain forest thatched roof or a tahiti thatched roof.
I was always keen on the Sioux Indians, sweat lodges..naked and hot!
sticking to priorities have made for a lonely, albeit personally rewarding, college life....i need to learn to take risks with my time
i guess im just another selfish INTJ
I thought that I should revive this thread ...
I just started reading "the fountainhead" 4 years after graduating !!
I didn't design anything today.
(sob.)
ive been trying to read the fountainhead for about 4 months now and can't seem to get past page 400. I'd rather read more Harry Potter...
I'm tired of the metrosexual stereotype of male architects, and I will do anything I can to change that perception
I like to read the soils' report.
...and i love to read spam
1. I will never buy anything from DWR (oh oh), I will never throw down $3000 on ONE chair that some dead architect designed and I laugh in private at those that do.
2. I dislike carefully articulated black and white pictures of buildings and spaces with nobody and nothing in them.
3. I secretly think architects are boring people to hang out with.
I know, I'm going to architect-hell.
jade, I took your 3rd statement very personally.
what else do u feel about architects ?
1. I really like wearing black. It's slimming.
2. I really, really like watching TV and not just "smart" TV. I burn brain cells on all of it.
3. I really, really, really dislike interacting with the rest of humanity on a daily basis.
4. I love my current job, but will feel like a complete loser if I pass up a chance to work corporate.
I don't use MAYA because I would have to use both hands.
(I need my left hand for holding a cigarette while working on the computer.)
I have mastered using the keys that make it sound like I am running CAD
"Architecture Best Practices for Ruby Applications in a Java World" dump ... I just lost my world .......
I promised myself that I would not buy one of those single-gear bikes, but I desperately want one.
1. i tell myself that my drinking hobby is what's keeping me from learning more 3D software and reading theory...but it isn't.
2. i've seen Journey in concert. twice.
rarely use 3d ('cept sketch up) - not sure if I even remember how
I'll dislike people who design like shit (clad-PoMos especially)
I hate having to justify that I am an architect to the public and that their fate lies in my talents
I hate books
Critweek is my favourite time of the year. A true masochist.
1. I don't have any friends who are architects, except a couple of people I went to school with. In fact...
2. I really don't like other architects. Instead...
3. I hang out with a lot of engineers and computer guys.
4. Even my boyfriend is a Computer Engineer.
5. I think for grad school, I'm going to study structural engineering.
6. I think the majority of architects are full of shit and out of touch with reality.
7. I like to wear colorful clothes. You'll rarely catch me wearing all black, and if I am, it's probably just because I have my period.
8. I think black thick-rimmed glasses look stupid. I remember when I was a kid those were the glasses you'd get beat up for wearing, but your parents made you wear them anyway because they were the cheapest frames at Lenscrafters.
I criticize everything to death because I feel being 'in architecture' credentials me to look down and pontificate on topics and issues about which I know nothing. And, for a while I made a point of correcting strangers if they thought I was in an undergrad program. How insufferable!
I think Medusa should be quartered for her comments towards architects...or worse at her thoughts on become an SE
I hate design hotels and prefer to stay in the Marriot, Shereton or Hilton.
I check the closet every time I've stepped out to do laundry or whatever and left door unlocked.
You never know if there's something lurking inside.
I got to design cities before i got to design furniture.
I read this thread about a year ago when it started, during the honeymoon period of a new job, and felt everyone posting here must be pathetic. Safe to say, honeymoon ended pretty quickly and I feel some profound guilt about posting this right now....Anyway, sincere apologies.
(1) I bask in the self-righteousness of not owning a tv, but I crave episodes of 24 and some sports like heroin. The possibility of missing world cup games in a couple days keeps me up nights.
(2)I've lied, frequently and without hesitation, and said I'm from New York to lend myself the air of cosmopolitan authority. New York State, that is.
(3)I would buy all black clothes, but I sweat profusely and that just wouldn't jive. I blame this genetic condition on some kind of higher power limiting my capacity for success in this profession.
(4)I was going to quit my job of the last 1-1/2 years about an hour ago, but I decided to post this and see if I feel better.
(5) The last time I felt excruciatingly numb and hopeless was the day after the last election. I decided at that point to concentrate on micro-concerns (advancing career, day to day stuff - i.e. no more politics) and it appears that that strategy has failed since, you know, well, i hate my job.
(6) During the 2-3:30 stretch feeling unbelievably sorry for myself about the horrible place I work and resolved to leave, I go and look at pictures of Darfur or some random refugee camp and I'm able to suck it up. I guess this isn't really a confession, more like a coping strategy.
(7) I was going to post this to postsecret instead, but I feel like that community might not really comprehend the intensity of the despair.
I was surprised and depressed by my my realization that, after 10 years in the profession, I'm not completely disenchanted by it.
I try to approach my job as if it were an assembly line and not look at it as a creative outlet.
I wonder if I'll always feel like I'm headed somewhere, but never actually get there.
207moak.....could it be you approach your job as if it were and assembly ling and not look at it as a creative toilet?
I listen to Rush Limbaugh and the EIB netork every day at work while everyone else thinks I am rocking out on my headphones.
1. i've made cigarettes out of straw wrappers when all the stores were closed and all i could find was rolling tobacco during an allnighter.
2. i know exactly what time the birds wake up on my street
3. it's easier to stay concentrated on programming than design without aderol.
4. i read a lot, and almost majored in english
5. i think i'm better than everyone else
6. i like ikea
I wear a t-shirt that says, "That's great in practice, but how does it work in theory?" and didn't like the design of the mass produced one so I had it custom made.
I'm fairly certain I'll regret for the rest of my life not going to SCI-Arc – or at least until I stop compulsively reading the 'your school sucks' posts on Archinet.
I taught at a top 10 B-school for two years before I even considered studying architecture.
There hasn't been a whole year in the last twenty-six that I wasn't in school in some sense.
Every woman I've dated since college I met on the Internet.
I love air conditioning. Screw passive ventilation strategies. I want my room to be a constant 69 degrees F.