Archinect - Features

Architects’ Most Unusual Client Requests

2019-02-02T14:00:00-05:00

When people hear architect they assume you are designing houses, office buildings, shopping centers etc. However there is always a special client out there wanting their architect to push the envelope or go beyond the stereotypical project or provide some unexpected service. The following are some architects and designers who shared their most unusual requests from clients.

#ArchinectMeets @sssscavvvv

2018-09-25T10:00:00-04:00

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has affected their practice.

Social media has undeniably affected the way we perceive, interpret and share opinions about architecture today. While we use our own account, @Archinect, as a site for image curation and news content, we wanted to ask fellow Instagram users how they navigated the platform.

We spoke to Ryan Scavnicky, the meme extraordinaire behind @sssscavvvv. Marshall Mcluhan's maxim, "the medium is the message," is nowhere more tested than with his class-bending Instagram posts, where a cryptic essay on Object Oriented Ontology can be interrogated by a forcefully skewed image under Clip Art text. Between his Instagram and his teaching fellowship at the School of Architecture at Talies...

A Snarky Haiku Collection Targets Architecture's Most Frustrating Moments

2016-11-22T12:03:00-05:00

Created by three contributors who wish to remain anonymous, Five Seven Five: Nine to Five is a collection of haiku that wryly (and occasionally cynically) explores the realities of day-to-day architectural employment, from choosing between SketchUp and Revit to the challenges of working with developers.