Archinect
anchor

If I weren't an Architect I'd be a ....

275
Ms Beary

farmer

Mar 25, 05 5:46 pm  · 
 · 
momentum

i'd draw comics

Mar 25, 05 6:03 pm  · 
 · 
whodamantom

Well, my mother always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be, unfortunatly she never anticipated a child who had a deep desire to be the Prince of Wales! I suppose a being a member of the leisure class wouldnt be disagreeable, Id have lots of time to be creative.

If I werent an architect I would be.... Unhappy?
or
an F1 driver

Mar 25, 05 6:49 pm  · 
 · 
Reason

film director or philosopher

Mar 25, 05 6:52 pm  · 
 · 
whitllam

race car driver or meteorologist (a real one, not the "news readers" you see on your local news)

Mar 25, 05 8:07 pm  · 
 · 
ArchAngel

Pornstar/Professional Wrestler.......actually a Pornstar in a professional wrestling Arena. No Ropes.......All of the production and energy and spectacle of the PayPerView events, but only me and the adult industry's finest female stars. Yeah.

Mar 25, 05 8:41 pm  · 
 · 
c

bank robber

Mar 25, 05 9:27 pm  · 
 · 
inkwray

an airforce pilot for the israeli army.
or a secret agent for the mossad.

Mar 25, 05 10:59 pm  · 
 · 
mintcar

hip hop music producer, free-lance writer, or a full-time academic

Mar 26, 05 12:54 am  · 
 · 
edmund.l.liang

pornstar.

Mar 26, 05 2:22 am  · 
 · 
edmund.l.liang

maybe not. . . zookeeper

Mar 26, 05 2:23 am  · 
 · 
David Cuthbert

porn star zookeeper same thing aint it?

whodamantom funny you mention that there is an old article on the british monarchy and the Prince of Wales response if he weren't a royal is that he would an architect...funny instead he's a f...ing arch critic who doesnt know his head from his arse. Probably he married one...sorry I'm venting

Mar 26, 05 9:06 pm  · 
 · 
whodamantom

jam-arch. Ya i was actually looking at going to the "Prince of Wales school...of urban something or other, he actually teaches sonme of the lecture, and i said, and what does he know?

Mar 26, 05 10:04 pm  · 
 · 
Smokety Mc Smoke Smoke

mail-order groom

Mar 26, 05 10:10 pm  · 
 · 
whodamantom

?

Mar 26, 05 10:16 pm  · 
 · 
Cloutier

the guy in the subway that always plays the same song yet never gets any better.

its probably better money than architecture

Mar 26, 05 10:16 pm  · 
 · 
inkwray

you mean the korean lady who plays "hava na gila" ? -spell that right?

Mar 27, 05 5:20 am  · 
 · 
naya

a doctor or may be writer

Mar 27, 05 5:29 am  · 
 · 
siggers

Doctor Who!!!!

Mar 27, 05 7:27 am  · 
 · 
Nell Lime

whodamantom- I heard that your mom thinks you were going to crash cars... was that what you were going to learn at the "Prince of Wales school"?

I was thinking more... perhaps I would be a painter. Anyway in which I could make the world more beautiful.

Although for a while I was thinking of being a pioneer in the old west.

Mar 27, 05 9:18 am  · 
 · 
Nell Lime

signum... which Doctor Who?

Mar 27, 05 9:26 am  · 
 · 
WonderK

It seems to me that with so many potential film directors, cinematographers, writers, painters, and members of the Royal Family we have here, we could start an Archinect production company.

Mar 27, 05 1:49 pm  · 
 · 
plainjane

i'd be a cat

Mar 27, 05 2:00 pm  · 
 · 
Nell Lime

Well if we had an Archinet production company what kind of films would we make?

Mar 27, 05 4:45 pm  · 
 · 
design geek-girl

Well, I've been dating a developer in the last few weeks... and that seems like a pretty sweet deal. I'd be a developer with a design conscience,

Mar 27, 05 4:57 pm  · 
 · 
WonderK

If we had our own production company, I would think that we would make:

self-important documentaries

or

animated adult films

or

one-hour weekly dramedies about the trials and tribulations of being an architect. We are very under-represented in this latter category. Currently all the shows are about lawyers, doctors, military doctors who happen to be lawyers, or other people who solve crimes.

Ironically, few of us seem to have any interest in being lawyers or doctors in lieu of being an architect. I guess the one thing we all have in common is that none of us really want someone else's life in our hands :o)

Mar 27, 05 7:44 pm  · 
 · 
David Cuthbert

we could make our own spin on the "office" called the studio...kinda non-descrip you can tell if its an architectural studio or an architectural school studio. But it could also be like 24...since we are always in the studio 24 hours..with the clock tick tick. Not everyone wears black and the only time you see outside of the studio is when they have to make a coffee run, run to the ER, or presentation to the clients or drop the competition entry at the dhl office. okay i have a copyright on this...we could even get brad hotpants to do a cameo...think of the exposure. Our advertisers would be dwr, gap, old navy, black - an unnamed company for the artistically inclined, maserati, and enzyte...male enhancement pills

Mar 27, 05 8:31 pm  · 
 · 
JeffS

My Uncle works for enzyte...

I'll throw the idea by him...

Mar 27, 05 8:33 pm  · 
 · 
whodamantom

Dead? In some sense or another/

Mar 27, 05 9:41 pm  · 
 · 
whodamantom

I know some of you would turn into Heroin addicts, oh I guess those kids arent on a post,....

Mar 27, 05 9:42 pm  · 
 · 
WonderK

Don't forget Apple....

As an advertiser of course. The show would definitely have to be wryly humorous - but no laugh track - and exaggerated, as in, chopped off fingers, studio sex, etc, it all happens to the same group of about 6 people...

Also it would have to be under-watched and critically acclaimed...

What's the name of our show going to be?

And don't we have any aspiring producers on this thing? Let's get the ball rolling here....

PS. Good idea on the heroine addict, you don't see many of them on TV these days....

Mar 27, 05 10:07 pm  · 
 · 
Bula

If I had no kids...
summer: island resort bartender
winter: ski patrol or back country tour guide

With kids...
lawyer or doctor then developer

Mar 27, 05 11:05 pm  · 
 · 
Cloutier

hmmmm i would watch that show!

the show could be regular studio activities.... the regular stuff... the exagerations, action, drama, violence, sex could actually just happen in the architects' "fantasy world"...

Mar 28, 05 1:26 am  · 
 · 
LenaV

I would definately own my own vineyard and be a winemaker. But hey, I can do it once I retire.

Mar 28, 05 1:29 am  · 
 · 
David Cuthbert

wonder K its called studio

now heroin but there should be a brilliant partner who is also a pot head, and you need a womaniser, and to twist it up let the interior architect be straight - but everyone think he'shes gay...hmmm

Mar 28, 05 4:53 pm  · 
 · 
whodamantom

hahaha; glad that was well received.
How about a show about studio life by Requiem for a dream director, Darren Aronofsky, it would be sick!

Mar 28, 05 5:33 pm  · 
 · 
whodamantom

Wait the womanizer would have to be the one that was secretely gay

Mar 28, 05 5:33 pm  · 
 · 
David Cuthbert

good idea

Mar 28, 05 5:56 pm  · 
 · 
5

An economist. Who DEY!

Mar 28, 05 9:18 pm  · 
 · 
aml

another twist: at the end of the season the dark uber cool type that everybody admires turns in a crappy project and decides to pursue an mba

let's keep track here... we have:

1. an interior designer who everybody things is gay but is really secretly straight

2. a womanizer that's secretly gay [this could also be the mysterious guy in black as mentioned before]

3. the brilliant pot head

?. a friend told me one of her classmates at the gsd was a calvin klein model whose father did porn movies but this seems so outlandish it would never make a show.

so scratch that.

4. the brown-noser that's always trying to read the teacher/boss's mind?

5. the archi-babbler? [could also be no. 2, kill 3 birds one stone]

Mar 28, 05 10:56 pm  · 
 · 
Nell Lime

How about the one who goes in and works, and no one ever notices they are there... secretly leading the double life of the client.

Mar 28, 05 11:02 pm  · 
 · 
montu

I simply wanted to fight evil!

Mar 28, 05 11:20 pm  · 
 · 
WonderK

On the characters, good ideas, all....

I think I can cite precedents for each of these imaginary people. You know I've been doing this for too long when I start citing precedents...

Anyway, don't forget this one:


6. the emotionally unstable one who always cries after crits. Characterized by a general unwillingness to take risks and complete and total insecurity. Almost always gets A's. Yes, I know one of these too.

The brilliant pot head is my favorite. They are the most amusing, a guy in my class once designed polka-dotted tree houses, no lie.....

Mar 28, 05 11:53 pm  · 
 · 
aml

oh, oh, i like the guy that no one notices is there... great comic potential... lots of frustrated comments, like, "um could you move your elbow from my model?" and such. or, teacher asking "who's seen ernest?" when ernest is in the room...

i had an unstable crier in my studio once. she [hey, i'm a 'she' too] got into a screaming match with the teacher. lots of fun for all the family. i say let's have the unstable crier be more of a B student, though. ok, B+. he/she's also the brown noser i think, to consolidate.

Mar 29, 05 12:20 am  · 
 · 
David Cuthbert

you need those with D.Archs Phds and what not who are in the "drafting" section who considers themselves a failure

the modelbuilder who has police warning tape at 1.513m intervals away from the latest model in process - he speaks in a wavering voice that shoots to high octaves.

Mar 29, 05 6:59 am  · 
 · 
antipod

freelance cookie designer

Mar 29, 05 7:51 am  · 
 · 
crush

graduate school decision date.

Mar 29, 05 8:56 am  · 
 · 
rimotoon

a columbian drug lord.

Mar 29, 05 1:44 pm  · 
 · 
Tim DeCoster

I almost into training to be a pilot before I decided on arch. school.

I really want to be a secret agent.

Mar 29, 05 2:20 pm  · 
 · 
David Cuthbert

no mexican, child of a mexican drug lord - the columbian dont need green leaf activities to look legit

Mar 29, 05 2:25 pm  · 
 · 

Block this user


Are you sure you want to block this user and hide all related comments throughout the site?

Archinect


This is your first comment on Archinect. Your comment will be visible once approved.

  • ×Search in: