huge cantilevers

everything has to be LEED certified... LEED airports, LEED hummer dealerships, LEED spaceport, LEED republican party HQ

i'm sick of everything; especially myself.

green bullshit

modernism

i second the green bullshit

conceited architects hating other architects and their work

can i tell you what i'm sick of?

bullshit designers who use overly glossy renderings and VR walk-thrus to get jobs but have actually NO FUCKING IDEA HOW TO PUT TOGETHER A SET OF LINCOLN LOGS let alone a restaurant.

no offense to you fine designers here on the 'nect...but sometimes architects make me nauseous. today we're dealing with just one of those specimens. sheesh...

oh so you got the cad files i emailed you. excellent.

so what you're saying is that one beam won't support my entire second floor? damnit, i was hoping it would be "open and flowing" on the first floor.

I second modernism.
it died in the sixties. stop trying to be 'modern' that concrete has cracked.

how about every human being telling me "If i could do it over again I would be an architect too"

yeah vado. thx! really...just awesome. really, really awesome.

The AIA

AIA Awards (can there really be such a thing)

FAIA individuals. Have you ever thought about who picks these guys and what their qualifications are? I want to be an "Fellow LEED" FLEED.

Lightweight translucent plastic. Let's find a groovy material and force it into a design concept.

Details that don't work because the designer is following lockstep in the current design trend "fashion".

I'm waiting for LEED to be retro, then I'll jump on the bandwagon.

Designs that use black force because the Architect is trying to be someone else. "You are the Other, dude".

Buildings that are designed around code only, dang, and engineer can do that. Oh pardon me, your carpet and vinyl cove base match... your FAIA material.

luxury condos

being poor

curved walls

critical theory

3D printing

architect's wives

hate 'em

blobs, curvy, snakey shapes that wrap from floor to wall to roof, those stupid digital models with people that look like they have been pulled out of a Sears catalogue.

sub zero fridges mattering more then quality of space (going along with strawberry)

3d-h, that is sooo....2005.

FLEE ... they should call it FLEE.

curved walls are probably actually retro by now, along with glass block; ever try to tell a contractor to build a curved wall out of anything else?

wavy walls, well, thats another story. but definitely cliche.

oh, but back to the cliches:

lebiskind
gehry
form
greenwashing
whitewashing
washing, in general.
budgets
jetsetters
jetsetters without budgets
diapers
non-prescription glasses

making shit look like old shit... i cant believe were still doing that! GO BUY SOME OLD SHIT IF YOU WANT IT TO LOOK LIKE OLD SHIT!!!

sorry.. its a touchy subject

given the nature of all this new shit...

Complaining?

haters

hip hop. fuck hip hop.

one of these in the driveway...

oops

totally

not having enough money for decent materials, but having enough money to put a reveal every 3 feet on the stucco and gypboard!

building codes
clients who destroy my beautiful architectural vision

it's like, buzz off!

ya... hate those building codes.. sure wouldn't want to be able to get out of a building during a fire!

...architects and critics who talk about architecture like it is sex. Building are described as a phallus or a vagina, and vertical circulation is described like a sexual maneuver from the Kama Sutra. Sex is sex architecture is not. Give me a break. I get it you like to have sex... so does everyone else. Or maybe, perhaps, you would like to have sex but just aren't.

and 3 story "Italian Villa" condos in Naples Florida....no where near Italy

This is a little late, but I'm hoppin' on the "Modernism is Over" bandwagon. I'm sick of it. Lets move on, shall we...

mdler-
what you got against the DS? it's a classic.

the 2cv is also outstanding.

khaki's and polo's

- open floor plans;
- concrete, steel & glass;
- expensive enormous open kitchens;
- converting pre-war apartment into the "chick NY loft"

granite FUCKING countertops! Why does every yuppie, sonofabitch, mcmansion living asshole have to have them!!!!

:AHEM: No offense to you fine folks if you have them though, we're cool right?

I have so many favorites from the above posts, its hard to pick my absolute favorite!!!

-making one building look like three, on the facade only.
-brick on the front, vinyl siding on the other three sides

And to continue p2's cliche:

...and never doing anything about it, aside from bitching and moaning.

wearing black

asymmetry

not exactly an architectural cliche, because architects have, for the most part, restrained themselves, but those that haven't ... and, really i can't help it ... immediately drop several notches on my respect-o-meter:

porcelain tile that looks like stone, looks 'tumbled', looks like anything except porcelain tile

i think a lot of architects are giving in as the stuff becomes ubiquitous. i've seen more of it appearing in otherwise very carefully considered projects. the only wrong note in mcdonough's recent project here in louisville.

resist! resist!

if that girl on the right is a cliche...well then cliches aren't so bad after all.