Thanks to everyone for sharing. Amazing.

A professor once told this to a fourth year architecture student.

"You need to change your major"

worth resurrecting

to me , in the same crit:

- you're the reason i'm going grey
- you're bob dylan, you can compose but you can't sing

ouch

some quotes from my experiences:

aimed at a classmate who was wearing brand-new, golden sneakers (you know, the asics-type): "your plan is exactly the same as your shoes: ugly capitalistic crap for people with no taste."

At a student doing his graduation project: "I just wonder how you get here in the first place. The other teachers must have been bribed by you or something... you should've been kicked out of this school some 10 semesters ago."

by a teacher who hadn't said anything worth-wile during the entire crits: "you know what I learned at MIT?" At this point we started to expect his first point of decent advise, but were proven wrong: "if you make a glue-pool instead of glueing on your model directly, it might look better."

Those were the first ones that came into my mind.

First year, first semester, first proyect : A house .Everyone went for "the poet´s house", "the artist´s house", etc), This geek made the "Sniper´s house.".

Prof: Why did you placed you proyect on this hill, and what the hell with all this windows. ?

Stud: Well, for a Sniper the most important thing is the view. But they are all tinted, to keep his identity.

He got expelled and became a legend.

...and he now makes $250 an hour consulting for the DoD.

"What scale is that?" "...oh that, thats a ruler?"

he got expelled? what a humour deficiency

Did that guy really use Crest Toothpaste to simulate a river in his model.

funny!!!!!

student: 'see...the plan is a metaphor'

prof: 'the metaphor is killing you'

professor: "nguh!"

ahhhha

minimalicious :

"Here's a quarter. Go call your mother and tell her you're not going to be in architecture anymore."


Either that is the most popular urban legend in architecture, or you know one of my professors who told (still tells) the same story. (..or you are my professor...)



the second time i heard the story (of the alleged college classmate of his) out of my (3x) professor's mouth was last summer when he reiterated it to the class of about 30 students during our first week of studio.


by the last week of summer studio in a crit he told a girl, ''... i take my quarter back!'

i think he meant it to be a sincere compliment, but i could only interpreted as '... i didn't think you'd make it, but then you learned revit!'

which i guess IS a sincere compliment from someone as lackluster as...

critic: this is a very very good example (to the rest of people)... you see how good an example this is ...?

student: thank you, thank you (blushing) thank you, i know i worked hard... thanks a lot






critic: of how NOT TO present your work in a crit....

"assume the position!"

i've seen/been involved with a few gems...

whilst taking a studio in second year, with a louis kahn fanatic, i ran across one of my first year professors after studio, who asked how i was doing...

"oh, i'm ok. i'm just waiting for the brick to 'tell me what it wants to be'..."

(with a grim expression) "if the brick starts talking back, you're going f*&*ing insane...."


had a professor once tell me, in front our entire studio at the gsd, that i was the only person in studio who was likely to join him in "the old fat guys club" one day (he was overweight but also just very big boned. i'm not quite 'big boned').

same professor, during another crit (not my studio) reportedly did the following: he was arguing with the student about a solitary window he had on the facade of his building "that window is just painfully obvious and centers your eye on it, not the facade" (student)-" i just don't see that at all" (critic) "it's as obvious as (and here, the critic gets up, walks over to the student, and draws a fat circle, with a pen, on the student's forehead, with a dot in the middle) that!!"

classic....