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I saw this idea on another forum and thought it’d be highly useful here.

In the interests of saving myself some time, and saving Archinect some server space, I provide below what I believe to be the top 50 answers to questions regularly - and repeatedly – asked here. I have bookmarked this posting for my own use. In future I shall simply quote the link, and the number of the answer corresponding to the question being asked.

Please feel free to use this list yourself, or add your own personalized variations.
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1. Black.

2. Anything but AutoCad.

3. Behind the concession stand at a Nirvana concert.

4. You know, I'm pretty sure Vado's expressed an opinion on that here before. Let me look it up and I'll post the link.

5. That topic's already been done to death. Have you bothered to use the search function?

6. Architects wouldn't be having all these problems if the public were better educated about architecture.

7. I'm pretty sure that won’t help you get laid.

8. Stone Pale Ale.

9. Insert "width=410" behind the image link - be sure to leave a space.

10. $37,350 in Chicago; a little higher in Manhattan. Don't expect much in the way of benefits. Yeah – I know - it’s disappointing.

11. Left.

12. The only f**king reason to join is to get those three little letters behind your name.

13. 7' 4-1/2"

14. Work there for six months so you can put it on your resume. Then get the hell out.

15. Oh god - not another UCLA vs. SCI-Arc thread?

16. Obama, for sure.

17. "Eisenman interpretes Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius in several self-serving ways, but he never comes to realize that on one level the Ichnographia Campus Martius is a gigantic test of Ancient Roman topography."

18. Have you stopped to consider that you might be a jackass?

19. Libeskind.

20. The hours are horrendous and the pay is crap - but it's totally worth it.

21. Good one, Stephen.

22. It’s important to get your degree from an Ivy - sure, it'll be expensive, but it's worth it for the contacts – plus, the name on your resume will open a lot of doors.

23. Lebbeus Woods.

24. Always use Helvetica; never use Arial.

25. An MBA might help.

26. No - licensure's not really important unless you want to be a real architect.

27. Developers suck.

28. Dude - chill out. If you want to design, you got to pay your dues.

29. Rhino.

30. If the AIA were doing its job, we'd all be making more money.

31. OMA - but not their New York office.

32. If you're really committed to your craft, money's not all that relevant.

33. S, M, L, XL

34. You must be a freaking moron. Save your money - go to a state school.

35. No more than one page, unless you've been working for 15+ years.

36. When you're stuck, take a moment and ask yourself "in this situation, what would Zaha do?"

37. Casillero del Diablo Cabernet.

38. Why would anybody actually pay for software?

39. It depends on how creative you are.

40. Get a Mac and you won't have that problem anymore.

41. Oh -- it'll probably take at least $80,000 from various sources. But, you'll have years to pay them off.

42. When you've been doing this as long as I have, you'll understand why that may be a stupid question.

43. Employers don't care where you went to school - they just want to be bedazzled by what's in your portfolio.

44. Have you tried Google? You can find a lot of stuff there.

45. Eisenman sucks.

46. Landscape - never portrait. Ever!

47. My cat.

48. The Fountainhead.

49. THAT school will never admit you if your portfolio uses a serif font - that's just the way it is - get over it.

50. ^^^ sarcasm

 
Aug 11, 08 1:04 pm
Ms Beary

7'-4-1/2"???

Aug 11, 08 7:03 pm  · 
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FOG Lite

Nothing about per? mdlr? liberty bell?

Recently Antitheses has pushed Rhino up at least 3 pegs.

And now I feel most my posts should end with a 50.

Aug 11, 08 11:26 pm  · 
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ARCHlTORTURE

^39

Aug 12, 08 12:44 pm  · 
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waterhouse
Aug 12, 08 1:04 pm  · 
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