This is not a job offer, rather the opportunity for you to get your name out there by submitting articles on art+architecture that will be seen on up and coming website!
General Information:
Like it or not, there in another side of the political aisle that comes in contact with art+architecture everyday, and is sick of the liberal media bias. No matter who you think is right, or what side of the aisle you sit on, architecture exists on both.
Have you ever:
Ever read an article in Architectural Record and wonder why they cannot just give an honest and open critique of the building that the masses could understand?
Are you frustrated with what the "architectural critic" seems to say?
This is a great opportunity to put a new twist on architecture+art reviews.
Be honest. Tear apart a design everyone loves. Argue for the side of the common client. Critic a building without the words "flow" or "procession" appearing in the article.
THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL SITE, It is a site that covers everything from style to entertainment to art to technology.
This is an underserved audience who needs information; especially in the art and architecture department.
Please email me with a writing sample. (Please not more than one page.) and I will get back to you ASAP with writing requirements and general audience information.
architectural writing is as often done by professional writers as it is by architects and the words you excoriate are perfectly descriptive words readily available to all users of the english language - not just architects. they even mean the same thing!
i know that i (and i suspect many other architects) spend a lot of time talking to regular folks about the work we do. they may be facilities managers, high school students (career day today), newspaper reporters, or school board members. but what we talk about with them wouldn't sustain their attention through a magazine article, i'm afraid. there has to be some artfulness in the language of critical writing to grab and keep a reader's interest.
sounds like maybe you would like some plain-speak disparaging of projects you don't like. i'm sure you'll find plenty of people with opinions but i wouldn't expect it to be a very compelling read. you could just as easily check out the trolls who leave comments about any new project development in the online local paper. they're merciless! and unaccountable!
I completely agree actually. It's true that we need writing with eloquence, and the fact that it may not sound like Architectural Record is just a possibility. For some articles, it may sound like just that!
Your comments about the people who you observe posting at the end of the newspaper articles are a funny example. The fit the idea of what I DON'T want it to be.
But I believe there is balance in the middle somewhere. Just as there is media to consume out there already, there is something like this site where it can be a back and forth. There are other ways of presenting the information in these articles that looks from another point of view.
i'm sorry, what 'other' point of view are you trying to get at here? if you actually look at architectural criticism and journalism, you'll find that there are an enormous number of viewpoint available. The examples you've given suggest you want some nice juicy hatchet-jobs written in basic english. Is that more-or-less right? Why are you stereotyping 'the masses' like that?
My first reaction is why would I submit my writing to a website that offers such a poorly written thread announcing its creation. Please realize that writing goes beyond your "textlish" and step your game up.
Sounds like a great business plan. "Lifestyle and pop culture for a new generation." I wish I'd thought of it. There is such a huge market that is so uneducated that it can't understand all of editorial content already available. I'm glued to my computer just thinking of reading Joe the Plumber's critique of David Adjaye's MCA Denver. I bet the pipes are installed all wrong.
Ever read an article in Architectural Record and wonder why they cannot just give an honest and open critique of the building that the masses could understand?
the teaming reeking 'masses' not understanding Architectural Record? If you consider AR to be very high brow, then i wonder where you position brows anatomically.
"It is the opinion of the editors of this website that this is the finest conceptual drawing ever placed on our desks, three cheers to Speer, Hats off gentlemen, hats off!"
I agree with toasteroven. Has any of you read the article in the Wall Street Journal that came out September of last year about the difference between conservatives and liberals, and the cultural war between the two? For liberals, the article states, culture is going to the Guggenheim, for example. For conservatives, culture is following the discipline of faith to raise a family. Hmm. Poignant.
Now, if this article is correct, viewing architecture from a conservative point of view would just be a snark-fest, no? And, I can see liberal comments posted here being used to fuel their arguments of today's system overrun by angry left-wing professors leading us to Armageddon.
If, on the other hand, this new website reaches across the aisle, more power to you. We could probably start right now, here on archinect. Maybe starting from a point of common ground would help. Let's say, that point would be: making a happy future for the children of this world, and how design is helping move that forward.
Making a happy future for the children of this world.
Any Architecture Critics Out There? Get Your Name Out There!!
This is not a job offer, rather the opportunity for you to get your name out there by submitting articles on art+architecture that will be seen on up and coming website!
General Information:
Like it or not, there in another side of the political aisle that comes in contact with art+architecture everyday, and is sick of the liberal media bias. No matter who you think is right, or what side of the aisle you sit on, architecture exists on both.
Have you ever:
Ever read an article in Architectural Record and wonder why they cannot just give an honest and open critique of the building that the masses could understand?
Are you frustrated with what the "architectural critic" seems to say?
This is a great opportunity to put a new twist on architecture+art reviews.
Be honest. Tear apart a design everyone loves. Argue for the side of the common client. Critic a building without the words "flow" or "procession" appearing in the article.
THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL SITE, It is a site that covers everything from style to entertainment to art to technology.
This is an underserved audience who needs information; especially in the art and architecture department.
Please email me with a writing sample. (Please not more than one page.) and I will get back to you ASAP with writing requirements and general audience information.
[email protected]
"liberal media bias... THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL SITE"
oh, yes it is.
Both sides, liberals and conservatives, believe there is bias.
This site is serving a portion of the market.
My main point was: We will not be talking PRIMARILY politics.
This is the ART+ARCHITECTURE section.
my first reaction to the intro is:
chip, meet shoulder. shoulder, chip.
architectural writing is as often done by professional writers as it is by architects and the words you excoriate are perfectly descriptive words readily available to all users of the english language - not just architects. they even mean the same thing!
i know that i (and i suspect many other architects) spend a lot of time talking to regular folks about the work we do. they may be facilities managers, high school students (career day today), newspaper reporters, or school board members. but what we talk about with them wouldn't sustain their attention through a magazine article, i'm afraid. there has to be some artfulness in the language of critical writing to grab and keep a reader's interest.
sounds like maybe you would like some plain-speak disparaging of projects you don't like. i'm sure you'll find plenty of people with opinions but i wouldn't expect it to be a very compelling read. you could just as easily check out the trolls who leave comments about any new project development in the online local paper. they're merciless! and unaccountable!
good luck.
I completely agree actually. It's true that we need writing with eloquence, and the fact that it may not sound like Architectural Record is just a possibility. For some articles, it may sound like just that!
Your comments about the people who you observe posting at the end of the newspaper articles are a funny example. The fit the idea of what I DON'T want it to be.
But I believe there is balance in the middle somewhere. Just as there is media to consume out there already, there is something like this site where it can be a back and forth. There are other ways of presenting the information in these articles that looks from another point of view.
i'm sorry, what 'other' point of view are you trying to get at here? if you actually look at architectural criticism and journalism, you'll find that there are an enormous number of viewpoint available. The examples you've given suggest you want some nice juicy hatchet-jobs written in basic english. Is that more-or-less right? Why are you stereotyping 'the masses' like that?
My first reaction is why would I submit my writing to a website that offers such a poorly written thread announcing its creation. Please realize that writing goes beyond your "textlish" and step your game up.
Sounds like a great business plan. "Lifestyle and pop culture for a new generation." I wish I'd thought of it. There is such a huge market that is so uneducated that it can't understand all of editorial content already available. I'm glued to my computer just thinking of reading Joe the Plumber's critique of David Adjaye's MCA Denver. I bet the pipes are installed all wrong.
We need more positive outreach in our profession - not more vitriol.
the teaming reeking 'masses' not understanding Architectural Record? If you consider AR to be very high brow, then i wonder where you position brows anatomically.
What is a Republican doing using the word "masses" anyway, is that some kind of joke?
Is this whole project some kind of intellectual penis envy translated into web-form?
Why don't you build a beaux-art monument to your worthless bourgeois project so the "masses" can tear it down.
Is this a joke? I mean seriously?
'politicizing' criticism?
Is the hope that nothing ever gets built? That we all go buy Albert Speer monographs and pray to them every morning?
"It is the opinion of the editors of this website that this is the finest conceptual drawing ever placed on our desks, three cheers to Speer, Hats off gentlemen, hats off!"
ok, we're just being nasty now....
I agree with toasteroven. Has any of you read the article in the Wall Street Journal that came out September of last year about the difference between conservatives and liberals, and the cultural war between the two? For liberals, the article states, culture is going to the Guggenheim, for example. For conservatives, culture is following the discipline of faith to raise a family. Hmm. Poignant.
Now, if this article is correct, viewing architecture from a conservative point of view would just be a snark-fest, no? And, I can see liberal comments posted here being used to fuel their arguments of today's system overrun by angry left-wing professors leading us to Armageddon.
If, on the other hand, this new website reaches across the aisle, more power to you. We could probably start right now, here on archinect. Maybe starting from a point of common ground would help. Let's say, that point would be: making a happy future for the children of this world, and how design is helping move that forward.
Making a happy future for the children of this world.
Hey, it's worked between warring countries.
the pathos is overwhelming.
Zaha, will you please stop living?
-the editors
ooh, took that one too far. sorry folks.
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