o, because i have a pet peeve against when people refer to their cities by the airport codes... ("i live in BOS" or "i'm visiting SFO this weekend" or "i'm moving to PEK"). i get confused because i refer to the airports by these codes ... not the cities. it's kinda like saying "i lived in grand central for a while but then i moved cross-country to union station"
holz> peking is named by the foreigners centuries ago.... until now China opens up her door to the world, she decided to used beijing as a translation from putonghua.
A fellow studio member has interned there and talks about it incessantly, as one would assume a student would.
"they are doing this, ... we did that....I did this.."
I suppose it depends on what you want to get out of it.
He mentioned he had to beg for some sort of rec' letter, which in the end was just a standardized piece of paper that basically said he interned there.
specifically, r u only interested in working in Beijing?
what i know is MAD pays badly.... in stead of working for MAD, i would prefer to work for Zaha Hadid... well, still pay not well, but at least u get to access to great facilities, great cultural resource from the city. things are quite restricted in Peijing tho....as a foriegner, i dont know if you would enjoy it...
working for MAD
anyone interned at MAD in bj? what were your experiences like?
is the nickname for beijing really BJ?!? why not PEK?
o, because i have a pet peeve against when people refer to their cities by the airport codes... ("i live in BOS" or "i'm visiting SFO this weekend" or "i'm moving to PEK"). i get confused because i refer to the airports by these codes ... not the cities. it's kinda like saying "i lived in grand central for a while but then i moved cross-country to union station"
holz> peking is named by the foreigners centuries ago.... until now China opens up her door to the world, she decided to used beijing as a translation from putonghua.
ds96, language evolves with technology... bj,pek, those are sms/chatroom language to save time typewriting it.
i know.
PEK is the formal iata designation for beijing.
BJ is really an unfortunate shortcut for beijing.
A fellow studio member has interned there and talks about it incessantly, as one would assume a student would.
"they are doing this, ... we did that....I did this.."
I suppose it depends on what you want to get out of it.
He mentioned he had to beg for some sort of rec' letter, which in the end was just a standardized piece of paper that basically said he interned there.
i think the work of MAD is quite
1. shadow,
2. lack of substance,
3. trend followers!
i would probably see the same for those interns came out from their office.
wow ok
anyone better to work for in BJ?
this thread has gone off topic, majorly.
so let's just call it Beijing and that's that.
specifically, r u only interested in working in Beijing?
what i know is MAD pays badly.... in stead of working for MAD, i would prefer to work for Zaha Hadid... well, still pay not well, but at least u get to access to great facilities, great cultural resource from the city. things are quite restricted in Peijing tho....as a foriegner, i dont know if you would enjoy it...
yes BJ is one of the local nicknames for beijing. you can even buy i heart BJ t-shirts, similar the NY ones. hilarious.
yes there are other firms in Beijing to intern/work for:
OMA
Pei Zhu
Urbansu
Steven Holl
SPARCH (formerly Alsop's Asian office)
some corporate firms:
woods baggot
GMP
ETC.
oopps. Urbanus
also:
Standard Architects
alsop relocated to rmjm,, hes bouncing around these days
also
Ai Weiwei
DnA
isn't rmjm like bad corporatey? like sparch is at least decent.
Ai Weiwei is great, but prepare to got beat up and arrested by the corrupted PRC police
i know that MAD pay 0 or close to that for interns
does anyone know the range for project architects?
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