I am starting a new thread that is about other threads. You can talk about other discussions taking a place in Archinect and make cross references to a particular link, picture, response and whatever else you deem necessary or entertaining or thought provoking about the other thread. thus the name: Thread Central
here are some examples of comments that comes to mind:
* hey did you read on --------- thread ------- thinks frank gehry is good. hahahaharhar..
or,
*i can't believe he said that. how stupid of him. asshole.on top of it he is got hundreds of posts. gimme a break.
or,
* this is the best thread.. fuck the others..
or,
*****Thread Alert******
read the -----thread yet??? there is a dog fight going on between ----- and-----.it is about gondolas and pollution in Venice..see you there.
or,
* yeaah, i don't read that thread either. its kind a boring.
or,
*i am thinking about starting a discussion about ------------- ---- ---- will you guys in Thread Central post in it and say wow it a great thread?. it was about time 'somebody' (insert my name please) picked up on it.. and discuss it?
like whatever..
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 23, 17 12:53 pm
Too many school threads must be scaring everyone away. :(
Philarct
Mar 23, 17 1:03 pm
I was checking the forum constantly when I was applying
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 23, 17 2:08 pm
I'm afraid I cannot relate... I walked by the arch studios at the school I was already in and thought hey this looks like fun and applied.
archiwutm8
Mar 27, 17 3:22 am
Mine was "Where can I get away with the most outrageous work?"
test not working, but there's a classic piss take of trump's lose fail over trying to screw over the one thing republicans did not fuck up for your last honest good president, is that a precident? (Hope)
S W
Mar 25, 17 9:54 pm
I say that as a British, we have a fake prime minister also.
-------
Mar 26, 17 1:31 am
I remember Judith Chafee coming up in a past thread and thought this brief documentary about her was interesting:
Woohoo, thanks jw468! Judith was amazing. What great news.
Nam Henderson
Mar 27, 17 6:21 pm
Man that Judith did some great work... Hi TC!
Nam Henderson
Mar 27, 17 7:47 pm
@Chris, good to hear. Although some of those alter-egos will be missed...
Donna Sink
Mar 27, 17 9:03 pm
Hi Chris! Glad to see you!
Marc Miller
Mar 27, 17 9:15 pm
Chris, how are things in Motherboard?
Nam Henderson
Mar 27, 17 11:35 pm
@Chris, I remember the email but not the specific content/links. Think it was sent from my old work email in Fl. Will try to find...
As for nihilism, I am no expert but I always preferred a more Advaita Vedantic or Zen Buddhist, "neti neti" take on negation.
Night all
Nam Henderson
Mar 28, 17 11:48 am
@Chris, can you send me an email from the address I would have sent the email to? So I can search all my accounts for emails to that address?
Morning TC.
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 28, 17 12:55 pm
I started meditating in college and have greatly increased my ability and frequency to do so in the last 3-4 years. My blood pressure is usually downright low after it used to be a little high for a long time. It takes practice, but that stuff Nam is talking about is golden.
No more energy drinks, Chris? You mentioned you were quitting... good for you.
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 28, 17 9:08 pm
Namaste
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 28, 17 12:58 pm
I'm on spring break in La La land. Cough cough. (Smog)
Josh Mings
Mar 30, 17 10:58 am
Stepped on the scale this morning and I've lost 30 lbs since the beginning of the year. That's a plus. It's been a good week so far. Had an uplifting dinner with my mentor yesterday and Tuesday participated in Prairie Grassroots and met with my state senator (and had a photo op with the governor, but didn't vote for him). How are things out in TC land?
Nam Henderson
Mar 30, 17 11:06 am
Things good in CO. Been getting a fair bit of rain lately, but I have a day off tomorrow and hoping to get my last ski day of year in... We shall see, definitely won't be powder!
Otherwise, now that I have fully settled into the new neighborhood starting to get plugged in with the official neighborhood organization and some other groups/initiatives related to sustainability/urbanism et al... Feeling generally excited about this year.
In terms of health/weight, just earned enough points to reach gold status in our company wellness plan. Which should equal a nice rebate/discount for my health insurance. As part of that had a wellness check and compared to last year all my numbers are trending in right direction and my wellness age is closer to my actual age. Just need to get more regularly physically active. Running once a week and a biking/walking isn't strenuous enough.
Everyday Intern
Mar 30, 17 12:00 pm
Found out this morning that I passed my last division of the ARE. Just need to send in my application and get registered with the state so I can do exactly the same work for no extra pay*. But at least I'll be able to mouth off to these young upstarts wanting to call themselves an architect to just go take the tests and get their license already.
*That's a little bit of a lie. My firm does pay out a small bonus upon licensure, and I intend to negotiate my way into a bigger salary as well. But I'll still be doing the same work. The point is that they've been underpaying me for the work I do, not that by virtue of a license I deserve more.
Non Sequitur
Mar 30, 17 12:17 pm
Congrats. Guinness Tonight!
tduds
Mar 30, 17 12:32 pm
Congrats! Gonna change your name to Everyday Architect??
I'm taking #4 on Monday. These can't be over fast enough...
Josh Mings
Mar 30, 17 12:46 pm
Congrats! Don't negotiate on a hangover.
Everyday Intern
Mar 30, 17 2:14 pm
Thanks all. Good luck tduds.
David Cole, AIA
Mar 30, 17 5:13 pm
Congrats!
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 30, 17 12:55 pm
Thanks for posting that the results are in. I just checked and I passed as well! Going to be doing the same thing I've been doing for years tho and have no one in real life to tell because nobody actually cares. My family and friends thought I was an architect when I was 19 years old oh so long ago when I got my first job. :)
Good luck tduds!
Non Sequitur
Mar 30, 17 12:59 pm
Congrats to you as well. Probably less guinness for you thou.
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 30, 17 1:16 pm
Thanks. Yeah, I'll forgo the Guinness and celebrate with a pregnant lady friendly lunch.
Everyday Intern
Mar 30, 17 2:16 pm
Congrats tintt! Your baby is due sometime soon, right?
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 30, 17 2:26 pm
Yes, I'm in the final stretch. 10 more weeks.
Everyday Intern
Mar 30, 17 2:31 pm
Hang in there ... those last weeks we were going crazy waiting but it will end at some point. We ended up needing to induce labor, but then it happened really fast.
Non Sequitur
Mar 30, 17 2:42 pm
10 weeks? Not sure if you remember... but mine came 6 weeks early. Time is going to start speeding by. 8-)
David Cole, AIA
Mar 30, 17 5:14 pm
Congrats!
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 30, 17 6:18 pm
I got a booze filled chocolate truffle hand delivered by a friend so I got to celebrate anyways.
My first baby was delivered on the due date so I hope I can repeat that!
Nam Henderson
Mar 30, 17 1:59 pm
Congrats tintt and Everyday!
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 30, 17 2:26 pm
Thanks!
Everyday Intern
Mar 30, 17 2:31 pm
Thanks Nam
ivorykeyboard
Mar 30, 17 3:45 pm
woo i just found out i passed all my AREs too. now i can be annoying and condescending...
honestly i am learning far more from renovating my home at the moment than i have with ARE 4.0. i think it's about time we consider a more rigorous apprenticeship approach, IDP/AXP is a joke.
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 30, 17 6:10 pm
Congrats! And agree that I also learned far more working on my own house.
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 30, 17 6:20 pm
And yes, IDP/AXP is a weak excuse for having a method of training emerging professionals.
Everyday Intern
Mar 30, 17 7:06 pm
That's no fair, I learned all that stuff by working on other people's houses before I finished school and even thought about IDP/AXP and the ARE ... let alone owned my own home.
Congrats to you too ivorykeyboard.
Donna Sink
Mar 30, 17 3:50 pm
Note to all you young fancy graphics lovers who have hot skilz with Rhino or whatever:
The more coats of paint something requires, the more expensive it will be, both material and labor.
No amount of Grasshopper can change those physics.
ivorykeyboard
Mar 30, 17 3:53 pm
ill write you a script (in grasshopper) that will reduce the amount of paint used with surface topology optimization though.
hot skilz
Donna Sink
Mar 31, 17 8:28 pm
I appreciate the effort, ivory! But that won't change the number of coats the coatings manufacturer requires to give a warranty and to guarantee that the project color will match the sample already approved. I mean: I know all kinds of great things are possible with parametrics. But we still operate in a physical world, and until the building-bots can *entirely* fabricate the thing we design (a day I'm excited about), we have to deal with humans and standards and the physics those standards are based on.
Donna Sink
Mar 30, 17 3:53 pm
...and now that I got that rant out I can go back and read/respond to all the good news above.
Donna Sink
Mar 30, 17 3:57 pm
Josh: yay for weight loss and for being involved at Grassroots! It's so important that we are faced in front of our legislators.
Donna Sink
Mar 30, 17 3:57 pm
Nam: yay for feeling connected to your community! And for being healthy too!
Donna Sink
Mar 30, 17 4:05 pm
Everyday Intern-no-more: WOOHOOOO!!!!
tintt:WOOHOOOO!!!!!
ivorykeyboard:WOOHOOOO!!!!!
God honestly getting that license is THE BEST feeling. Congratulations on completing the slog. It's really, really important and meaningful, even if our family and friends don't recall "get it".
My friend Lora was on the Young Architect podcast recently (google it) and spoke about our Indiana licensing ceremony we have every year. We have it in The War Memorial (a very fancy public space but free for us to rent), have snacks and a musician for the reception, have a brief keynote speech like at graduation, and have a member of the licensing board officiate. The newly-registered architects have to stand and take the oath (Indiana had one) and it is truly moving. Lora talks about how that ceremony makes the family members understand better just how big of a deal licensure is!
So congratulations you guys!!!! Find your state oath and recite it at your next happy hour!!
Josh Mings
Mar 30, 17 4:31 pm
Yeah, we don't get that in Illinois. Maybe I'll get my Indiana license too (need it if I want to get something of my design built in Columbus).
Donna Sink
Mar 31, 17 8:23 pm
I'm sorry, Josh. I should have mentioned the ceremony is only for first-time licensees, not reciprocals. But you should get an Indiana license anyway! Columbus is busy! I assume you'e coming for the Exhibit Columbus installations at some point this year? We should meet up.
tduds
Mar 30, 17 4:18 pm
Donna that sounds fun.
I think there's something to be said for celebration & little rituals when it comes to things like this. I buy myself a nice bottle of scotch after each exam. A friend of mine had a "Stamping Party" when she got her license (We all got our hands stamped, among other things). I might follow suit, maybe it'll become a tradition!
Josh Mings
Mar 30, 17 4:32 pm
I bought and played with Legos/drank gin after every exam. I should do that more often.
Non Sequitur
Mar 31, 17 8:21 am
I also did that following my exams.
b3tadine[sutures]
Mar 30, 17 4:37 pm
Congrats to all the new architects!
David Cole, AIA
Mar 30, 17 5:20 pm
Congrats to the new architects!
I wish Ohio had a ceremony like that, although I'm not sure I would've driven up to Columbus for the occasion. (I was already well into plotting my escape to Seattle at that point, and wanted nothing to do with the State of Ohio. I still don't.)
When I logged into the online portal and learned that, after 20 years of education and CAD monkey work, I finally finally a registered architect, I excitedly told the project manager who happened to be sitting closest to me at the office. Without looking up, he simply said, "Well, it's not too late to become a product rep" and went back to reviewing submittals.
Josh Mings
Mar 30, 17 6:05 pm
I got champagne, cupcakes, and a mylar graduation balloon with architect pasted over graduate. Not a bad office celebration. (sounds like that PM hates his job)
David Cole, AIA
Mar 30, 17 6:09 pm
I think pretty much everybody in that office hated their job. By contrast: At my current firm here in Seattle, during our holiday party they recognized all the architects who had gotten registered over the previous year, and since I had gotten reciprocal registration in WA during that time, I was included. Always feels good to get a shout-out.
Wilma Buttfit
Mar 30, 17 6:22 pm
Funny!
Everyday Intern
Mar 30, 17 7:12 pm
That product rep comment made my day, thanks David (and the PM who hates his job).
Donna Sink
Mar 31, 17 8:24 pm
That kind of architect - self-hating - is my least favorite kind of architect.
David Cole, AIA
Apr 1, 17 1:42 am
My biggest motivation for leaving that gig and getting into a design-oriented firm on the west coast was to avoid becoming one of those types.
Wilma Buttfit
Apr 1, 17 12:18 pm
^ If I worked full time I would already make that much and have for years. I was actually looking into getting a real estate agent license now just for fun. It only takes a few weeks and one test. I prefer lifestyle and freedom over money. Now if I can make that much working part time with kids in tow, that'll be something to celebrate.
wurdan freo
Apr 1, 17 5:30 pm
Hey Tintt congrats!
I also toyed with getting my real estate license, but it is far from a part time job. The best realtors hustle like no bodies business. You're networking. You're holding open houses on weekends. You're showing houses nights and weekends. You're constantly bird dogging for buyers and sellers. The major benefit is when you do your own develop ments you can gain better market insight, opportunities come to you and you have that additional profit center.
Wilma Buttfit
Apr 1, 17 6:04 pm
Thanks! I wouldn't get the real estate license to be an open house having realtor, I would do it just for the experience and knowledge to work better with developers and maybe to buy and sell my own house. It would be another very part time thing. I'm no hustler, I could never actually be a realtor. Eventually perhaps a developer though.
Donna Sink
Apr 3, 17 7:45 am
Can you give an example Chris?
Donna Sink
Apr 3, 17 8:53 am
Who is "you"?
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 4, 17 9:02 am
What I am finding, as of late, is that a certain group of "architects" can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
You probably should've done more all-nighters.
Non Sequitur
Apr 4, 17 9:43 am
chewing gum is hard work. They should have given me a chewing license after grade 3.
Wilma Buttfit
Apr 4, 17 11:23 am
I can walk and chew gum no problem but I can't tie my shoes. Not kidding.
Josh Mings
Apr 4, 17 11:21 am
I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum.
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 4, 17 8:54 pm
Any self respecting Jersey boy knows that he gets his drugs from Christian Brothers Academy.
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 5, 17 9:14 am
The code word was; Saint Dorothea is for weekenders.
a fellow architect (old guy, faia) sent out a mass email to an aia committee that I'm on looking for an architect to mediate a dispute over leasable area calculations per boma.
it sounds like easy $$$ to me, anything i need to watch out for?
senjohnblutarsky
Apr 5, 17 1:35 pm
Do you have a copy of the BOMA standard? Depending on how the building is leased out/layed out, it gets more complicated.
shellarchitect
Apr 5, 17 9:34 pm
i do, boma can be very complicated. question boils down to - is an existing mezzanine part of gla? tenant says no, owner says yes.
geezertect
Apr 7, 17 6:58 am
If it was "easy" they wouldn't need you.
shellarchitect
Apr 7, 17 8:34 am
contract states that in the case of a dispute, a third architect will mediate... they don't need "me" but they do need someone with a stamp who is familiar with boma and willing to do the work. I'm familiar with boma and am willing to use vacation time for the money involved
A step in the right direction toward mending relations maybe?
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 6, 17 10:39 pm
With Trump, or Russia?
archietechie
Apr 7, 17 2:33 am
Trump w/ Russia.
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 7, 17 3:04 pm
Um, yeah, no. If they were any closer, Trump would be pregnant.
archietechie
Apr 12, 17 8:06 am
Awww how cute...someone's jealous!
Donna Sink
Apr 6, 17 9:01 pm
Feeling deeply depressed over the supreme court thing. Like everything is broken and the assholes always, always win.
Donna Sink
Apr 6, 17 9:48 pm
And now we're bombing Syria. Jeezus Christ.
shellarchitect
Apr 7, 17 8:21 am
i assume no interest in a war, but what is your preferred
action?
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 7, 17 10:42 am
Article 1, Section 8
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
Congress.
Europe.
Not this fucking President, or any other.
wurdan freo
Apr 7, 17 1:35 pm
Seriously. What is your preferred action. Gas was used in 2010 by the same fucker and Obama let the Russians handle it. Ate lunch at Damascus restaurant today in Denver and the Owner had 11 of his family members die in the gas attacks.
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 7, 17 2:12 pm
No. What's YOUR plan? I defer to the document that Republicans batter the fuck out of Libs with, The Constitution.
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 7, 17 2:23 pm
Seriously, 500k people before Tuesday died, and all I've been reading about, now we should bomb. How about you volunteer, I'm done supplying the VA with new, broken service members.
Andrew.Circle
Apr 7, 17 4:10 pm
Send McCain's daughter. If Americans and Syrians have to die for this bs, might as well start with her.
Donna Sink
Apr 7, 17 7:51 am
Current mood: Driving to work yelling "Fuck you!" at the radio every time I hear rump's voice.
shellarchitect
Apr 7, 17 8:22 am
i've
started listing to canadian public radio in the morning, far more relaxing!
Josh Mings
Apr 7, 17 10:44 am
Right there with you Donna, although this particular instance I'd be yelling that at Hillary too since she also called for military action.
Andrew.Circle
Apr 7, 17 3:28 pm
it would be nice if an investigation was undertaken, maybe even completed, before the president unilaterally orders missiles fired at another country.
Josh Mings
Apr 7, 17 4:55 pm
I'm not debating that something shouldn't be done to Assad - far from it. He needs to be brought before the Hague. I just don't want to see another war that just furthers the suffering and humanitarian crisis already present. Don't we have seals that could have just taken him out and installed a US picked government like we used to do (joking...kind of)?
They need to stop releasing images of Zumthor's LACMA, if possible. While I expect that the final result may be sublime, it's hard to get excited about these views they provide.
Donna Sink
Apr 8, 17 3:32 pm
You guys, I just can't with Schumacher any more. I don't really care what he has to say, I feel like I've heard enough of him to last a lifetime already. But....
He just announced on FB that he did a series of podcasts with a libertarian-architecture focused group. Again, my first thought is UGH I just caaaaaaann't.....but I've been listening lately to The Liberty Fund's podcast, which is hosted by a libertarian dude. While he and I disagree on a LOT we also agree on a lot. I think of him as a smarter form of libertarianism, not the immersed-in-Randian superheroman (it's always a man) that most libertarians are.
So, do I listen to the libertari-anarcho-architecture podcast, or do I NOT waste my time and instead listen to another episode of The Lemonade, where I ALWAYS learn something new?
Donna Sink
Apr 8, 17 3:44 pm
Update: Decided to try it. I'm 8 minutes in - Patrick hasn't even started talking yet - and I've already guffawed out loud twice. I suspect it might be an elaborate parody. I'm not linking to it here because I honestly fear that the host - who is apparently an RA - might follow the link and invade TC and I really don't want that to happen. I'll update if I manage to get through more of it.
bikebicycle
Apr 9, 17 11:57 am
Libertarianism is something that is mostly for immature white men with no real life experience and complete ignorance of their own privilege. Schumacher apparently thinks that turning everything into Honduras and Somalia would be good for the profession.
Wilma Buttfit
Apr 9, 17 5:21 pm
The doctor gave me morphine during labor. Therefore, opiates aren't' bad for you. Soda is worse.
Wilma Buttfit
Apr 9, 17 7:07 pm
Soda + opiates are twice as fun.
Nam Henderson
Apr 9, 17 5:51 pm
Hi TC! I am having a real low-key, lazy Sunday.
@Donna you have a link for that podcast?
Also, came across this quote (via Carrie Brownstein) recently and thought of you.
"Close-toed shoes are very important. I am not a fan of flip-flops on planes."
@Steven not sure if it's because it is LACMA (and thus just getting more publicity) but I can't think of another of his projects that have been so underwhelming in terms of the images/plans released early on, previously.
Wilma Buttfit
Apr 9, 17 7:06 pm
It's been so windy today. Tried to ride bikes at the park and got too tired.
I am starting a new thread that is about other threads. You can talk about other discussions taking a place in Archinect and make cross references to a particular link, picture, response and whatever else you deem necessary or entertaining or thought provoking about the other thread. thus the name: Thread Central
here are some examples of comments that comes to mind:
* hey did you read on --------- thread ------- thinks frank gehry is good. hahahaharhar..
or,
*i can't believe he said that. how stupid of him. asshole.on top of it he is got hundreds of posts. gimme a break.
or,
* this is the best thread.. fuck the others..
or,
*****Thread Alert******
read the -----thread yet??? there is a dog fight going on between ----- and-----.it is about gondolas and pollution in Venice..see you there.
or,
* yeaah, i don't read that thread either. its kind a boring.
or,
*i am thinking about starting a discussion about ------------- ---- ---- will you guys in Thread Central post in it and say wow it a great thread?. it was about time 'somebody' (insert my name please) picked up on it.. and discuss it?
like whatever..
Too many school threads must be scaring everyone away. :(
I was checking the forum constantly when I was applying
I'm afraid I cannot relate... I walked by the arch studios at the school I was already in and thought hey this looks like fun and applied.
Mine was "Where can I get away with the most outrageous work?"
Interesting piece:
https://archpaper.com/2017/01/pablo-escobar-son-architect/
I can't figure out how to post a Tweet here on Archinect. It comes in as gibberish every time.
https://twitter.com/BeSeriousUSA/status/845641315509452800
test not working, but there's a classic piss take of trump's lose fail over trying to screw over the one thing republicans did not fuck up for your last honest good president, is that a precident? (Hope)
I say that as a British, we have a fake prime minister also.
I remember Judith Chafee coming up in a past thread and thought this brief documentary about her was interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbElliuXW0A
Apparently a book is in the works.
Woohoo, thanks jw468! Judith was amazing. What great news.
Man that Judith did some great work... Hi TC!
@Chris, good to hear. Although some of those alter-egos will be missed...
Hi Chris! Glad to see you!
Chris, how are things in Motherboard?
@Chris, I remember the email but not the specific content/links. Think it was sent from my old work email in Fl. Will try to find...
As for nihilism, I am no expert but I always preferred a more Advaita Vedantic or Zen Buddhist, "neti neti" take on negation.
Night all
@Chris, can you send me an email from the address I would have sent the email to? So I can search all my accounts for emails to that address?
Morning TC.
I started meditating in college and have greatly increased my ability and frequency to do so in the last 3-4 years. My blood pressure is usually downright low after it used to be a little high for a long time. It takes practice, but that stuff Nam is talking about is golden.
No more energy drinks, Chris? You mentioned you were quitting... good for you.
Namaste
I'm on spring break in La La land. Cough cough. (Smog)
Stepped on the scale this morning and I've lost 30 lbs since the beginning of the year. That's a plus. It's been a good week so far. Had an uplifting dinner with my mentor yesterday and Tuesday participated in Prairie Grassroots and met with my state senator (and had a photo op with the governor, but didn't vote for him). How are things out in TC land?
Things good in CO. Been getting a fair bit of rain lately, but I have a day off tomorrow and hoping to get my last ski day of year in... We shall see, definitely won't be powder!
Otherwise, now that I have fully settled into the new neighborhood starting to get plugged in with the official neighborhood organization and some other groups/initiatives related to sustainability/urbanism et al... Feeling generally excited about this year.
In terms of health/weight, just earned enough points to reach gold status in our company wellness plan. Which should equal a nice rebate/discount for my health insurance. As part of that had a wellness check and compared to last year all my numbers are trending in right direction and my wellness age is closer to my actual age. Just need to get more regularly physically active. Running once a week and a biking/walking isn't strenuous enough.
Found out this morning that I passed my last division of the ARE. Just need to send in my application and get registered with the state so I can do exactly the same work for no extra pay*. But at least I'll be able to mouth off to these young upstarts wanting to call themselves an architect to just go take the tests and get their license already.
*That's a little bit of a lie. My firm does pay out a small bonus upon licensure, and I intend to negotiate my way into a bigger salary as well. But I'll still be doing the same work. The point is that they've been underpaying me for the work I do, not that by virtue of a license I deserve more.
Congrats. Guinness Tonight!
Congrats! Gonna change your name to Everyday Architect??
I'm taking #4 on Monday. These can't be over fast enough...
Congrats! Don't negotiate on a hangover.
Thanks all. Good luck tduds.
Congrats!
Thanks for posting that the results are in. I just checked and I passed as well! Going to be doing the same thing I've been doing for years tho and have no one in real life to tell because nobody actually cares. My family and friends thought I was an architect when I was 19 years old oh so long ago when I got my first job. :)
Good luck tduds!
Congrats to you as well. Probably less guinness for you thou.
Thanks. Yeah, I'll forgo the Guinness and celebrate with a pregnant lady friendly lunch.
Congrats tintt! Your baby is due sometime soon, right?
Yes, I'm in the final stretch. 10 more weeks.
Hang in there ... those last weeks we were going crazy waiting but it will end at some point. We ended up needing to induce labor, but then it happened really fast.
10 weeks? Not sure if you remember... but mine came 6 weeks early. Time is going to start speeding by. 8-)
Congrats!
I got a booze filled chocolate truffle hand delivered by a friend so I got to celebrate anyways.
My first baby was delivered on the due date so I hope I can repeat that!
Congrats tintt and Everyday!
Thanks!
Thanks Nam
woo i just found out i passed all my AREs too. now i can be annoying and condescending...
honestly i am learning far more from renovating my home at the moment than i have with ARE 4.0. i think it's about time we consider a more rigorous apprenticeship approach, IDP/AXP is a joke.
Congrats! And agree that I also learned far more working on my own house.
And yes, IDP/AXP is a weak excuse for having a method of training emerging professionals.
That's no fair, I learned all that stuff by working on other people's houses before I finished school and even thought about IDP/AXP and the ARE ... let alone owned my own home.
Congrats to you too ivorykeyboard.
Note to all you young fancy graphics lovers who have hot skilz with Rhino or whatever:
The more coats of paint something requires, the more expensive it will be, both material and labor.
No amount of Grasshopper can change those physics.
ill write you a script (in grasshopper) that will reduce the amount of paint used with surface topology optimization though.
hot skilz
I appreciate the effort, ivory! But that won't change the number of coats the coatings manufacturer requires to give a warranty and to guarantee that the project color will match the sample already approved. I mean: I know all kinds of great things are possible with parametrics. But we still operate in a physical world, and until the building-bots can *entirely* fabricate the thing we design (a day I'm excited about), we have to deal with humans and standards and the physics those standards are based on.
...and now that I got that rant out I can go back and read/respond to all the good news above.
Josh: yay for weight loss and for being involved at Grassroots! It's so important that we are faced in front of our legislators.
Nam: yay for feeling connected to your community! And for being healthy too!
Everyday Intern-no-more: WOOHOOOO!!!!
tintt:WOOHOOOO!!!!!
ivorykeyboard:WOOHOOOO!!!!!
God honestly getting that license is THE BEST feeling. Congratulations on completing the slog. It's really, really important and meaningful, even if our family and friends don't recall "get it".
My friend Lora was on the Young Architect podcast recently (google it) and spoke about our Indiana licensing ceremony we have every year. We have it in The War Memorial (a very fancy public space but free for us to rent), have snacks and a musician for the reception, have a brief keynote speech like at graduation, and have a member of the licensing board officiate. The newly-registered architects have to stand and take the oath (Indiana had one) and it is truly moving. Lora talks about how that ceremony makes the family members understand better just how big of a deal licensure is!
So congratulations you guys!!!! Find your state oath and recite it at your next happy hour!!
Yeah, we don't get that in Illinois. Maybe I'll get my Indiana license too (need it if I want to get something of my design built in Columbus).
I'm sorry, Josh. I should have mentioned the ceremony is only for first-time licensees, not reciprocals. But you should get an Indiana license anyway! Columbus is busy! I assume you'e coming for the Exhibit Columbus installations at some point this year? We should meet up.
Donna that sounds fun.
I think there's something to be said for celebration & little rituals when it comes to things like this. I buy myself a nice bottle of scotch after each exam. A friend of mine had a "Stamping Party" when she got her license (We all got our hands stamped, among other things). I might follow suit, maybe it'll become a tradition!
I bought and played with Legos/drank gin after every exam. I should do that more often.
I also did that following my exams.
Congrats to all the new architects!
Congrats to the new architects!
I wish Ohio had a ceremony like that, although I'm not sure I would've driven up to Columbus for the occasion. (I was already well into plotting my escape to Seattle at that point, and wanted nothing to do with the State of Ohio. I still don't.)
When I logged into the online portal and learned that, after 20 years of education and CAD monkey work, I finally finally a registered architect, I excitedly told the project manager who happened to be sitting closest to me at the office. Without looking up, he simply said, "Well, it's not too late to become a product rep" and went back to reviewing submittals.
I got champagne, cupcakes, and a mylar graduation balloon with architect pasted over graduate. Not a bad office celebration. (sounds like that PM hates his job)
I think pretty much everybody in that office hated their job. By contrast: At my current firm here in Seattle, during our holiday party they recognized all the architects who had gotten registered over the previous year, and since I had gotten reciprocal registration in WA during that time, I was included. Always feels good to get a shout-out.
Funny!
That product rep comment made my day, thanks David (and the PM who hates his job).
That kind of architect - self-hating - is my least favorite kind of architect.
My biggest motivation for leaving that gig and getting into a design-oriented firm on the west coast was to avoid becoming one of those types.
^ If I worked full time I would already make that much and have for years. I was actually looking into getting a real estate agent license now just for fun. It only takes a few weeks and one test. I prefer lifestyle and freedom over money. Now if I can make that much working part time with kids in tow, that'll be something to celebrate.
Hey Tintt congrats! I also toyed with getting my real estate license, but it is far from a part time job. The best realtors hustle like no bodies business. You're networking. You're holding open houses on weekends. You're showing houses nights and weekends. You're constantly bird dogging for buyers and sellers. The major benefit is when you do your own develop ments you can gain better market insight, opportunities come to you and you have that additional profit center.
Thanks! I wouldn't get the real estate license to be an open house having realtor, I would do it just for the experience and knowledge to work better with developers and maybe to buy and sell my own house. It would be another very part time thing. I'm no hustler, I could never actually be a realtor. Eventually perhaps a developer though.
Can you give an example Chris?
Who is "you"?
What I am finding, as of late, is that a certain group of "architects" can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
You probably should've done more all-nighters.
chewing gum is hard work. They should have given me a chewing license after grade 3.
I can walk and chew gum no problem but I can't tie my shoes. Not kidding.
I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum.
Any self respecting Jersey boy knows that he gets his drugs from Christian Brothers Academy.
The code word was; Saint Dorothea is for weekenders.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/04/the-property-billboards-that-reveal-the-truth-about-britains-luxury-housing-market
a fellow architect (old guy, faia) sent out a mass email to an aia committee that I'm on looking for an architect to mediate a dispute over leasable area calculations per boma.
it sounds like easy $$$ to me, anything i need to watch out for?
Do you have a copy of the BOMA standard? Depending on how the building is leased out/layed out, it gets more complicated.
i do, boma can be very complicated. question boils down to - is an existing mezzanine part of gla? tenant says no, owner says yes.
If it was "easy" they wouldn't need you.
contract states that in the case of a dispute, a third architect will mediate... they don't need "me" but they do need someone with a stamp who is familiar with boma and willing to do the work. I'm familiar with boma and am willing to use vacation time for the money involved
AIA+Trump = Russia?
A step in the right direction toward mending relations maybe?
With Trump, or Russia?
Trump w/ Russia.
Um, yeah, no. If they were any closer, Trump would be pregnant.
Awww how cute...someone's jealous!
Feeling deeply depressed over the supreme court thing. Like everything is broken and the assholes always, always win.
And now we're bombing Syria. Jeezus Christ.
i assume no interest in a war, but what is your preferred action?
Article 1, Section 8
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
Congress.
Europe.
Not this fucking President, or any other.
Seriously. What is your preferred action. Gas was used in 2010 by the same fucker and Obama let the Russians handle it. Ate lunch at Damascus restaurant today in Denver and the Owner had 11 of his family members die in the gas attacks.
No. What's YOUR plan? I defer to the document that Republicans batter the fuck out of Libs with, The Constitution.
Seriously, 500k people before Tuesday died, and all I've been reading about, now we should bomb. How about you volunteer, I'm done supplying the VA with new, broken service members.
Send McCain's daughter. If Americans and Syrians have to die for this bs, might as well start with her.
Current mood: Driving to work yelling "Fuck you!" at the radio every time I hear rump's voice.
i've started listing to canadian public radio in the morning, far more relaxing!
Right there with you Donna, although this particular instance I'd be yelling that at Hillary too since she also called for military action.
it would be nice if an investigation was undertaken, maybe even completed, before the president unilaterally orders missiles fired at another country.
I'm not debating that something shouldn't be done to Assad - far from it. He needs to be brought before the Hague. I just don't want to see another war that just furthers the suffering and humanitarian crisis already present. Don't we have seals that could have just taken him out and installed a US picked government like we used to do (joking...kind of)?
I made a chart:
A Visual History of Filibustered Nominees
Sure puts things in perspective.
Oh tduds, stop with your completely accurate fact collating. It's painful for those cheetoflakes, and kuck fetishists to read.
Hi all you fancy graphics lovers!
Listen kommradski, no kompromat here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0
They need to stop releasing images of Zumthor's LACMA, if possible. While I expect that the final result may be sublime, it's hard to get excited about these views they provide.
You guys, I just can't with Schumacher any more. I don't really care what he has to say, I feel like I've heard enough of him to last a lifetime already. But....
He just announced on FB that he did a series of podcasts with a libertarian-architecture focused group. Again, my first thought is UGH I just caaaaaaann't.....but I've been listening lately to The Liberty Fund's podcast, which is hosted by a libertarian dude. While he and I disagree on a LOT we also agree on a lot. I think of him as a smarter form of libertarianism, not the immersed-in-Randian superheroman (it's always a man) that most libertarians are.
So, do I listen to the libertari-anarcho-architecture podcast, or do I NOT waste my time and instead listen to another episode of The Lemonade, where I ALWAYS learn something new?
Update: Decided to try it. I'm 8 minutes in - Patrick hasn't even started talking yet - and I've already guffawed out loud twice. I suspect it might be an elaborate parody. I'm not linking to it here because I honestly fear that the host - who is apparently an RA - might follow the link and invade TC and I really don't want that to happen. I'll update if I manage to get through more of it.
Libertarianism is something that is mostly for immature white men with no real life experience and complete ignorance of their own privilege. Schumacher apparently thinks that turning everything into Honduras and Somalia would be good for the profession.
The doctor gave me morphine during labor. Therefore, opiates aren't' bad for you. Soda is worse.
Soda + opiates are twice as fun.
Hi TC! I am having a real low-key, lazy Sunday.
@Donna you have a link for that podcast?
Also, came across this quote (via Carrie Brownstein) recently and thought of you.
"Close-toed shoes are very important. I am not a fan of flip-flops on planes."
@Steven not sure if it's because it is LACMA (and thus just getting more publicity) but I can't think of another of his projects that have been so underwhelming in terms of the images/plans released early on, previously.
It's been so windy today. Tried to ride bikes at the park and got too tired.