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
Sep 27, 17 10:32 am
It is a party, random, and you're invited.
Non Sequitur
Sep 27, 17 10:34 am
It's a great party. just BYOB.
randomised
Sep 27, 17 11:05 am
What a warm welcome, cheers!
Nam Henderson
Sep 27, 17 8:39 pm
Why not the Dutch? Is random?
Also, TC always felt more like the Archinect Cheers, than a "party". Unless it is a casual backyard party with friends.
randomised
Sep 27, 17 11:36 pm
Yes I am and I don't like 'em either :)
Bench
Sep 28, 17 5:07 am
Wasn't it the sex pistols manager who said something about especially hating the Dutch?
randomised
Sep 28, 17 6:58 am
Hating? He loved "us" double!
Nam Henderson
Sep 29, 17 12:29 am
This is a great song! Surprisingly (at least to me), while I know who McLaren is, I have never heard this (AFAIN)...
wurdan freo
Sep 28, 17 12:53 pm
OMG!!! Without getting into details my mother-in-law decided yesterday that she needed to buy a house... like start making offers today. She wants to buy an over priced mcmansion in a 55 and up community... total tunnel vision for the most sterile form of living imaginable... I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...how do you save people from themselves!!!! FFS!!!
Miles Jaffe
Sep 28, 17 1:10 pm
Poof! Chester the butthead and his Nova Scotia hovel just got zapped into the void.
JLC-1
Sep 28, 17 1:13 pm
we need a strategy to make it last longer.
Non Sequitur
Sep 28, 17 1:16 pm
I did not know that Nova Scotia had such low levels of ignorance and bigotry.
Miles Jaffe
Sep 28, 17 1:16 pm
For $1500 it lasts a looooong time.
randomised
Sep 28, 17 1:53 pm
Darn, I missed all the fun, why do those things always happen during dinner?
Non Sequitur
Sep 28, 17 1:54 pm
move to a better time zone.
randomised
Sep 28, 17 3:04 pm
I know [time zones]. I have the best [time zone].
Donna Sink
Oct 1, 17 2:03 pm
I missed all of this. Disappointed, or lucky?
Miles Jaffe
Oct 1, 17 5:11 pm
Disappointed. It was an astounding display of an adult's
adolescent entitlement turned to rage
randomised
Oct 3, 17 6:22 am
"It was an astounding display of an adult's adolescent entitlement turned to rage"
Some might call it Thursday
randomised
Oct 11, 17 3:35 am
.
wurdan freo
Sep 28, 17 1:12 pm
just as it was getting good :(
Non Sequitur
Sep 28, 17 1:19 pm
I've archived the thread a few minutes prior to the last run of posts and kept the images for future Photoshop opportunities.
*edit*
wanted to archive... did not go through in time before deletion.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 2, 17 4:20 pm
I wish I was actually building stuff instead of drawing it. Maybe I need to do a physical project. Or build a house.
archanonymous
Oct 2, 17 4:45 pm
Build a model! Mock-up a detail!
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 2, 17 5:04 pm
I really want to build a house. I might be having delusions. Demo my house. Live in an RV. Build a new house.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 2, 17 8:02 pm
I want to build where I currently live. The house is a scraper on a valuable lot, so feasible. But where to live while building? Rent elsewhere while building I guess.
randomised
Oct 3, 17 2:32 am
Yes, build something. There's nothing like the smell of freshly cut timber, have been building and fixing furniture myself. Very rewarding
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 3, 17 9:45 am
I've been refinishing the dining room table. Rewarding indeed.
Donna Sink
Oct 2, 17 10:03 pm
Continuing work on some endless "drawings for friends" and listening to Tom Petty songs. We have a couple of his albums on frequent rotation in our house but not everything by far - man he had SO many good songs! High school. Fast Times. Mall videos.
JeromeS
Oct 5, 17 8:43 pm
Always liked Zombie Zoo, for some reason.
randomised
Oct 3, 17 4:01 am
Going on holiday tomorrow! Almost two weeks lazing around, eating pierogi, kiełbasę and sipping wódka, can't wait...
randomised
Oct 3, 17 5:55 am
No not going to Greenpoint
Donna Sink
Oct 3, 17 8:39 am
LOL
Le Courvoisier
Oct 5, 17 6:10 pm
The first of five points of architecture is to never provide curtains for your windows yo.
threadkilla
Oct 6, 17 6:16 pm
oh wow, archinect! A real dumb newsflash from academia over at the Texas A&M, titled "Texas A&M Students respond to Harvey rainfall in their 3-d sculptures" https://archinect.com/news/art...fawning all over parametric curvy sculpture being a great response to the hurricanes hits the front page 4 hours ago. Someone comments "white people amaze me" in disbelief, and I write two comments, and then the whole thing disappears into thin air! sad. Guess I should have screengrabbed the article itself, my commentary doesn't read right without that context - but I didn't think you'd destroy the 'news' item! I figured you'd censor me, though.
taking bets on how long before this post disappears...
Everyday Architect
Oct 6, 17 6:34 pm
your 5 minutes of googling, taken with the professor's statement where he was quoted as saying something along the lines of *A&M routinely places students in the top architecture firms where this type of curvy architecture is produced* really just points at the tone-deafness of the assignment and the real priority which is just to produce curvy forms for the portfolio. I basically commented as such, but as you point out the news article got zapped into nothingness.
threadkilla
Oct 6, 17 6:40 pm
I don't know how and when we're going to have these discussions on a discipline-wide level, but if pointing out the obvious on an ephemeral posting warrants such censorship here - it won't be soon enough, and it won't be pretty
archanonymous
Oct 6, 17 6:40 pm
I was aghast at that article as well but just closed my browser rather than take time to respond. Totally agree with both of you though.
Everyday Architect
Oct 6, 17 7:36 pm
The only criticism of archinect itself was threadkilla's statement that the article was poorly written. There wasn't a link to an original source article or material ... so I can only assume it was an archinect-written article. I forget who it cited as the author on the news post.
Here is the fantastic quote from the professor: "'We have historically placed our students in top architectural firms that produce these complex sensuous forms from curves, trendy architecture that includes some of the most interesting buildings in the world,' Clayton said."
citizen
Oct 6, 17 9:10 pm
There's nothing that strikes me as wrong about the studio project. The problem (as usual) starts when someone in P.R. swoops in and tries a "look how socially relevant we are" bit. Big mistake. Huge. Always.
randomised
Oct 7, 17 3:14 am
Username on point.
Donna Sink
Oct 7, 17 3:00 pm
If I read it correctly the studio project wasn't about designing a building but was about using 3D structures as data visualization. It was a first- or early-year project, right? Perhaps this was a way of teaching the students visualization software and bringing in formal intuition and critique AND giving them a sense of how extreme the weather situation is, so that later, when they actually design habitable buildings, they have a sense of empathy for how important safe structures are? I'm with citizen, I don't see a problem with this studio assignment.
Miles Jaffe
Oct 7, 17 6:05 pm
@ Archinect: When you ignore someone, the text of their posts is hidden, but if the post a topic it is not.
Requesting a fix, please.
Nam Henderson
Oct 9, 17 11:10 am
Hi TC, Denver is currently getting it's first snow... Also I spent the weekend volunteering at the US Solar Decathlon. Some neato projects!
Nam Henderson
Oct 9, 17 12:27 pm
Might take me a couple of weeks but hoping to do a write up for Archinect after it wraps up next weekend...
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 10, 17 7:49 pm
I'm drinking some boozy stuff that my brother-in-law brought back from France. It becomes cloudy when you mix it with water and tastes like anise. I didn't have any cold medicine so this was the next closest thing.
Donna Sink
Oct 10, 17 8:52 pm
I love anise-favored liquor. Don't @ me.
Non Sequitur
Oct 10, 17 9:19 pm
I've had more than one evening ruined with that stuff and I can never remember the name... not complaining thou.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 10, 17 9:32 pm
It's called Pastis but the look, taste, and smell are what defines it and thus how it is called.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 11, 17 4:58 am
Stay safe, David.
Donna Sink
Oct 10, 17 8:53 pm
I had a shitty, shitty day. Oh well, tomorrow is another, right? <sigh>
Miles Jaffe
Oct 10, 17 11:19 pm
Hopefully not another shitty one.
randomised
Oct 11, 17 3:33 am
Shitty days are the worst days. Had a Skype interview myself while on holiday which meant a finely pressed shirt over sweatpants, ha. It didn't even go that bad although I hardly could prep for it.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 11, 17 5:00 am
I've had a pretty shitty week. It started with a funeral and has barely gotten better and now I have a bad cold.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 11, 17 5:30 am
Does anyone have experience with owners/contractors not getting permits and getting busted for it? What are the implications for the architect/designer? These are small jobs and I expressed more than once that the work would need to be permitted from the beginning but of course that was considered an unimportant detail.
Miles Jaffe
Oct 11, 17 9:14 am
Sans contractual obligations just a headache.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 11, 17 10:14 am
The design services agreement was to do the work leading up to the permit. That never happened. The contractor thought he could save time by getting started before the design was done and permit given. Now they want the work to be split into phases (non-structural stuff now so he can continue and another permit later for structural stuff after we can get it together) and drawings all need to be redone per phasing and reflect what the contractor has already done. I think add'l fee is warranted as well because that is a lot of additional work and it wasn't my fuck-up. My pro practice textbook says designers can get their licenses taken away for being involved on a non-permitted job but that sounds draconian.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 11, 17 11:06 am
I already "fired" them and they "fired" me too, more than once actually (complicated, I can't give all the details obviously). I never finished the work nor collected the full fee. I wasn't planning on alerting the building dept but they still want to submit my drawings and put my name on the permit application and I don't want it on there. Thanks all. Good thing I'm a good poker player, both to call bluffs and to support myself inbetween "projects". Ha.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 11, 17 12:09 pm
That's the answer I need, thanks Chris.
Miles Jaffe
Oct 11, 17 3:16 pm
Very grey area. Licensed / unlicensed, ownership of documents defined, etc. A lot depends on the municipality.
Of course if you need a lawyer it's already too late.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 11, 17 6:08 pm
What's the point of having an agreement and a protocol when the third party contractor can come in and throw a wrench in it? Is the contractor responsible for the costs associated with his error?
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 11, 17 6:27 pm
They say they aren't going to use my name and will figure something else out. I want to believe them and not place the call. Seems pretty easy to just use someone's name on your drawings and application and they might never know.
Miles Jaffe
Oct 11, 17 6:56 pm
Subject to liability exposure (structure, code) I'd place the call and/or have an attorney advise the ex-client that they have no right to use the work and must immediately relinquish all drawings. CYA. The problem is of course that once lawyers are involved the cesspool tends to get deeper.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 12, 17 8:17 am
Thanks again everyone. I actually slept last night instead of lying awake thinking about this!
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 12, 17 8:18 am
I owe you all a beer or wine or two or three.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 13, 17 9:55 am
Chris, can't any party cancel at any time for any reason? That's how I do stuff. Getting fired for saying "no" is a blessing... refusing to provide more services when the client wants to do things illegally (for example) is a blessing. You get rid of a bad client and get the evening off, stress-free. My brother is a doctor and many of his patients smoke. We've had this conversation. All he can do is recommend they not smoke and then treat them accordingly in the fee for service model. He can't follow them around and make sure they don't smoke. The thing that doctors do that architects don't is that they make money when patients are stupid and unhealthy, they don't take on the additional expense and stress themselves which is what i see a lot of architects doing.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 13, 17 10:01 am
In my other job, I work with special ed kids and I received explicit training on how to work with kids that are troublesome. You do NOT take on other people's problems. Easy to say I know. Sometimes we don't even know we are doing it. does that work in architecture? I don't know.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 14, 17 8:56 am
What do you mean about due diligence? Are you suggesting architects are obligated to serve unserveable clients who perhaps do things that are illegal and/or don't pay?
Miles Jaffe
Oct 14, 17 10:22 am
Due diligence in client selection.
The problem is essentially that once you've done something you're on the hook for it no matter what. Professional status just makes it worse. As a designer you can define your responsibility, as an architect it's all yours. Of course in the end it's up to lawyers to sort it out and the guy with the most money usually wins by attrition.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 14, 17 2:37 pm
Need to be pickier in selecting clients? I can get behind that. Maybe it's best to have none at all. Does that work?
Miles Jaffe
Oct 11, 17 6:59 pm
ARCHINECT: The ignore feature is broken. Not only do the ignored's post of new threads appear, I am notified via email of the ignored's comments.
Pretty much defeats the purpose of the ignore option ...
randomised
Oct 12, 17 3:46 pm
Second interview next week without the sweatpants!
JLC-1
Oct 12, 17 3:58 pm
"without the sweatpants"? careful with those interviews, see what's happening in Hollywood right now?
randomised
Oct 13, 17 1:24 am
JLC, no skype call so will have to wear something presentable.
randomised
Oct 13, 17 1:33 am
David, I might be working on design research for exhibitions and publications.
randomised
Oct 14, 17 4:57 am
Should work more on my punctuation. A comma here or there wouldn't hurt anyone.
Everyday Architect
Oct 12, 17 4:13 pm
Speaking of things that are broken on Archinect ... has anyone else noticed that sometimes on the Forum page the sideways scrolling vignettes for News articles don't show accurate comment counts? For example, right now the US withdrawing from UNESCO article has one comment per the graphic on the vignette, but when you click through there are two comments.
Donna Sink
Oct 12, 17 10:21 pm
Everyday, IIRC replies don't count as comments. So if you have three comments, and each one garners five replies, it will still only show up as having 3 comments.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 13, 17 10:10 am
I wish archinect could work more like snapchat where text disappears after 24 hours. Or maybe we can have just one thread where we get to write in disappearing text. Can we get that, please?
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 13, 17 11:50 am
We could talk about some awfully nasty things - things too awful to leave on the internet for searching but if they could just fall away it would be nice - that I believe would effectively scare all the prospective students of architecture away.
tduds
Oct 13, 17 7:02 pm
If you don't want it out there forever, don't say it on the internet.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 13, 17 8:26 pm
I want to hear the stories.
tduds
Oct 13, 17 7:03 pm
Welp, I had my first job-induced panic attack last night. Ran home in a fit of rage and my girlfriend met me at the door with a glass of bourbon & let me bitch for 30 minutes.
She's a keeper.
Marc Miller
Oct 13, 17 7:32 pm
Not sure which is worse- plot line or "architecture."
Marc Miller
Oct 13, 17 8:47 pm
They got robbed.
Donna Sink
Oct 14, 17 6:04 pm
i DON;T CARE HOW BAD THE ARCHITECTURE IS, i LOVE sTORM pORN! Oops, yes, it's Saturday at 6pm and I'm CADding at the office...
Marc Miller
Oct 14, 17 7:21 pm
That caps lock accident looks like storm porn...
b3tadine[sutures]
Oct 20, 17 9:07 pm
I love disaster films.
Non Sequitur
Oct 15, 17 10:07 pm
Its 10pm on a sunday and here I sit, drinking delicious beer and listening to a live performance by Chirs Cornell all while I set up this massive code review front end package.
OK, that's very funny. I had not seen it. I like how it implies consent, moreso than the previous.
Non Sequitur
Oct 16, 17 8:37 am
I'm not a fan of visible sketchup axis.
randomised
Oct 16, 17 9:24 pm
One for the category "that's not art because my kid can do that too in 5 seconds". Can't believe someone actually spent those 5 seconds.
tduds
Oct 17, 17 3:00 pm
Niice.
randomised
Oct 20, 17 1:55 pm
So, the comments in 'How to get a job at Vinoly' have just been erased...apparently RVA doesn't like people mentioning the working conditions over there.
tduds
Oct 20, 17 2:05 pm
Wow... is providing a space for these exact comments not the point of Archinect?
Miles Jaffe
Oct 20, 17 2:31 pm
For some, self-promotion is the only point.
Miles Jaffe
Oct 20, 17 6:48 pm
Working for a builder in the late 80's I was tasked with developing a construction bid for one of his house projects. Sheer incompetence doesn't begin to describe the work. 15' double cantilevers in the space of single framing members, continuous tile floors transitioning over a mix of concrete, wood, and steel structure; a wall 30' high and only 12" thick with no lateral support; etc. Details ranged from unbuildable to designed to fail immediately.
Miles Jaffe
Oct 20, 17 8:16 pm
So a 7-1/2" piece of 1/4" foam core turns into a 30' high unsupported wall. Masterful!
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 20, 17 5:07 pm
I'm making Halloween costumes this afternoon. Feels a lot like studio... visualize, sketch, look at pics, study techniques, revise, cut some stuff up... So far so good.
curtkram
Oct 21, 17 12:19 am
i helped put together a residential/ community sort of haunted house. to be honest, i didn't design it. i was there for problem solving, fixing broken stuff, and i happen to own a fair number of tools the hostess does not own. it was wildly successful among the neighbor kids.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 21, 17 10:52 am
Fully permitted and to code I presume? You wouldn't put the neighborhood children in harm's way.
curtkram
Oct 21, 17 12:41 pm
nah. i went the harms way route. scare the parents too that way. happy halloween :)
JLC-1
Oct 24, 17 4:11 pm
is architecture a career of pompous a****les? or is it just in the beginning? makes me think of some surgeon friends I had in my 20's, god was too little for them. Just hating this comment "I also believe it is spiritual embezzlement to use anyone else's work as a crutch to creating. This includes music, art, other architecture." Pompous a****le!
JLC-1
Oct 24, 17 4:22 pm
don't say!? yes, david, somebody on the blocked creativity thread was trying to tell me otherwise, and more....
Once I discovered Hanley Wood I stopped bothering to keep up with CEUs through the year in favor of cramming them into the last 4 days before renewal. Hanley Wood is THE BEST.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 26, 17 9:05 am
I have 13 more CEU's than I need. Always an overachiever. Today works fir a stich n bitch for me.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 26, 17 11:57 am
Why are you getting CEU's from Autodesk? I'd rather get pooped on by a Canada Goose.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 26, 17 1:57 pm
13 CEU's for sale to the highest bidder! Just kiddding, I don't think that works.
Wow that was some HR boilerplate if I ever saw one. Booo-ring.
Donna Sink
Oct 30, 17 2:28 pm
I just attended a presentation of his own work by Dwayne Oyler, just a very small group of us so it was very intimate and conversational. Drove home my own very boring professional career - he's such a rock star! Ugh now I have to write a proposal for a very dull project and I kinda feel like putting a gun in my mouth LOL.
archanonymous
Oct 30, 17 8:54 pm
thats why you can't compare yourself against other people. Outwardly you seem very happy in your practice and involved and influential in your local community. Enjoy it!
Donna Sink
Oct 31, 17 9:56 am
Thanks archanonymous, and what you say is all true, too! I am very happy and fortunate and love what I do. That said, a huge part of my architectural belief is that *buildings* are what matter, or at least built things (like pavilions or benches or whatnot) having materiality. So I get super excited seeing others manifest excellent built things into the world. But when I look at my own material output...well, I mean, it's lovely that my residential clients all love what I've done for them. I know I've positively impacted people.
Donna Sink
Oct 31, 17 10:00 am
So an another - or maybe related - topic: I just heard a skeptic I respect state that they don't believe in free will. And now I'm flummoxed. So I'm trying to listen to some podcasts today and figure out how "free will" is defined. Non Sequitur and fictional\-/Christopher, do you guys (or anyone else) have any resources for me?
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 31, 17 10:20 am
Sam Harris.
Donna Sink
Oct 31, 17 10:57 am
I'm listening to someone now compare Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett. He played Sam Harris's "choose a city" example and I'm not convinced by his argument.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 31, 17 11:03 am
Me neither.
tduds
Oct 31, 17 11:49 am
+1 to Sam Harris. Also this is obscure but there's an episode of 'You Made It Weird w/ Pete Holmes featuring Bo Burnham (both comedians) that goes into determinism & free will, which is what originally turned me on to the philosophy back in 2013 or so.
Non Sequitur
Oct 31, 17 12:21 pm
Donna, thank for the name drop. 8-)
Non Sequitur
Oct 31, 17 12:29 pm
Damn... my long response was deleted. I feel sad now.
Non Sequitur
Oct 31, 17 12:34 pm
So, let's try retyping this thing again.
Everyday Architect
Oct 31, 17 2:11 pm
It is predetermined that you are not to respond to Donna, that's why it won't work.
Josh Mings
Nov 1, 17 12:31 pm
I don't know, it's tricky. I'm not a believer in the "everything goes according to God's plan"/"master creator", but without my grandpa signing up to interview with Eli Lilly since they didn't have a lot of signups at the U of I career day way back when and subsequently moving to Indianapolis instead of returning to work for GE in New York after the war, Indianapolis is where my mom met my Dad (who is from Columbus, IN), then my Mom and Dad get married and move to Columbus, and then I'm born and grow up to be an architect. Seems like an interesting path and maybe there is something to ordained fate? Who knows.
Miles Jaffe
Nov 1, 17 7:18 pm
Believing something doesn't make it true. Your "skeptic" needs to be more skeptical.
Non Sequitur
Oct 31, 17 12:47 pm
TC is broken.... two long replys to Donna's post vanished. I'll try again when I have another minute.
Also, pumpkin beers for all.
Donna Sink
Oct 31, 17 2:15 pm
I would like to exercise my still-extant free will to choose *not* to drink a pumpkin beer. A slice of pumpkin pie with bourbon, however, I will freely choose.
Actually, pro-tip: making home made whipped cream with just a touch of bourbon or whiskey whipped in is delicious.
Non Sequitur
Oct 31, 17 2:36 pm
I freely choose the pumpkin beer... even when out of season.
Marc Miller
Oct 31, 17 3:53 pm
Peak pumpkin beer was last year. Breweries are cutting down on it. But now you can get pumpkin spice potato chips!
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 1, 17 1:54 am
G-D-mit. I ask Google a question, it gives me wut I said 10 years ago back to me.
Josh Mings
Nov 1, 17 12:26 pm
So you know you're right?
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 1, 17 1:13 pm
No.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 1, 17 1:39 pm
And that's the second time I've done that.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 1, 17 1:43 pm
I need a vacation. Today.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 1, 17 6:46 pm
I first read that as SILLY, which the answer of course is YES. How hilly? I'm sure it can.
It wasn’t a direct point made, but I got the sense he was longing for a time when people looked up as they walked around versus looking for entertainment/theatre/spectacle in their phones as they walk from a to b (youth being the alleged worst offenders).
Marc Miller
Nov 8, 17 8:55 am
They do... or worse, they don’t engage because they are above it. And if you think about the difference between the agora and the pynx it’s access and control. “They” would never get caught in open spaces where discourse requires presence and accountability (the pynx). Instead they would favor the controlled environments of the agora.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 5, 17 9:53 am
Well how does your agreement read? What did you do? This place might be 90% snark, but the other 10% is pro practice!
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 8, 17 12:18 pm
I got rid of all my apple products except my giant ipad.
Donna Sink
Nov 5, 17 10:42 pm
Thor Ragnarok was very enjoyable. AND many hot men are in it. Cate Blanchett is also hot.
Josh Mings
Nov 6, 17 2:39 pm
Well, there is a fire down the block from the office. #monday
JLC-1
Nov 7, 17 10:33 am
Juicy story to evaluate who you hate more, developers or lawyers?
Rattlesnakes versus water moccasins. Always a t
ough choice.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 8, 17 12:13 pm
Plagiarism is flattering, right? So why don't I feel flattered? More like flattened. It's an I hate architecture day. Anybody got any good jokes?
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 8, 17 1:57 pm
Who? I live under a rock, I don't know about that stuff.
JLC-1
Nov 8, 17 2:14 pm
at least your last name isn't saud.
Miles Jaffe
Nov 8, 17 3:19 pm
Just assume the client was a PoS who screwed the designer who copied you.
geezertect
Nov 8, 17 4:48 pm
Isn't the profession enough of a joke?
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 8, 17 5:30 pm
A tree branch just fell and narrowly missed my head. Who designed that thing???
Miles Jaffe
Nov 8, 17 6:27 pm
It missed because it bounced off your beautiful aura.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 8, 17 11:26 pm
Thanks, Miles. But I asked for a joke.
Josh Mings
Nov 8, 17 1:19 pm
I bought a Nintendo Switch last night. The kid in me is very happy.
archiwutm8
Nov 9, 17 2:56 am
I got one on release and played it for a few weeks until I started to travel and forgot about it.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 8, 17 6:07 pm
Just saw three cars go the wrong way down a one way. Wild west.
Miles Jaffe
Nov 8, 17 6:28 pm
The end is near. I can tell because it happens every time I get a taste of success.
Schoon
Nov 11, 17 2:58 pm
Two firsts happened to me this week:
I pulled my first all-nighter. Thought I'd be able to get through school avoiding that by staying ahead, but senior year is rough.
I was offered my first full-time position, and I think I'm going to take it! Feels so great to have one less thing to worry about as school wraps up.
JLC-1
Nov 11, 17 11:58 pm
Congrats!
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 12, 17 8:59 pm
For Donna:
I figured out what I think about it... that I believe free will exists but that doesn't happen in the moment as we are conditioned to think it does. We build patterns but we choose the patterns and it is more subtle than making choices moment to moment. We choose a way... Think of the other expressions of will.... where there is a will there is a way and will power.
b3tadine[sutures]
Nov 12, 17 10:12 pm
The "cart" is the grave. Free will, with an eye on the grave, is the best path, or you'll fly too close to the sun, and find the grave.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 12, 17 10:13 pm
But your genes and chemicals change per their environment. They are not static.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 13, 17 8:38 am
You do get to influence them, so yes you do.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 13, 17 9:20 am
Dr. Sapolsky has some good thoughts on it too but again, the thing no one is thinking of is time. Free will shouldn't be defined as things that happen just in the moments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SthfBxQ0vZ0
Like the video says, both hard determinism and free will are true, argument resolved. Which works for you? Is the question now. I find free will to be my driving force, it works for me. I suppose I'm pre-detrrmined to think way based on my experiences and observations. Determinism sounds too easy.
Josh Mings
Nov 13, 17 3:33 pm
Y'all I was on a jury for midterm reviews last week and freaking loved it. I love the part of academia where you can talk about the ideas and not worry about the real world constraints.
citizen
Nov 13, 17 11:59 pm
Thanks for your service! Am just inviting guests for final reviews, and it is work finding good critics who are available on a particular day and time.
Miles Jaffe
Nov 15, 17 11:40 am
Perfect training for architecture students - ignore real world constraints. Which explains a lot of the shit produced today. Not to pick on Josh, everybody loves a good mental jam session.
citizen
Nov 15, 17 12:37 pm
Good point. Plenty of real-world constraints get raised and talked about-- they just don't bring everything to a screeching halt as they do in real projects. (In my studio, anyway.)
Josh Mings
Nov 15, 17 1:07 pm
What I meant by that is what citizen said. They get talked about, but they don't drive the discussion.
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..
It is a party, random, and you're invited.
It's a great party. just BYOB.
What a warm welcome, cheers!
Why not the Dutch? Is random?
Also, TC always felt more like the Archinect Cheers, than a "party". Unless it is a casual backyard party with friends.
Yes I am and I don't like 'em either :)
Wasn't it the sex pistols manager who said something about especially hating the Dutch?
Hating? He loved "us" double!
This is a great song! Surprisingly (at least to me), while I know who McLaren is, I have never heard this (AFAIN)...
OMG!!! Without getting into details my mother-in-law decided yesterday that she needed to buy a house... like start making offers today. She wants to buy an over priced mcmansion in a 55 and up community... total tunnel vision for the most sterile form of living imaginable... I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...how do you save people from themselves!!!! FFS!!!
Poof! Chester the butthead and his Nova Scotia hovel just got zapped into the void.
we need a strategy to make it last longer.
I did not know that Nova Scotia had such low levels of ignorance and bigotry.
For $1500 it lasts a looooong time.
Darn, I missed all the fun, why do those things always happen during dinner?
move to a better time zone.
I know [time zones]. I have the best [time zone].
I missed all of this. Disappointed, or lucky?
Disappointed. It was an astounding display of an adult's adolescent entitlement turned to rage
"It was an astounding display of an adult's adolescent entitlement turned to rage"
Some might call it Thursday
.
just as it was getting good :(
I've archived the thread a few minutes prior to the last run of posts and kept the images for future Photoshop opportunities.
*edit*
wanted to archive... did not go through in time before deletion.
I wish I was actually building stuff instead of drawing it. Maybe I need to do a physical project. Or build a house.
Build a model! Mock-up a detail!
I really want to build a house. I might be having delusions. Demo my house. Live in an RV. Build a new house.
I want to build where I currently live. The house is a scraper on a valuable lot, so feasible. But where to live while building? Rent elsewhere while building I guess.
Yes, build something. There's nothing like the smell of freshly cut timber, have been building and fixing furniture myself. Very rewarding
I've been refinishing the dining room table. Rewarding indeed.
Continuing work on some endless "drawings for friends" and listening to Tom Petty songs. We have a couple of his albums on frequent rotation in our house but not everything by far - man he had SO many good songs! High school. Fast Times. Mall videos.
Always liked Zombie Zoo, for some reason.
Going on holiday tomorrow! Almost two weeks lazing around, eating pierogi, kiełbasę and sipping wódka, can't wait...
No not going to Greenpoint
LOL
The first of five points of architecture is to never provide curtains for your windows yo.
oh wow, archinect! A real dumb newsflash from academia over at the Texas A&M, titled "Texas A&M Students respond to Harvey rainfall in their 3-d sculptures" https://archinect.com/news/art...fawning all over parametric curvy sculpture being a great response to the hurricanes hits the front page 4 hours ago. Someone comments "white people amaze me" in disbelief, and I write two comments, and then the whole thing disappears into thin air! sad.
Guess I should have screengrabbed the article itself, my commentary doesn't read right without that context - but I didn't think you'd destroy the 'news' item! I figured you'd censor me, though.
taking bets on how long before this post disappears...
your 5 minutes of googling, taken with the professor's statement where he was quoted as saying something along the lines of *A&M routinely places students in the top architecture firms where this type of curvy architecture is produced* really just points at the tone-deafness of the assignment and the real priority which is just to produce curvy forms for the portfolio. I basically commented as such, but as you point out the news article got zapped into nothingness.
I don't know how and when we're going to have these discussions on a discipline-wide level, but if pointing out the obvious on an ephemeral posting warrants such censorship here - it won't be soon enough, and it won't be pretty
I was aghast at that article as well but just closed my browser rather than take time to respond. Totally agree with both of you though.
The only criticism of archinect itself was threadkilla's statement that the article was poorly written. There wasn't a link to an original source article or material ... so I can only assume it was an archinect-written article. I forget who it cited as the author on the news post.
Edit: Nevermind ... I found the source article: http://today.tamu.edu/2017/09/...
Here is the fantastic quote from the professor: "'We have historically placed our students in top architectural firms that produce these complex sensuous forms from curves, trendy architecture that includes some of the most interesting buildings in the world,' Clayton said."
There's nothing that strikes me as wrong about the studio project. The problem (as usual) starts when someone in P.R. swoops in and tries a "look how socially relevant we are" bit. Big mistake. Huge. Always.
Username on point.
If I read it correctly the studio project wasn't about designing a building but was about using 3D structures as data visualization. It was a first- or early-year project, right? Perhaps this was a way of teaching the students visualization software and bringing in formal intuition and critique AND giving them a sense of how extreme the weather situation is, so that later, when they actually design habitable buildings, they have a sense of empathy for how important safe structures are? I'm with citizen, I don't see a problem with this studio assignment.
@ Archinect: When you ignore someone, the text of their posts is hidden, but if the post a topic it is not.
Requesting a fix, please.
Hi TC, Denver is currently getting it's first snow... Also I spent the weekend volunteering at the US Solar Decathlon. Some neato projects!
Might take me a couple of weeks but hoping to do a write up for Archinect after it wraps up next weekend...
I'm drinking some boozy stuff that my brother-in-law brought back from France. It becomes cloudy when you mix it with water and tastes like anise. I didn't have any cold medicine so this was the next closest thing.
I love anise-favored liquor. Don't @ me.
I've had more than one evening ruined with that stuff and I can never remember the name... not complaining thou.
It's called Pastis but the look, taste, and smell are what defines it and thus how it is called.
Stay safe, David.
I had a shitty, shitty day. Oh well, tomorrow is another, right? <sigh>
Hopefully not another shitty one.
Shitty days are the worst days. Had a Skype interview myself while on holiday which meant a finely pressed shirt over sweatpants, ha. It didn't even go that bad although I hardly could prep for it.
I've had a pretty shitty week. It started with a funeral and has barely gotten better and now I have a bad cold.
Does anyone have experience with owners/contractors not getting permits and getting busted for it? What are the implications for the architect/designer? These are small jobs and I expressed more than once that the work would need to be permitted from the beginning but of course that was considered an unimportant detail.
Sans contractual obligations just a headache.
The design services agreement was to do the work leading up to the permit. That never happened. The contractor thought he could save time by getting started before the design was done and permit given. Now they want the work to be split into phases (non-structural stuff now so he can continue and another permit later for structural stuff after we can get it together) and drawings all need to be redone per phasing and reflect what the contractor has already done. I think add'l fee is warranted as well because that is a lot of additional work and it wasn't my fuck-up. My pro practice textbook says designers can get their licenses taken away for being involved on a non-permitted job but that sounds draconian.
I already "fired" them and they "fired" me too, more than once actually (complicated, I can't give all the details obviously). I never finished the work nor collected the full fee. I wasn't planning on alerting the building dept but they still want to submit my drawings and put my name on the permit application and I don't want it on there. Thanks all. Good thing I'm a good poker player, both to call bluffs and to support myself inbetween "projects". Ha.
That's the answer I need, thanks Chris.
Very grey area. Licensed / unlicensed, ownership of documents defined, etc. A lot depends on the municipality. Of course if you need a lawyer it's already too late.
What's the point of having an agreement and a protocol when the third party contractor can come in and throw a wrench in it? Is the contractor responsible for the costs associated with his error?
They say they aren't going to use my name and will figure something else out. I want to believe them and not place the call. Seems pretty easy to just use someone's name on your drawings and application and they might never know.
Subject to liability exposure (structure, code) I'd place the call and/or have an attorney advise the ex-client that they have no right to use the work and must immediately relinquish all drawings. CYA. The problem is of course that once lawyers are involved the cesspool tends to get deeper.
Thanks again everyone. I actually slept last night instead of lying awake thinking about this!
I owe you all a beer or wine or two or three.
Chris, can't any party cancel at any time for any reason? That's how I do stuff. Getting fired for saying "no" is a blessing... refusing to provide more services when the client wants to do things illegally (for example) is a blessing. You get rid of a bad client and get the evening off, stress-free. My brother is a doctor and many of his patients smoke. We've had this conversation. All he can do is recommend they not smoke and then treat them accordingly in the fee for service model. He can't follow them around and make sure they don't smoke. The thing that doctors do that architects don't is that they make money when patients are stupid and unhealthy, they don't take on the additional expense and stress themselves which is what i see a lot of architects doing.
In my other job, I work with special ed kids and I received explicit training on how to work with kids that are troublesome. You do NOT take on other people's problems. Easy to say I know. Sometimes we don't even know we are doing it. does that work in architecture? I don't know.
What do you mean about due diligence? Are you suggesting architects are obligated to serve unserveable clients who perhaps do things that are illegal and/or don't pay?
Due diligence in client selection.
The problem is essentially that once you've done something you're on the hook for it no matter what. Professional status just makes it worse. As a designer you can define your responsibility, as an architect it's all yours. Of course in the end it's up to lawyers to sort it out and the guy with the most money usually wins by attrition.
Need to be pickier in selecting clients? I can get behind that. Maybe it's best to have none at all. Does that work?
ARCHINECT: The ignore feature is broken. Not only do the ignored's post of new threads appear, I am notified via email of the ignored's comments.
Pretty much defeats the purpose of the ignore option ...
Second interview next week without the sweatpants!
"without the sweatpants"? careful with those interviews, see what's happening in Hollywood right now?
JLC, no skype call so will have to wear something presentable.
David, I might be working on design research for exhibitions and publications.
Should work more on my punctuation. A comma here or there wouldn't hurt anyone.
Speaking of things that are broken on Archinect ... has anyone else noticed that sometimes on the Forum page the sideways scrolling vignettes for News articles don't show accurate comment counts? For example, right now the US withdrawing from UNESCO article has one comment per the graphic on the vignette, but when you click through there are two comments.
Everyday, IIRC replies don't count as comments. So if you have three comments, and each one garners five replies, it will still only show up as having 3 comments.
I wish archinect could work more like snapchat where text disappears after 24 hours. Or maybe we can have just one thread where we get to write in disappearing text. Can we get that, please?
We could talk about some awfully nasty things - things too awful to leave on the internet for searching but if they could just fall away it would be nice - that I believe would effectively scare all the prospective students of architecture away.
If you don't want it out there forever, don't say it on the internet.
I want to hear the stories.
Welp, I had my first job-induced panic attack last night. Ran home in a fit of rage and my girlfriend met me at the door with a glass of bourbon & let me bitch for 30 minutes.
She's a keeper.
Not sure which is worse- plot line or "architecture."
They got robbed.
i DON;T CARE HOW BAD THE ARCHITECTURE IS, i LOVE sTORM pORN! Oops, yes, it's Saturday at 6pm and I'm CADding at the office...
That caps lock accident looks like storm porn...
I love disaster films.
Its 10pm on a sunday and here I sit, drinking delicious beer and listening to a live performance by Chirs Cornell all while I set up this massive code review front end package.
Massive? Don't break the bulk plane.
"live"?
(too soon?)
Presumably you all have seen this?
via this
Good night!
OK, that's very funny. I had not seen it. I like how it implies consent, moreso than the previous.
I'm not a fan of visible sketchup axis.
One for the category "that's not art because my kid can do that too in 5 seconds". Can't believe someone actually spent those 5 seconds.
Niice.
So, the comments in 'How to get a job at Vinoly' have just been erased...apparently RVA doesn't like people mentioning the working conditions over there.
Wow... is providing a space for these exact comments not the point of Archinect?
For some, self-promotion is the only point.
Working for a builder in the late 80's I was tasked with developing a construction bid for one of his house projects. Sheer incompetence doesn't begin to describe the work. 15' double cantilevers in the space of single framing members, continuous tile floors transitioning over a mix of concrete, wood, and steel structure; a wall 30' high and only 12" thick with no lateral support; etc. Details ranged from unbuildable to designed to fail immediately.
So a 7-1/2" piece of 1/4" foam core turns into a 30' high unsupported wall. Masterful!
I'm making Halloween costumes this afternoon. Feels a lot like studio... visualize, sketch, look at pics, study techniques, revise, cut some stuff up... So far so good.
i helped put together a residential/ community sort of haunted house. to be honest, i didn't design it. i was there for problem solving, fixing broken stuff, and i happen to own a fair number of tools the hostess does not own. it was wildly successful among the neighbor kids.
Fully permitted and to code I presume? You wouldn't put the neighborhood children in harm's way.
nah. i went the harms way route. scare the parents too that way. happy halloween :)
is architecture a career of pompous a****les? or is it just in the beginning? makes me think of some surgeon friends I had in my 20's, god was too little for them. Just hating this comment "I also believe it is spiritual embezzlement to use anyone else's work as a crutch to creating. This includes music, art, other architecture." Pompous a****le!
don't say!? yes, david, somebody on the blocked creativity thread was trying to tell me otherwise, and more....
go look , he's back at it.
Someone actually said this?
Im not making it up
https://archinect.com/forum/thread/150034811/creativity-block/0#last
mother of god.
i think it's god himself
mother of dog?
Once I discovered Hanley Wood I stopped bothering to keep up with CEUs through the year in favor of cramming them into the last 4 days before renewal. Hanley Wood is THE BEST.
I have 13 more CEU's than I need. Always an overachiever. Today works fir a stich n bitch for me.
Why are you getting CEU's from Autodesk? I'd rather get pooped on by a Canada Goose.
13 CEU's for sale to the highest bidder! Just kiddding, I don't think that works.
"Don't think RVA anticipated these comments when putting this advertorial together." Discuss?
Perhaps I missed earlier in thread, if so my apologies.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
"You need permission"
looks like I had the wrong link included try this https://archinect.com/features/article/150031586/all-experience-will-have-some-form-of-relevance-how-to-get-a-job-at-rafael-vi-oly-architects
Wow that was some HR boilerplate if I ever saw one. Booo-ring.
I just attended a presentation of his own work by Dwayne Oyler, just a very small group of us so it was very intimate and conversational. Drove home my own very boring professional career - he's such a rock star! Ugh now I have to write a proposal for a very dull project and I kinda feel like putting a gun in my mouth LOL.
thats why you can't compare yourself against other people. Outwardly you seem very happy in your practice and involved and influential in your local community. Enjoy it!
Thanks archanonymous, and what you say is all true, too! I am very happy and fortunate and love what I do. That said, a huge part of my architectural belief is that *buildings* are what matter, or at least built things (like pavilions or benches or whatnot) having materiality. So I get super excited seeing others manifest excellent built things into the world. But when I look at my own material output...well, I mean, it's lovely that my residential clients all love what I've done for them. I know I've positively impacted people.
So an another - or maybe related - topic: I just heard a skeptic I respect state that they don't believe in free will. And now I'm flummoxed. So I'm trying to listen to some podcasts today and figure out how "free will" is defined. Non Sequitur and fictional\-/Christopher, do you guys (or anyone else) have any resources for me?
Sam Harris.
I'm listening to someone now compare Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett. He played Sam Harris's "choose a city" example and I'm not convinced by his argument.
Me neither.
+1 to Sam Harris. Also this is obscure but there's an episode of 'You Made It Weird w/ Pete Holmes featuring Bo Burnham (both comedians) that goes into determinism & free will, which is what originally turned me on to the philosophy back in 2013 or so.
Donna, thank for the name drop. 8-)
Damn... my long response was deleted. I feel sad now.
So, let's try retyping this thing again.
It is predetermined that you are not to respond to Donna, that's why it won't work.
I don't know, it's tricky. I'm not a believer in the "everything goes according to God's plan"/"master creator", but without my grandpa signing up to interview with Eli Lilly since they didn't have a lot of signups at the U of I career day way back when and subsequently moving to Indianapolis instead of returning to work for GE in New York after the war, Indianapolis is where my mom met my Dad (who is from Columbus, IN), then my Mom and Dad get married and move to Columbus, and then I'm born and grow up to be an architect. Seems like an interesting path and maybe there is something to ordained fate? Who knows.
Believing something doesn't make it true. Your "skeptic" needs to be more skeptical.
TC is broken.... two long replys to Donna's post vanished. I'll try again when I have another minute.
Also, pumpkin beers for all.
I would like to exercise my still-extant free will to choose *not* to drink a pumpkin beer. A slice of pumpkin pie with bourbon, however, I will freely choose.
Actually, pro-tip: making home made whipped cream with just a touch of bourbon or whiskey whipped in is delicious.
I freely choose the pumpkin beer... even when out of season.
Peak pumpkin beer was last year. Breweries are cutting down on it. But now you can get pumpkin spice potato chips!
G-D-mit. I ask Google a question, it gives me wut I said 10 years ago back to me.
So you know you're right?
No.
And that's the second time I've done that.
I need a vacation. Today.
I first read that as SILLY, which the answer of course is YES. How hilly? I'm sure it can.
Feels good, man.
sorcery!
Agora and Pnyx and the youths these days...
It wasn’t a direct point made, but I got the sense he was longing for a time when people looked up as they walked around versus looking for entertainment/theatre/spectacle in their phones as they walk from a to b (youth being the alleged worst offenders).
They do... or worse, they don’t engage because they are above it. And if you think about the difference between the agora and the pynx it’s access and control. “They” would never get caught in open spaces where discourse requires presence and accountability (the pynx). Instead they would favor the controlled environments of the agora.
Well how does your agreement read? What did you do? This place might be 90% snark, but the other 10% is pro practice!
I got rid of all my apple products except my giant ipad.
Thor Ragnarok was very enjoyable. AND many hot men are in it. Cate Blanchett is also hot.
Well, there is a fire down the block from the office. #monday
Juicy story to evaluate who you hate more, developers or lawyers?
http://www.aspendailynews.com/...
Rattlesnakes versus water moccasins. Always a t ough choice.
Plagiarism is flattering, right? So why don't I feel flattered? More like flattened. It's an I hate architecture day. Anybody got any good jokes?
Who? I live under a rock, I don't know about that stuff.
at least your last name isn't saud.
Just assume the client was a PoS who screwed the designer who copied you.
Isn't the profession enough of a joke?
A tree branch just fell and narrowly missed my head. Who designed that thing???
It missed because it bounced off your beautiful aura.
Thanks, Miles. But I asked for a joke.
I bought a Nintendo Switch last night. The kid in me is very happy.
I got one on release and played it for a few weeks until I started to travel and forgot about it.
Just saw three cars go the wrong way down a one way. Wild west.
The end is near. I can tell because it happens every time I get a taste of success.
Two firsts happened to me this week:
I pulled my first all-nighter. Thought I'd be able to get through school avoiding that by staying ahead, but senior year is rough.
I was offered my first full-time position, and I think I'm going to take it! Feels so great to have one less thing to worry about as school wraps up.
Congrats!
For Donna:
I figured out what I think about it... that I believe free will exists but that doesn't happen in the moment as we are conditioned to think it does. We build patterns but we choose the patterns and it is more subtle than making choices moment to moment. We choose a way... Think of the other expressions of will.... where there is a will there is a way and will power.
The "cart" is the grave. Free will, with an eye on the grave, is the best path, or you'll fly too close to the sun, and find the grave.
But your genes and chemicals change per their environment. They are not static.
You do get to influence them, so yes you do.
Dr. Sapolsky has some good thoughts on it too but again, the thing no one is thinking of is time. Free will shouldn't be defined as things that happen just in the moments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SthfBxQ0vZ0
Sapolsky and Harris debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VBb23k2QQ
(sorry, more of a discussion than a debate)
More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Nj_rEqkyQ I tell my students that they have Response-Ability.
Like the video says, both hard determinism and free will are true, argument resolved. Which works for you? Is the question now. I find free will to be my driving force, it works for me. I suppose I'm pre-detrrmined to think way based on my experiences and observations. Determinism sounds too easy.
Y'all I was on a jury for midterm reviews last week and freaking loved it. I love the part of academia where you can talk about the ideas and not worry about the real world constraints.
Thanks for your service! Am just inviting guests for final reviews, and it is work finding good critics who are available on a particular day and time.
Perfect training for architecture students - ignore real world constraints. Which explains a lot of the shit produced today. Not to pick on Josh, everybody loves a good mental jam session.
Good point. Plenty of real-world constraints get raised and talked about-- they just don't bring everything to a screeching halt as they do in real projects. (In my studio, anyway.)
What I meant by that is what citizen said. They get talked about, but they don't drive the discussion.