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?
I'm gonna throw something in here... that there are branches of my gouvernements public servants (not policy people... just random wankers with enough seniority to make demands) who are presently running crusades to have "designated shooter" safe spaces in federal gov offices. These are otherwise functioning adults but we keep wasting our time explaining to them (to their outrage) that the building code does not change based on the USA's inane gun loving orgies and its obvious casualties.
We're better than this as design professionals and no, we're not going to start placing poor public servants in windowless boxes with doors that cannot be opened from the outside. We even had to explain to them is a graphic way why multi stall bathrooms (specifically the women) should not have a auto-lock safety function preventing outside access.
I've probably said too much now.
SneakyPete
Aug 7, 19 12:48 pm
Keep talking, Non. It's important.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 1:16 pm
Jla, moving away from gun obsession is not the total answer, but it is a large part of it. IMO, anyone who owns weapons outside of hunting (which are locked un unloaded 99% of the time) is a nut.
tduds
Aug 7, 19 1:31 pm
I suppose they'd murder fewer people since I know of no other weapon capable of mowing down double digits of humans in single digits of minutes. The goal isn't to totally eradicate murder, it's to keep more people alive. Removing the gun from the equation keeps more people alive. Plain & simple.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 1:35 pm
Cool story, but that's not significant enough to justify the obsession (and illusion of safety). My point still stands.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 1:50 pm
So start with the easy one and call gun ownership nuts what they really are: nuts. Then once it's established, like in all other modern places, that this is backwards as fuck crazy, then you can also address the rest of your nonsense. Simple, see? (/S) Until then, if you support gun ownership, you're part of the problem regardless of how many anecdotal examples you state.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 2:08 pm
I disagree. Owning a firearm, as I stated above, is nuts. You're actively supporting gun violence by your position.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 2:15 pm
it would... if a roundhouse kick could level a classroom in 3seconds. Until then, please stop digging that hole.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 2:54 pm
I have not. You're conflating gun obsession with reason.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 3:09 pm
I would rather not have a gun in my home. The odds that someone will enter my home with a gun is infinitesimally small compared to the ever present danger of the "just in case" gun.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 3:09 pm
incorrect again. how's the hole now?
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 3:39 pm
And you're not understanding that access to, and the dumb idea that one needs to own firearms, are the root of the issue. If you can't wrap your head around that one then all you're good for is digging holes.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 3:58 pm
I have no issues with reminding people that gun ownership is nuts and nothing more than a illusion. I treat it like any other invisible friend nonsense like religion. We're better off without the illusion regardless of what your archaic ingrained feelings are.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 4:23 pm
I don't live in a violent society. Perhaps that's because guns, and it's idiotic must-own dogma is not a thing here. Regardless, promoting ownership for (the illusion of) safety only adds more weapons and more variables in society. This only leads to more "accidents" which then leads to more guns due to fear of such "accidents". It's a dumb way to live it and it would get much more ridicule if it was not so fucking sad. I guess we can only rely on thoughts and prayers for the foreseeable future... speaking of illusions.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 5:02 pm
It's not, but guns as heavily restricted and no-one is allowed to cary them on their person. We also have strict laws about purchase, transport, and storing. Gun violence here is directly related to the easily obtainable american weapons that are brought over the border. Not ideal, but no-one can just go out and purchase semi-auto toys or pistols on a whim. Just not a thing and articles like the wiki entry ignores that many of those weapons are hunting (or to fend off polar bears)... very very few are handguns and none are of the AR-whatever type.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 5:04 pm
also, no source on the 10million of undocumented weapons for Canada... so that's not really a reliable article. What is this, high school research time?
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 8:37 pm
JLA, there is literally no rational for owning any of those types. They simply should not be made available for sale.
Saw that this morning and am not surprised. Dumb people will do dumb things. Dumb people with access to guns will do dumb things with said guns. Can't stop people from being dumb and apparently everyone is ok with easy access to weapons. Its your mess M'urica and all your hands are dirty by association to the 2A obsession nonsense. Thoughts and prayers to all affected. /s
tduds
Aug 9, 19 11:33 am
The "killers gonna kill" argument ignores the very obvious fact that instruments of death have a wide range of deadliness and assault rifles have no purpose other than to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. It's a bullshit argument and at this point everybody ought to know better.
Idiots and maniacs will always exist, but like I said at the top of this dumb thread - I know of no other weapon capable of mowing down double digits of humans in single digits of minutes. The goal isn't to totally eradicate murder, it's to keep more people alive. Removing the gun from the equation keeps more people alive. Plain & simple.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 11:43 am
Yep, and the weapons remain a problem too. Try to keep up Jla.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 12:00 pm
reducing availability will make it less likely that someone gets such stupid guns in the first place. The root is access to and the inane cavalier attitude people have to an utterly useless
and dangerous "god given right". Stop painting it as something else because you need a murderous toy to feel safe.
"A murderous nut bag isn’t going to stop because of a specific type of gun being less available."
JFC can you read? I *specifically* said stopping murder is not the goal, harm reduction is the goal. Removing a tool of expedient murder will make murder less expedient and keep more people alive. If someone goes on a murderous rampage and kills 2-3 people instead of FUCKING FIFTY, I'd consider that a victory. You're missing the damn point, with such repetition that I have to assume it's on purpose.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 12:34 pm
"They seek to mitigate and reduce damage rather than address the root of the problem."
Why not both? There's nothing about addressing a crisis of mental illness that precludes also addressing a culture of fetishized violence.
The problems are multivariable and the solutions are multifaceted, and we are currently addressing zero of them while using the multi-variability as a wedge to avoid addressing any given one.
Furthermore, using the impossibility of perfection to stop any attempt at reduction is a bad faith argument.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 2:10 pm
Useless possession for the average joe. It is absolutely useless to own the "assault" type ones and it is ridiculous to argue that one has to right to own them.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 2:13 pm
One should stanch the bleeding before addressing the injury.
For the umpteenth time, no one is suggesting that we should ban semi-automatics and then do nothing else ever. It's step one, and using the existence of later steps to avoid doing step one is a very, very reductive and counterproductive line of thinking.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 2:46 pm
step 2 is get rid of even more guns. step 3 is education, step 4 is return to steps 1 and 2.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 2:52 pm
In policy terms I'm not sure, but as a goal Step 2 should be to address the crisis of radicalization of young American men towards misogynist and extreme-right violence.
I think a lot of it is borne out of a crisis of masculinity that our culture is experiencing, where the ideas of what it means to be a man in our society are suddenly thrown into turmoil and doubt. At the same time, not enough is done to create a safe place for boys to explore that new territory and define identities for themselves. Much in the same way that the political void created by a toppling of authoritarianism was filled not by democracy but by Al Qaeda and ISIS, the cultural void created by the toppling of traditional masculine / feminine roles is filled by extremists and opportunists who provide simple (but wrong) answers to people with complicated (but well-intended) questions.
I don't know how to solve the problem, but I think that's the problem. But before we can tackle the long arduous process of de-radicalizing young American men, we need to quickly stop more of them from killing us.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 2:56 pm
How to create a culture that fosters vulnerability and emotional confidence in the next generation of boys is something that I think about a lot now that I'm approaching probable fatherhood.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 2:58 pm
Correct Jla, no guns is a good end result. Those who want to hunt can have their weapons locked in a secure storage facility and need to make the proper travel arrangements when said weapon is out in the public realm. They should also need to maintain annual cont-ed (at their cost) in order to maintain their license (oops... I mean bullshit 2A right). Side note, I added the air-quotes to assault because I know it's a trendy media buzz word.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 3:02 pm
I don't want to ban guns but I do want to make it much more difficult to purchase and keep guns. I say this as a gun user and soon to be owner.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 3:10 pm
I want it to be nearly impossible to own one and with mandatory annual training and inspections. If you want your silly murderous toys, then take your responsibilities seriously.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 3:12 pm
tduds, you should get a single shot barrel loading musket.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 4:13 pm
My grandfather has a barrel loading musket. I'd love to inherit it.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 4:58 pm
Don't really care for the copy-paste wall of text JLA. I still stand by my point. No reason for the gun obsession and security paranoia. We get it, you've submitted yourself to that nonsense and can't think your way out of it. It's a shitty lowest common denominator type position too, but whatever, you just keep pushing that self-defense nonsense. The solution to guns is more guns... sure it is. What a idiotic position to take.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 5:19 pm
aaand with that I'm out.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 5:27 pm
But, are you really?
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 6:16 pm
It’s dumb because easy access to guns is the reason you’re in this mess so your defense solution is akin to saying: we fucked up, so now let’s get more guns out there to protect ourselves from our past mistakes. The criminal angle is weak and does not add any value to your horrible position.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 6:39 pm
"Can you explain why it’s a dumb concern that many many people will be unable to defend themselves from criminals who don’t care about following gun laws?"
Because it's a scenario that occurs with such extreme rarity that it doesn't even begin to justify all the innocent lives taken by the very same guns.
There are good reasons to own firearms, a vigilante fantasy is not one of them.
(Ok I guess I lied about being out)
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 6:45 pm
To Tduds point, I am far more worried about the random joe with a gun than a criminal with a gun. There are far more of the former too.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 6:52 pm
Every bad guy with a gun thinks they are a good guy with a gun.
Brian Henry
Aug 9, 19 6:52 pm
sorry, wrong thread
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 7:08 pm
You still don’t get it Jla. You really are part of the problem. Congratulations at holding back social progress.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 7:11 pm
You’re hopeless. It’s very alarming that someone so detached from reason owns a firearm. Very happy that there is a good political border between me and folks like you.
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 9, 19 7:15 pm
Guns aren't on the back to school supply lists yet. Should they be? Kids need to be able to protect themselves somehow.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 7:18 pm
Are there Disney and paw patrol graphics on them?
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 7:39 pm
See my previous comment regarding your hopelessness. I guess this subject is too difficult for you. You’re one “queen will come and take our land” comment away from going full Balkins here.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 7:59 pm
I don’t think you’re very good at this. None of these change my initial position. You’re still a fool and probably should not own weapons.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 9:54 pm
I am exactly making that statement.
More precisely, I' saying that small incremental steps does fuck-all to calm the gun obsession fires. Go full nuclear on this or keep pilling on more guns.
Non Sequitur
Aug 9, 19 10:19 pm
Those people are fools
SneakyPete
Aug 7, 19 2:16 pm
Derail, Dissemble, distract, disguise.
Dishonest and disgusting.
tduds
Aug 9, 19 12:35 pm
By this logic you should never take Ibuprofin.
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 7, 19 6:35 pm
Can post-tensioned also be a mood? An emoji? Thanks in advance for responding.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 7:04 pm
tduds
Aug 7, 19 8:12 pm
I'm frequently pre-stressed.
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 7, 19 8:26 pm
A pre-sressed emoji is a great idea too!
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 19 8:38 pm
I guess I can't use the emoticon keyboard from my phone here... I tried to use a closed umbrella emoticon... I felt it was appropriate.
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 7, 19 8:58 pm
Ha, yes. I just thought you were showing the ultimate expressionless expression which works somehow too.
b3tadine[sutures]
Aug 7, 19 10:51 pm
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 7, 19 11:55 pm
#Postmodernpostension
Non Sequitur
Aug 13, 19 9:38 am
Page 2? unacceptable.
I guess we should not all take our vacations at the same time next year.
I'm edging on writing a balkin'esque long rant about designers submitting permit and CDs docs without knowing the basics of construction and reality... Currently debating if I should save the project or let it turn into a larger dumpster fire. Probably best I stay quiet.
Bench
Aug 13, 19 9:50 am
Client coming to you after realizing they hired a faker ?
Non Sequitur
Aug 13, 19 9:54 am
Not this time... this is all internal hence my reluctance to expand.
Everyday Architect
Aug 13, 19 2:56 pm
You all get a vacation? That's one part that sucks about changing employers ... all the vacation time you've accrued can't transfer with you. Yeah, the payout made my last paycheck nice, but I have to spend the time earning the vacation hours at the new job before I get to use them.
archanonymous
Aug 13, 19 3:04 pm
NS you could be describing my current project. We all know it is a dumpster fire, but still helpful to have our QA/QC person point it out. And I doubt one person can save it at this point, I doubt we can be...
Non Sequitur
Aug 13, 19 7:51 pm
Oye, not looking like I’m in the clear. We may be inheriting a 30-million project as you describe in Bench.
Bench
Aug 15, 19 8:44 am
We recently inherited a project right in our niche market typology because one of our main competitors couldn't complete it. Looking through the Revit model for the first time .... holy crap. Always good to know that you're better than the guy you compete with.
Non Sequitur
Aug 15, 19 9:37 am
Bench, I've seen that happen on some of our inherited models too. On one particular project, the office felt it a good idea to give it to a new hire (who had swooned over ownership with software skills). That person took the model as is and attempted to work with it instead of fixing it. I had to pull away from other projects for nearly a month to get that model back into working order. This was after permit docs were completed so we were passed the abandon and start over phase. That staff left shortly after and most of the CA work had to be done in CAD.
Bench
Aug 15, 19 9:49 am
Cant remember the last time I used cad ....sounds awful. We started a new model from scratch on day 1, definitely the way to go.
Non Sequitur
Aug 15, 19 10:44 am
After the project in my example, I only do new models. Juniors in the office don't get it, yet, which is very frustrating. We're 50/50 CAD/BIM due to interior jobs, smaller projects, and aging senior staff (without quality & reliable support). eugh.
tduds
Aug 13, 19 2:31 pm
Planning a wedding really saps my "dickin around on the internet" time"
Non Sequitur
Aug 13, 19 2:44 pm
I keep checking my mailbox... still no invite.
tduds
Aug 13, 19 2:50 pm
I must have forgotten to add
Canadian postage.
Everyday Architect
Aug 13, 19 2:58 pm
dickin around or not, you had some solid contributions on the "trial by fire" thread.
Non Sequitur
Aug 13, 19 7:52 pm
Tduds, I’ll check my neighbors igloo maybe they received it instead.
Miles Jaffe
Aug 13, 19 8:09 pm
Planning “a” wedding or planning your wedding?
tduds
Aug 15, 19 12:21 pm
I'd never plan a wedding that wasn't my own. I don't know why anybody would.
Donna Sink
Aug 14, 19 10:19 pm
I've already worked over 30 hours this week. This pace is unsustainable. I mean, I don't *want* the inverted yield curve to mean a recession, but I'd like to work a normal week for a change?
<sigh>
Upbeat news is that I have a group of about a dozen women architects all going to see the Indy premier of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? tomorrow night! At the theater that serves wine!!!!!
Non Sequitur
Aug 15, 19 7:20 am
10hr days start to get rough very quick especially if a big chunk of that time is spent on the phone and managing site fuck-ups. Our office is working at full capacity at this time and we’re turning away large (and small, no judgment
here, #allprojectsmatter)projects because there is not enough senior staff available to oversee them.
tduds
Aug 15, 19 12:22 pm
I understand the motivation to get while the gettin's good, but I really wish the industry would calm down every so often.
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 15, 19 9:09 am
I lost one of my contract jobs this week. Not because of a pending recession but a result of mismanagement and I'm the easy one to cut.
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 15, 19 9:33 am
Gonna miss fixing those 2 13/16 over 12 roof pitches and columns in front of doors. :(
Miles Jaffe
Aug 15, 19 11:57 am
Sounds like you lucked out.
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 15, 19 1:35 pm
I may have misunderstood. Not getting oofed. I guess that's good.
shellarchitect
Aug 16, 19 1:02 pm
my office is strangely slow at the moment, very weird feeling. Anyone else slow?
SneakyPete
Aug 16, 19 1:14 pm
Extremely. And this is after layoffs.
axonapoplectic
Aug 16, 19 2:07 pm
definitely not slow. Been working 50-60 hour weeks the past few weeks because we are having a hard time finding support staff.
axonapoplectic
Aug 16, 19 2:08 pm
I have heard that other offices in our market are a little slow - but we definitely aren’t.
thatsthat
Aug 16, 19 3:36 pm
My team has a ton of work. Other teams in my office are in a lag as their projects either haven't started or are wrapping up.
Donna Sink
Aug 16, 19 3:38 pm
Extremely busy, but still nervous about a potential slowdown because I've heard other firms are a bit slow.
archanonymous
Aug 16, 19 4:25 pm
Bring on the recession! Maybe the firm I'm at can finally hire some help for us. Or even better, maybe i'll get laid off...
archiwutm8
Aug 20, 19 10:36 am
I'm busy and I refuse to do overtime cause I can't be fucked.
Non Sequitur
Aug 20, 19 10:47 am
Very busy with many deadlines stacked ontop of each other. I've been given some staff to help but it feels like it's taking longer piece the projects apart than if I did them all myself.
midlander
Aug 21, 19 11:05 am
@sneakypete what's your market? i was very slow since april, got some stuff to do now. commercial work in east asia.
atelier nobody
Aug 21, 19 3:18 pm
Generally slow, but coming in waves, so there'll be a week of having to stretch to find enough billable hours, followed by a week or two of insanity. On the other hand, they seem to be planning some hiring in the near future, so apparently there are projects in the pipeline.
nabrU
Aug 16, 19 7:50 pm
I took some photos of RCR's Tossols Basil Athletics Ground in the Garrotxa, Catatonia, Spain.
I highly recommend a visit to this part of the world if you can, I'm privileged to have been there, go and walk the landscape and appreciate the built environment.
When your job starts making you angry and an absolute impatient asshole is it time to change jobs?
b3tadine[sutures]
Aug 21, 19 8:10 am
Just did. Now that I'm a short timer, I'm being an unapologetic fuck to all the general contractors, but for all the right reasons.
mightyaa
Aug 21, 19 11:05 am
Some of us older architects used to call that phase "tempering of an architect". Basically, like a piece of steel, you get pounded over and over until you get hard. The idealistic spirit of your youth has been purged out as a impurity in your metal.... Welcome aboard! Now get off my lawn!
midlander
Aug 21, 19 11:10 am
sometimes, depends whether it's the work or the people. with good people it's worth trying to make it work.
Miles Jaffe
Aug 21, 19 11:37 am
Tempering is a delicate process. Too hard and the steel becomes brittle and breaks easily; too soft and it loses it's ability to hold an edge.
Everyday Architect
Aug 21, 19 11:57 am
Not an older architect, nor a metalworker (and I don't really care to "Rich Balkin-ize" the information via wikipedia), but isn't what mightyaa describes forging rather than tempering? Forging is a hammering process, tempering is a heating and cooling process, no?
Miles Jaffe
Aug 21, 19 12:45 pm
Getting hammered is part of the process.
Everyday Architect
Aug 21, 19 12:52 pm
^ better than what mightaa used originally "you get pounded over and over until you get hard."
threeohdoor
Aug 21, 19 1:18 pm
Forging creates the tool, tempering is your boss throwing you (the tool) into the deep end of the quenching oil...you either harden right quick or you crack and explode.
shellarchitect
Aug 21, 19 1:19 pm
retirement party a couple weeks ago... boss gave a nice talk about the retiring guy named roy and a former principal named Dick. "Dick would come up behind him and start hammering. He'd follow him around all the time. Roy always took it with a smile."
Apparently I'm the only one in the office with a dirty mind.
atelier nobody
Aug 21, 19 3:24 pm
We prefer to be called "Curmudgeon-Americans."
If I had known then what I know now, I would've just stayed where I was 20 years ago, but YMMV of course.
nabrU
Aug 21, 19 8:52 pm
Probably. It's like being an art gallery sponsored by the Sacklers.
mightyaa
Aug 21, 19 12:06 pm
@EA .. Probably... I liked the word since it sounds like "temperment" which tends to transform once you realise how many stupid people are out there, and how often you are asked to do stupid things that will never work and waste your time. And interns all look like:
Everyday Architect
Aug 21, 19 12:09 pm
Maybe "work hardening" is a better term for this?
archiwutm8
Aug 21, 19 1:30 pm
Never thought I'd see anime ever on this forum, the times sure have changed.
joseffischer
Oct 14, 19 11:57 am
Heh, where do you guys get your interns. I'm like... we have these 5-7 options (yes, I can't even nail down the number of options) 2 of which are from the principal and the others from the client that will never work. We need option 1, 2, and 5 fully polished up for review, and sketch out the others, flagging why they don't work for internal review. We've scheduled another meeting on Friday for the sole purpose of choosing one option to move forward. Interns respond "when you get back friday you'll have 5 new bad ideas from the client. How about we work on only option 1 and 2 and you do the rest of the busy work. We don't know how to sketch and don't have time to do 7 revit options."
OddArchitect
Oct 14, 19 1:49 pm
Sounds like your interns are correct. Maybe try listening to them.
Everyday Architect
Aug 21, 19 7:54 pm
It was a slow day today, and I started searching wikipedia for metalworking terms a la Balkins. I was going to post something here, but decided to make it into a blog post instead. I'll follow up with a link in the next couple of days when I have a chance to compose something more than just some random thoughts.
Does anyone else we should stop building towers and homes of concrete, glass and steel? It's going to become a huge issue in the future when it comes to heatwaves, the materials aren't suitable to live in.
Thoughts?
Non Sequitur
Aug 22, 19 6:09 am
I like Windows.
Donna Sink
Aug 22, 19 9:05 am
I do think THE issue of being able to inhabit buildings in the future is going to be keeping them cool, not warm. Heating is going to become much less of a concern but cooling will be enormously important. Unfortunately, cooling inside air currently requires adding heat to outside air, so it's truly a vicious cycle: the more we cool ourselves, the more we *have to cool ourselves. My goal is for every building to be designed on the Umbrella House typology....which will also look cool. Shade structures everywhere!
Donna Sink
Aug 22, 19 9:06 am
Oh and more to your point, archiwutm8: mass timber is the only thing we should be building with.
Non Sequitur
Aug 22, 19 9:30 am
Donna, are there large-scale lumber farms set-out to anticipate such a conversion from concrete/steel construction to timber? Don't really see the advantage, yet.
midlander
Aug 22, 19 9:33 am
sleep outside then? these things seem to work fine in dubai though.
archiwutm8
Aug 22, 19 11:23 am
Midlander - it's not just the inside but the materials we use affects the whole urban space, especially where the city haven't been designed to cope with rising temperatures levels. Places like Dubai temperature levels are rising year by year as well, however their cities use master planning techniques to cool down.
mightyaa
Aug 22, 19 2:47 pm
My take is concrete, steel, etc. = survivability. Wood is the worst when it comes to surviving mother nature’s wraith. Think of it this way; if you were tasked with designing a building that will still be standing in a hundred years with minimal maintenance, is wood really your goto? Also… just look back to historic architecture before air-conditioning; how did they keep buildings comfortable inside? (thermal mass, creating airflow, water, placement on site, regional architecture to address local climates and material availability, etc.)
Donna Sink
Aug 22, 19 3:55 pm
mightyaa, when you include having a safe, habitable planet for over 100 years within your maintenance costs, yes, wood is extremely viable. Didn't a big report just come out saying concrete *production* is terrible for the environment? IMO concrete for foundations is fine, but buildings made entirely of concrete aren't environmentally responsible. One could theoretically pour a very robust concrete foundation and slab then build on it with wood - without using plastic, please - and in 100 years tear all that wood down, compost it, and build a new structure on the old footings with newly-grown tree lumber.
Non Sequitur
Aug 22, 19 7:47 pm
Hard to see that work on a commercial or higher density housing project.
geezertect
Aug 22, 19 8:31 pm
Fifty story buildings constructed of wood? Are you serious? A habitable planet in 100 years is an abstraction when your apartment or office building is on fire or rocking back and forth in an earthquake. And we wonder why architects aren't taken very seriously.
midlander
Aug 22, 19 9:07 pm
there isn't a generalized solution in building construction systems alone. i'm very wary of mass timber. like insulation, it's useful but has big risks. the grenfall tower or mgm grand killed hundreds due to smoke and flame spread without structural collapse. mass timber would only increase the risks of inappropriate finish materials. it was mass timber that failed at notre dame too...
archiwutm8
Aug 23, 19 10:34 am
Donna - concrete is one of the biggest if not the biggest pollutants in the world right now.
Miles Jaffe
Aug 23, 19 11:45 am
get your facts correct. fossil fuels represent 87% of CO2 emissions. concrete production represents about 5%, half of which is fossil fuel consumption. new tech allows trapping CO2 in concrete, ideally sourced from industrial waste recovery.
midlander
Aug 23, 19 11:56 am
i'm making a new thread for this. too hard to keep replying in small text blocks.
curtkram
Aug 24, 19 7:33 pm
we must learn from the firemen
curtkram
Aug 25, 19 1:45 pm
that was supposed to say fremen
Wood Guy
Aug 26, 19 11:15 am
Production of Portland cement is responsible for 8.0 to 8.9% of all global warming emissions, according to the most recent, reliable sources, and use is increasing each year. Fly ash (or other pozzolan admixes) can replace up to 40-50% of standard mixes, with no loss in strength, but some effects on working characteristics. There are CO2 capturing technologies such as CarbonCure and other ways to reduce the detrimental effects of concrete, but an easy approach is to minimize its use when possible. Using renewable resources, responsibly, makes more sense than using carbon-polluting materials, when we are rapidly running out of time to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
archiwutm8
Aug 27, 19 10:53 am
Miles - concrete produces 4-8% of the world's C
, I'd consider that a lot.
archiwutm8
Aug 27, 19 10:54 am
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SneakyPete
Aug 22, 19 7:24 pm
The trolling at this forum is getting to be the only discussion that's happening.
Non Sequitur
Aug 22, 19 7:46 pm
Sorry, I’ve got too many dumpster fires at the office at the moment that need attention.
OddArchitect
Oct 15, 19 2:51 pm
Is your entire office just made up of dumpsters? I ask because those things seem to get set on fire a lot in your office.
liberty bell
Aug 27, 19 10:30 am
seriously ready to try a project for which architect, contractor, and client are all women. I just finished a two hour punchlist walk-through a.k.a. dick-swinging contest.
Miles Jaffe
Aug 27, 19 11:30 am
I'm guessing you were not impressed.
SneakyPete
Aug 27, 19 12:11 pm
I've enjoyed / not-enjoyed telling owner's reps to please shut up and let me do the job they hired me for on punch walks...
atelier nobody
Aug 27, 19 2:31 pm
Hell, I'm a dude, and would love to work with more female clients and contractors. I really hate the dick-swinging, even when I win.
Donna Sink
Aug 27, 19 11:11 am
If I felt like starting a thread on advice for the young architect right now entry number 1 would be: if you're in the US, learn Spanish.
Miles Jaffe
Aug 27, 19 11:31 am
Get ready for a jlax tirade.
Everyday Architect
Aug 27, 19 11:38 am
Counterpoint ... I speak Spanish and have never found the need to use it on a project site, YMMV
Steeplechase
Aug 27, 19 11:49 am
I’ve encountered more people who only speak Mandarin than those who only speak Spanish. The Spanish speakers also seem to come without cultural protocols that will obscure communication.
Non Sequitur
Aug 27, 19 11:54 am
I'm good with my 2 official languages. Don't need a 3rd.
3tk
Aug 27, 19 12:11 pm
I know just enough to give small comments and it seems to give me a little bit more respectability with the crews. It's usually the same phrases that they can speak in english, but I guess I'm showing effort to communicate with them?
Everyday Architect
Aug 27, 19 12:13 pm
jla-x, are you certain that I don't work in the SW?
atelier nobody
Aug 27, 19 2:27 pm
I agree, I wish I spoke Spanish fluently, but I've been able to get bye without it because most crews have a bilingual supervisor I can communicate with.
Like Steeple, I've had more trouble with Asian languages, where often even the supervisors barely speak any English.
tduds
Aug 27, 19 2:41 pm
I worked with a lot of Chinese contractors in an old job on the east coast (We did a lot of restaurant work, with a lot of asian restauranteur clients). I speak extremely basic Mandarin - which turned out to be useless as most American Chinatowns started as Cantonese diasporas. It was here I first learned the usefulness of being able to draw a detail on the fly on a a piece of plywood.
Everyday Architect
Aug 27, 19 2:55 pm
I love finding random details drawn on pieces of scrap / plywood / gyp board / sheathing / whatever is close by on job sites. I usually try to snap a photo of them when I see them. We should have a thread dedicated to these.
Donna Sink
Aug 28, 19 10:01 pm
I support this idea, Everyday! I love those sketches too.
Everyday Architect
Aug 27, 19 11:42 am
Saw some contractor's pickup truck this morning with a cardboard box in the back marked "Marshmallows, Product of USA." I have so many questions...
Archlandia
Aug 27, 19 12:19 pm
My guess is it's hiding the beer cooler
Everyday Architect
Aug 27, 19 3:02 pm
Seemed pretty haphazardly thrown in the back for the beer cooler. In my head I started imagining the contractor giving the workers a version of the Stanford marshmallow experiment to see if they can follow directions. Of course that then led to me wondering if I can incorporate this into the specifications somehow to ensure the contractor reads the project manual (like Van Halen's no brown M&Ms request) ... "a bowl of white mini marshmallows shall be provided at every OAC meeting."
Archlandia
Aug 27, 19 4:00 pm
may not contain outer most layer of marshmallow or marshmallow "crust"
Everyday Architect
Aug 27, 19 4:09 pm
"Sealant Backing Material: Nonstaining; compatible with joint substrates, sealants, primers, and other joint fillers; and approved for applications indicated by sealant manufacturer based on field experience and laboratory testing. Marshmallows are not acceptable sealant backing materials."
Everyday Architect
Aug 27, 19 4:13 pm
"Silencers for Metal Door Frames: BHMA A156.16, Grade 1; neoprene or rubber; minimum diameter 1/2 inch (13 mm); fabricated for drilled-in application to frame. Marshmallows are not acceptable."
Archlandia
Aug 27, 19 4:27 pm
What about the marshmallow SIP?
Archlandia
Aug 27, 19 4:27 pm
mallow SIP
Everyday Architect
Aug 27, 19 4:52 pm
What's the effective R-value/in. of mallow?
Archlandia
Aug 27, 19 5:39 pm
For the SIP or for the human being?
Everyday Architect
Aug 27, 19 5:52 pm
Are you going to start stacking up human beings for insulation!?
Archlandia
Aug 27, 19 6:18 pm
Goodness no, that’s a thermal break.
Non Sequitur
Aug 28, 19 2:32 pm
I'm having too much fun going through past CA phases in search of caulk pics. Oh, and we're swamped with deadlines too... Everyone needs a hobby I guess.
OK I clicked through to the article and now my work day is shot to hell. Thanks a lot, Sneaky :-)
Non Sequitur
Aug 29, 19 1:07 pm
There better be some sweet caulk pics in that link...
Donna Sink
Aug 29, 19 1:15 pm
I'm an architect, come on. I definitely always notice caulk everywhere I go.
Non Sequitur
Aug 29, 19 1:17 pm
Join the party then... pics required.
Bench
Aug 30, 19 8:41 am
I hate it when a GC texts pics of his caulk, very unwanted.
Non Sequitur
Aug 30, 19 7:51 pm
I ask my GC for un healthy amounts of caulk pics.
tduds
Aug 30, 19 6:49 pm
Last day of work until October!
Feels good, y'all.
Non Sequitur
Aug 30, 19 7:50 pm
Happy wedding things!
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 30, 19 8:36 pm
It's my 15 year anniversary this weekend. Gulp.
curtkram
Aug 31, 19 9:04 am
congrats tduds and tintt :)
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 2, 19 9:57 pm
Architects may not have a direct responsibility, but we share in the guilt by association. One exit out of this space, almost certainly caused the death of 33 people. That, and our collective puritanical, prudish tendencies. This is fucking sad.
citizen
Sep 2, 19 10:15 pm
I'd like to see a section, which might or might not include a hatch to the deck above. Then info on alarm devices and any locks that may or may not have been engaged. Don't know if that's puritanical or not, but it might shed some light.
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 3, 19 6:12 am
By puritanical - and I'll allow for a shitty plan - I mean that access to the showers appears to not be directly connected to the sleeping quarters? It seems uniquely stupid to have that many people - sleeping - below the "exit" and only have one means by which you egress?
SneakyPete
Sep 3, 19 11:51 am
Sad? Yes. But I refuse to share any "guilt by association.
"
"Naval architecture, or naval engineering, along with automotive engineering and aerospace engineering, is an engineering discipline branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the engineering design process, shipbuilding, maintenance, and operation of marine vessels and structures."
Please explain how I share any responsibility, direct or otherwise, when I am not an engineer. The most I share with the people who designed this boat is my humanity.
citizen
Sep 4, 19 12:05 pm
Know when you're being trolled.
SneakyPete
Sep 4, 19 12:23 pm
I've not really found b3tadine[sutures] to be a troll. Passionate, sure. Antagonistic? Argumentative? Sometimes. But not a troll.
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 4, 19 12:32 pm
How can I troll, when I honestly believe that despite this being a boat, it does involve something that is our core competency; egress. Sure, we aren't technically responsible, but why shouldn't we have a say in the basic life safety principles? This isn't even that far outside our purview, architects have been involved in some capacity in boat designs forever. This, this is low hanging fruit, and we, if we had any real pull, should push for consultancy around boats and habitation.
citizen
Sep 4, 19 12:40 pm
^^ Thank you for that: well-stated, relevant, and most importantly, nuanced. Much better than "we share in the guilt...".
It's so easy to pop-off with a quick rejoinder (he said, as an expert), but the clarifying addendum is always better and more helpful.
SneakyPete
Sep 4, 19 12:47 pm
I've always found the complexity and importance of codes undercut by the capitalism connected. Following code is ultimately useless if the person following the code doesn't understand the reasons for doing so, especially when it's complicated and the client is leaning on them to make things happen that cause the professional to look for exceptions or vague language to get it to work. Often times the "why" is found in the commentary, which costs more money and, as such, generally doesn't get purchased.
archi_dude
Sep 9, 19 9:23 pm
Yes because only in capitalism are codes undercut. Chernobyl was definitely western sabotage. State operated entities are perfect
!
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 9, 19 10:14 pm
Chernobyl, was arrogance coupled with incompetence.
SneakyPete
Sep 10, 19 12:41 pm
archi_dude, things aren't binary just because you want them to be.
JLC-1
Sep 10, 19 3:20 pm
I can't say for sure what it is, maybe something out of our childhood, but some architects want to get involved in everything everywhere; that's not how it works, naval architecture and engineering is a separate discipline, as is automotive design, airplane design, motorcycles and bicycles. Do you imagine an architect reviewing the stair details on a cruise ship? Checking clearances on a airplane bathroom? The life and safety mechanisms put in place in boats, planes and cars are an industry standard and work well most of the time, and just like with architecture and public buildings, a tragedy of these proportions may be what they need to review those, but I'm 100% sure they won't be looking at 14 or 16 tomes of codes related to building a permanent structure for human occupancy. We do have a tendency to believe we know more than anyone on a multitude of "space related" issues.
Everyday Architect
Sep 9, 19 9:03 pm
Anyone else following Donna’s twitter feud with Michael Riscica?
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 9, 19 9:47 pm
That clown is barking up the wrong tree. He's had issues, and it appears he still does. The exact same reasons that Donna is slamming his ass for. He's everything wrong with Jersey. Everything.
Everyday Architect
Sep 9, 19 10:07 pm
Jersey? I thought he was from Portland, OR
Miles Jaffe
Sep 10, 19 1:02 pm
Feuding on Twitter? That's even more pointless than feuding on Archinect.
Donna Sink
Sep 10, 19 1:46 pm
Everyday, I'm hoping it goes quiet now. I just can't stand by while people say shitty untrue things about my friends.
Everyday Architect
Sep 10, 19 1:53 pm
TBQH, I was surprised he responded to you at all. Looking at his tweets it is just endless self promotion of his podcast and his conference. I figured he has them automated at this point because they aren’t even timely.
Everyday Architect
Sep 10, 19 2:05 pm
Also, I'm glad you called him out on his tirade against certain ARE prep providers and the AIA and NCARB. This is feeling a lot like his complaint with AIA Portland. He wanted to get something from the AIA and NCARB that they weren't going to give him and he's decided to make an issue of it. He'll say it's not personal, but it definitely looks like he's taken it personally.
liberty bell
Sep 11, 19 8:08 am
OMGoodness the stories I’m hearing from online folk right now. Whatever happened to the SMIA list, I wonder?
Non Sequitur
Sep 11, 19 8:23 am
Am I missing on some juicy action?
Donna Sink
Sep 11, 19 8:49 am
Not juicy, just petty. Mostly.
OddArchitect
Sep 11, 19 9:46 am
Almost makes me want to get on twitter.
Everyday Architect
Sep 11, 19 10:54 am
From what I’ve seen in the Facebook group he moderates, you get one chance to piss him off. Once he’s made up his mind about something there is no changing it.
If you push back at all, you’ll get kicked out. He seems ever more likely to burn bridges and scorch the earth than he is to resolve conflict in some type of professional way.
Donna Sink
Sep 11, 19 11:31 am
Everyday, that sounds like a lot of Starchitect genius heroes we all know and love, yes? LOL
Everyday Architect
Sep 11, 19 12:07 pm
Most starchitect genius heroes aren't getting into petty arguments about whether the AIA will promote their ARE test prep business. Don't get me wrong, I think the work Michael does to support and encourage young architects, and those aspiring to become one, is incredible and I hope he continues doing it. Maybe he has a little more tempering to go through (shameless self-promotion). I think he turns off a fair number of people just from his approach to conflict, and that bothers me. It probably shouldn't, but it does.
Donna Sink
Sep 11, 19 1:08 pm
I totally agree with you that the work he does to support young architects is amazing! He seems to work really hard at it and I think he's helped lots of people. But he's burning a lot of bridges, too, and the attitude of unwillingness to compromise on one's own goals is a common perception of the ego-driven reputation that most people have of architects.
OddArchitect
Sep 12, 19 11:40 am
May I ask what has he done to burn bridges? I don't follow the guy and didn't find anything online about his 'behavior'. I'm not doubting you, just can't find anything. To be fair I didn't look very hard. I have an MOB to crank out . . .
Everyday Architect
Sep 16, 19 12:57 pm
Sorry I didn't see your question earlier Chad. I think a good example was the Portland AIA thing a few years ago. Rather than just working it out, he decided to leave the chapter ... pay dues to somewhere else ... and start a master list of organizations who he feels are supporting young architects and emerging professionals.
This thing with Donna has started out down a similar path. He's already blocked her on twitter and posted a diatribe about it on his ARE study group on Facebook.
There is also a tendency I've seen in his social media posts sometimes where he expects someone to disagree with him ... he'll post a comment like -- look someone will get offended by this -- in an attempt to disarm anyone that might disagree with him. More signalling that you are either with him or offended by him and not worth engaging in a discussion.
Anyway, that's my $0.02 ... I'm sure others see this differently.
OddArchitect
Sep 16, 19 5:44 pm
Thanks for the info. I know nothing about the guy and don't know anyone who dose so this is all new to me.
Everyday Architect
Sep 17, 19 6:12 pm
He has a bit of a cult following among the aspiring and newly minted architect crowd. I had heard of him through his terrible website, but didn't really give him much thought until I met him at a conference a number of years ago. He was fun to hang out with for a day or two. I like most of what he's doing even if I don't like the way he does it all the time.
I will say that I don't think I've heard of one complaint from anyone that has been through his ARE Boot Camp program (which is just one of the many things he does). Plenty of people complain about the cost of it (who aren't in the program), but it seems like if you can afford it and are able to get into it, the value is there.
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 9, 19 10:13 pm
nah, from the east, I thought jersey, but perhaps long island...
Archlandia
Sep 10, 19 12:55 pm
He used to live here? maybe still does?
Archlandia
Sep 10, 19 12:55 pm
Portland that is
Everyday Architect
Sep 10, 19 1:59 pm
I think he left PDX shortly after his kerfuffle with AIA Portland a few years ago. I think he's been living in his van as he travels the country on some type of speaking tour to AIA chapters. I'm not sure if he has a permanent address to call home at this point.
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 11, 19 9:10 am
Wow. It seems in line with someone on the edge of sanity.
rachelfelicita
Sep 10, 19 2:13 pm
Hi there!
New here! I believe this is the right thread to introduce myself? Nice to meet y'all!
Non Sequitur
Sep 10, 19 2:32 pm
hi!
SneakyPete
Sep 10, 19 2:40 pm
Howdy.
rachelfelicita
Sep 10, 19 2:53 pm
hello hello!
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 11, 19 12:59 pm
Why does it seem that he wants it both ways?
Miles Jaffe
Sep 11, 19 1:48 pm
All this blather, I had to look him up.
I'm looking for work product, I want to see if this guy has any chops. His website is empty, not a single photo of a building - no plans, models, renderings, testimonials, etc. - in fact, no images at all. Google image search returns a bunch of selfies of some weaselly little bald-headed guy.
Not sure how you can call yourself an architect if you don't do architecture.
Check the blog ... oh, he's selling architecture courses. Perfect. Those who can't do, teach.
Donna Sink
Sep 11, 19 2:42 pm
Miles, I have to mention that it's unfair to use the term "weasely little bald-headed guy". No comments on personal appearance, please. I feel like we're trying to move past that as a society, aren't we? That's why Michelle Wolf's joke that Sarah Huckabee Sanders "burns facts and uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye" was so brilliant - it didn't disparage her looks, and it even complimented her makeup skills!
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 12, 19 6:17 am
How about "weasely"?
Miles Jaffe
Sep 12, 19 8:50 am
He's clearly not a large, long-haired weasel.
liberty bell
Sep 12, 19 10:06 am
Miles.
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 12, 19 10:20 am
A long haired weasel would be an improvement.
Donna Sink
Sep 12, 19 10:47 am
There's supposed to be a laughing face emoji after that "Miles" up there, Miles. It didn't come through on the phone.
Miles Jaffe
Sep 16, 19 12:38 pm
watch the libertarians flock to the Sanders article like moths to a flame
will galloway
Sep 21, 19 3:24 am
unless he paid for the fire crew. This is a thing now in the states isnt it? NPR did a piece on it not that long ago. Insurance companies pay something like 30K a day to put out fires around a house, but only if you have the right insurance. They watch your house burn down if not. That is about as libertarian as it gets....anyway, America is a funny funny place, where everyone has a funny, funny face. All the streets are paved with gold. And no one ever grows old... why is this strange song running in my head and where did it come from?
archstude
Sep 16, 19 10:23 pm
Is someone up for answering a few questions if they're an architect? I have a school project on this, and I'd really, really appreciate it if any of y'all could help me out.
If you're short on time, you can answer these without too much detail. I can add on more.
How long have you been working in your profession?
Where do you live?
What do you like to do outside of work?
What is your job title?
When and why did you choose your career path?
What is the name of your company or employer?
Describe your primary duties and skills.
Describe your physical work environment.
What is your favorite part of your job?
What is your salary? (You don't need this if you're uncomfortable with it)
Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your degree?
Describe in detail three of the courses that you took that are closely related to your current career. (if you want, you dont need to go too in depth. i can make it up)
Describe the two courses that you considered most challenging.
What resources did your school have available to help you get through the most difficult courses? [Cite your sources]
Regarding the two most challenging courses, how did you persevere?
From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees?
What was the title or titles of the degree(s)?
What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to receive those licenses?
How would your clients and coworkers describe you?
What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career?
Why should a high school student consider a career in your field? What important contributions could they make?
Non Sequitur
Sep 16, 19 11:05 pm
How long have you been working in your profession?
Where do you live?
What do you like to do outside of work?
What is your job title?
When and why did you choose your career path?
What is the name of your company or employer?
Describe your primary duties and skills.
Describe your physical work environment.
What is your favorite part of your job?
What is your salary? (You don't need this if you're uncomfortable with it)
Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your degree?
Describe in detail three of the courses that you took that are closely related to your current career. (if you want, you dont need to go too in depth. i can make it up)
Describe the two courses that you considered most challenging.
What resources did your school have available to help you get through the most difficult courses? [Cite your sources]
Regarding the two most challenging courses, how did you persevere?
From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees?
What was the title or titles of the degree(s)?
What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to receive those licenses?
How would your clients and coworkers describe you?
What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career?
Why should a high school student consider a career in your field? What important contributions could they make?
Non Sequitur
Sep 16, 19 11:15 pm
My response to the highschool kiddo was cut off under the reply time limit... here it is. Good thing I copied it.
How long have you been working in your profession? Long enough
Where do you live? Canada,
What do you like to do outside of work? Hobbies
What is your job title? Architect and Chief Coffee Consumption
When and why did you choose your career path? Sounded like a fun thing to do at the time
What is the name of your company or employer? No
Describe your primary duties and skills. Design shit that is also build-able and economically feasible for my clients.
Describe your physical work environment. Computer, mouse, chair, plenty of pens, coffee mug, bottle of single malt
What is your favorite part of your job? Answering dumb surveys from lazy high school wankers.
What is your salary? (You don't need this if you're uncomfortable with it) less than a million
Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your degree? Bachelor of architectural studies with minor in art history
Describe in detail three of the courses that you took that are closely related to your current career. (if you want, you dont need to go too in depth. i can make it up) No
Describe the two courses that you considered most challenging. Civil and Painting
What resources did your school have available to help you get through the most difficult courses? [Cite your sources] Library, faculty, peers
Regarding the two most challenging courses, how did you persevere? Excellent
From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees? The best one in my country
What was the title or titles of the degree(s)? Master of the Universe
What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to receive those licenses? OAA, completed ExAC
How would your clients and coworkers describe you? Interesting, diligentent, maniacal, drunk, supernatural, godly
What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career? Die
Why should a high school student consider a career in your field? What important contributions could they make? Pick up the phone and talk to someone. You won't get anywhere with this lazy crowd-sourcing jive.
archstude
Sep 17, 19 12:02 am
I kind of have gotten somewhere. All I need to do is embellish your responses a bit more and I've still got a valid interview. Thanks!
Donna Sink
Sep 17, 19 9:27 am
Seriously, a phone call would be easier than answering all of this via text. Also, one could look at an archinect profile and get answers to a lot of these. I'm happy to help, but a list of 21 questions is actually kind of daunting.
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 17, 19 9:33 am
Honestly, I can't think of anything to make what I do sound more boring, than to answer a list of questions.
Non Sequitur
Sep 17, 19 9:48 am
bonus note, my contractor stood me up at a scheduled deficiency review this morning. He's not going to like my site report (the local custodian gave up unsupervised access). I like doing CA, that's not boring. What's boring is delegating work knowing that it's unlikely it'll get done to an acceptable level of care... and that I'll redo everything eventually.
archstude
Sep 17, 19 10:19 am
Sequiter, could you describe why civil arch was hard at least? I'm still going to keep everything else, but I'd still appreciate it if you could help out this lazy high school wanker
Non Sequitur
Sep 17, 19 10:50 am
A'stude, Civil as in Civil engineering. At my uni, it was the course most students retook... some taking it thrice. Failing a 3rd time could easily lead to expulsion from the program. It was a 6hr per week course, with monday morning 8:30am start time and I got a solid A (85-90%). Civil is the generic term for all that is basic material structure and physics calculations. (moment, deflection, rotation, etc). Basically high-school physics on steroids and you have to keep in mind that we have 40+ hours of studio work to do in addition to this.
archstude
Sep 17, 19 12:57 pm
Thanks, and would you mind me just pulling courses from Uni of Calgary's arch program for some of the questions? (I'm assuming that's where you went) thanks again!
Non Sequitur
Sep 17, 19 1:05 pm
I did not go to calgary and whatever courses were available back when I was in school are unlikely to be the same now anyways. Best to look into the accreditation boards to see what constitutes architecture curricula in your area.
OddArchitect
Sep 17, 19 1:49 pm
Here are my 'answers'
1.
How long have you been working in your profession? About 15 years
2.
Where do you live?
Colorado
3.
What do you like to do outside of work? Hike, climb, paddle,
mountain bike
4.
What is your job title? Project Architect
5.
When and why did you choose your career path? I discovered my interested in architecture
through a high school drafting class.
6.
What is the name of your company or employer? Not going to say.
7.
Describe your primary duties and skills. The short answer,
I design buildings then make sure they are built per the drawings.
8.
Describe your physical work environment. A typical open office cubical, but with nice
picture on the walls.
9.
What is your favorite part of your job? Conceptual design.
10.
What is your salary? (You don't need this if you're
uncomfortable with it) Not going to
answer publicly
11.
Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your
degree? North Dakota State University, Bachelor’s of Architecture
12.
Describe in detail three of the courses that you took that are
closely related to your current career. (if you want, you dont need to go too
in depth. i can make it up) Don’t make
this up. Ask actual universities what their
programs contain. Each program is different.
13.
Describe the two courses that you considered most
challenging. Structural Engineering and Professional Writing.
14.
What resources did your school have available to help you get
through the most difficult courses? [Cite your sources] Your professors and other students.
15.
Regarding the two most challenging courses, how did you
persevere? I worked really damn hard.
16.
From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees? North
Dakota State University
17.
What was the title or titles of the degree(s)? Bachelor’s of Architecture.
18.
What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to
receive those licenses? I am a licensed architect. I was required to complete an internship via
NCARB then took seven separate exams.
19.
How would your clients and coworkers describe you? Humorous, dedicated, creative.
20.
What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career?
That my buildings overall make the built environment a better place for people
to inhabit.
21.
Why should a high school student consider a career in your
field? What important contributions could they make? That’s up to you as a student to figure
out. Talk in person with an
architect. Maybe job shadow
someone.
axonapoplectic
Sep 17, 19 6:08 pm
I just put something on my calendar for 2022.
We live in the future.
Everyday Architect
Sep 19, 19 2:20 pm
Serious questions...
Can Archinect add a warning when you want to post a comment/reply to a thread that is over a year old alerting you, "the last comment in this thread is over a year old and maybe your comments aren't necessary," with an option to forego posting or to continue. Maybe a captcha for users with less than 5 comments to weed out the necroposts from spam bots.
Would this have any effect on the random necroposting.
Note this wouldn't stop someone who really has a reason to necropost from posting. It would just make it harder / more deliberate.
Non Sequitur
Sep 19, 19 2:55 pm
necroposting is one of the only way to organically dig up classics discussions tho.
Archlandia
Sep 19, 19 4:03 pm
I don't think so. The people who seem to be doing this are doing it on purpose or they are very new to the forum. The coffee one got kicked back up from someone named Kenneth31? First post/comment ever on Archinect forum
Everyday Architect
Sep 19, 19 4:27 pm
Yeah, I know. It's a tough balancing act because I do enjoy the classics getting dug up. But for every coffee necropost, there are like 50 that are completely useless where the OP was looking for some type of help 5 years ago, and the necropost is well, not really necessary. This literally happened about ten minutes after I posted my questions above. If Ben is still looking at saving costs on his hillside lot, it would have been better to build anything 5 years ago just from a simple cost escalation standpoint.
Non Sequitur
Sep 19, 19 4:32 pm
I saw that one and almost wrote an identical response.
Archlandia
Sep 19, 19 4:44 pm
Seems like a timestamp from the last post written should live right next to the title, in the same bold font. This way people might see how old it is, maybe?
Steeplechase
Sep 19, 19 6:06 pm
Another, more modern, forum I also use doesn’t allow new members (les than something like 100 posts) to post links without moderator approval. That has really helped their problem with spam bot posts which seem to be the vast majority of necroposts.
Miles Jaffe
Sep 19, 19 6:12 pm
ARCHINECT - are you listening?
Everyday Architect
Sep 19, 19 6:24 pm
Interestingly enough, archinect moderator approval is required to make your first thread, but not for your first comment. So while we don't get a bunch of spam threads, we do get a lot of spam necroposts. Some mornings I will flag 4 or 5 hoping the moderators get to them before someone else makes a comment in the thread keeping it on the first page. Maybe the solution is to just have the moderators approve first threads and comments.
Donna Sink
Sep 19, 19 7:20 pm
Archinect mod approval is required for your first thread? I had no idea. Really?
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 19, 19 7:26 pm
Yep
Non Sequitur
Sep 19, 19 7:32 pm
maybe we should form a union
Archlandia
Sep 19, 19 7:41 pm
Revolucion! I don't go on the auto forums any longer, but all of those required approval for pretty much any first-time action.
Everyday Architect
Sep 19, 19 7:49 pm
Donna, I found it out when I switched from Everyday Intern to Everyday Architect. Ironically, I had already posted to my archinect blog under the new name, but your first thread gets moderated. I made a comment about it here on Aug 1.
Everyday Architect
Sep 27, 19 11:59 am
I went on a spam flagging spree this morning. Assuming someone at Archinect is paid to review every comment I flagged before it get's removed ... wouldn't it be quicker, easier, and more effective at stopping spam to simply pay someone to review each first time comment before it goes live? If not, can I get some store credit to Archinect Outpost for flagging the spam? Maybe promote this as an incentive for others to start flagging the spam too?
Donna Sink
Sep 20, 19 9:39 am
Embarrassments of being an Old: I had to do a cabinet detail change in Revit. It took me, no lie, over an hour and multiple questions to the Youth who is managing the BIM. In CAD I could have made the change in 10-15 minutes. I'm embarrassed, in two ways:
1. I feel like the Youth looks at me and sees a doddering old know-nothing and
2. When I was the Youth in this scenario, I definitely looked at the Olds and thought to myself "doddering old know-nothings"!!
Non Sequitur
Sep 20, 19 9:56 am
X4 time when you don't know anything is not terrible.
citizen
Sep 20, 19 8:18 pm
I sympathize, Donna. On the flip slide, the Youth probably knows nothing about cabinets, casework, and construction. (Nor did you at that stage.)
Cue The Circle of Life...
curtkram
Sep 21, 19 9:59 am
just keep learning. i think the youths and the olds respect each other more when they see you're at least willing to try.
Wilma Buttfit
Sep 22, 19 9:34 am
I met an older architect last week who still draws everything by hand. Sounds good to me. I can't keep up with everything and software too lately.
axonapoplectic
Sep 20, 19 2:01 pm
Architecture today is primarily about carving humanity out of a sea of parking.
SneakyPete
Sep 23, 19 11:55 am
Underrated comment.
Non Sequitur
Sep 23, 19 12:01 pm
...and replacing said parking with more parking... just slightly to the right.
in Archinect news, sandwiched in between articles about NYC seeking a floating swimming pool and 10 superlux bathrooms is an article about the massive avian die-off
maybe i can get a commission to design a bird cemetery or even better a museum of extinct birds? WTF are the priorities here?
axonapoplectic
Sep 20, 19 9:29 pm
I propose the museum of extinct birds to be a massive glass tower so people can witness it first hand.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 21, 19 12:54 am
dude.
Donna Sink
Sep 21, 19 2:40 pm
axonapoplectic, that's an excellent comment.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 21, 19 1:04 am
the priorities, well being an architect is an oxymoron. if you participate in architecture you are destroying the environment with every move. how much embodied energy in that bamboo flooring (but it's cheap) LEED paperwork is at least 2 trees, bruh.
intro to Cradle to Cradle, the German (not the guy who wrote the book, some fancy American) says some shit like, hey we felt stupid just standing around holding hands in front of some corporate facility, what could we change? nothing. He's German, he's rational.
So good job kids, taking a day off of work and just being morons yelling shit. No one cares, really. Put your grievances on the internet and we'll go back to developing some badass petroleum products and running adds, like - holy shit, Shell likes solar panels?
so read the rest of the book (Cradle to Cralde) that is recylced, like cradle to cradle, burh.
The Secret:
Take your dumb social media thinking and spin it towards money. Make money people want to "like" and all that other moronic internet behavior. Make people who have the funds feel guilt, fund the natural, and somehow feel like it's old school Catholicism...buy your way into heavin. Get these people with money to donate to your cause on guilt, pre mardi-gras guilt, get these people who have made their profit off of our environment to loose all their funds to YOU! you, we, none of us owe people anything who don't care about the rest of us?!??!
fuck them, peeps.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 21, 19 1:14 am
being tiefs is good! (that's thief in an Irish accent, remember the Irish have always been on the right side of history). TIEFS.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 21, 19 1:29 am
I give myself up, you old schoolers know who I am... I love you!
Who is the editor here? they are genius (see the headlines here...)
tanks
- Happy
Wilma Buttfit
Sep 21, 19 10:36 am
Happy birthday!
Happy Anarchy
Sep 22, 19 8:35 am
thank you! Google had candles on the letters today...for muah?
and the editors at Archinect are doing a great job.
Wilma Buttfit
Sep 22, 19 9:35 am
What are the editors doing a good job with?
Happy Anarchy
Sep 22, 19 10:18 pm
they pay attention.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 21, 19 2:01 am
professional opinion:
just downed a glug of Jameson without me wife watching...is that a good character? a secretly drunker than though and smart than thou Peter Eisenman Derrida Expert?
(short version , Derrida thought Eisenman was trying too hard).
thoughts?
curtkram
Sep 21, 19 10:02 am
eisenman sucked at being an architect and derrida was not an architect.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 22, 19 8:37 am
that was a Jeffrey Kipnis Separatix reference and a Chora L works reference. it takes at least three (3) shots of Jameson to understand that.
I'm thinking character could be that old drunk guy in the bar rattling off architecture theory, getting under your skin like it was a political/religious conversation?
curtkram
Sep 22, 19 10:25 am
i would never drink irish whiskey. tschumi is cool.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 22, 19 9:59 pm
swiss whiskey? are you crazy? does such a thing exist? ...hold hold on scene from Just Shoot me! (Tschumi!)
Happy Anarchy
Sep 22, 19 10:17 pm
'merican futball as per Bernard
curtkram
Sep 22, 19 10:26 pm
whiskey comes from kentucky. Whisky comes from scotland.
Those are not included as acceptable alternates in the spec and can be safely replaced with real whiskey. Props to Japanese though. Some of their attempts at whiskey are
acceptable substitutes.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 22, 19 10:34 pm
acceptable...i had to get my back right tooth capped drinking too much Japanese Whiskey. Japanese do everything better because they want to.
curt, the irish don't make whiskey? (thank you beta)
curtkram
Sep 22, 19 10:41 pm
they try happy. Bless their hearts.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 22, 19 10:44 pm
bless their hearts....that's insult. dude how different are the scots form the irish? whiskey is a process and the Japanese did it better than everyone...I mean I love Macallen, but I'll drink Irish Whiskey! then what is Jameson?
Stephen the Irishman was cool, but he couldn't make whiskey for shit. Good on him for defending scotch whisky though.
Happy Anarchy
Sep 22, 19 11:24 pm
you got me bruh....
SneakyPete
Sep 24, 19 12:44 pm
It speaks volumes about the value of that "architectural" folly that they're choosing it as the backdrop in front of which to interview this perpetual stain on the world's y-fronts.
Marc Miller
Sep 25, 19 4:49 pm
I usually use bread, cake, and pancakes as my examples, but why not cookies?
b3tadine[sutures]
Sep 25, 19 5:26 pm
yes!
archiwutm8
Sep 27, 19 10:13 am
I think I might take a career break, it's been pretty difficult lately and I just don't feel mentally well enough to do this nonsense anymore. The partner has asked me to quit and do something I enjoy cause she knows how it's draining the life out of me.
Has anyone taken a career break?
midlander
Sep 27, 19 10:48 am
every day in a sense. do it, you need it. nothing good comes out of fighting yourself.
mightyaa
Sep 27, 19 12:08 pm
Nope. Could never afford to. It is a fantasy though... Just walk away and flip cars.
Wilma Buttfit
Sep 27, 19 12:35 pm
Yes. I left and had another career for 7 years then came back to architecture. It was like a nice long nap.
Miles Jaffe
Sep 27, 19 1:27 pm
Several times. Once as an apprentice to a Japanese master builder, 3 years that changed the way I look at everything. I,
Miles Jaffe
Sep 27, 19 1:34 pm
I’m on a break now, 3 years since the last project.
archi_dude
Sep 27, 19 3:22 pm
This sounds like a good independent post. How long. How old were you How did you do it (financially) and what was it like coming back to the h
archi_dude
Sep 27, 19 3:26 pm
The work force. No trust funders invited for commenting though. They tend to have a very know it all Zheng attitude that lacks any grounding in real world experience.
archanonymous
Sep 27, 19 4:25 pm
I took an involuntary break when I graduated in 09 and did actual work building actual things with my own two hands. It was so incredibly invigorating. I miss it.
Miles Jaffe
Sep 27, 19 5:14 pm
I was in my 30’s, it was a paid apprenticeship, barely enough to survive on. Architecture was always feast or famine for me, usually famine. I’ve done a lot of different things. Currently making art, which is also feast or famine. LOL
curtkram
Sep 27, 19 7:25 pm
I took a few sick days this week. A lot of it ended up being working from home, but I got a couple naps in and got to spend time with the dogs.
JLC-1
Oct 1, 19 6:33 pm
Not precisely a "career" break since I never looked at my life as some kind of competition to get ahead (that's a career, right?) but I did my first 10 years as an architect building stuff, classrooms, laboratories, offices , etc for my university, the next 10 years were a mixed bag of "urban design" and " community planning" for 2 large firms, and the last 10 years I've been designing and building houses away from cities and suburbs.
liberty bell
Oct 1, 19 1:29 pm
I’m waiting for my car to be fixed and the waiting room is showing daytime TV. Whenever I see this shit I feel like I understand why this country (the US) is so conflicted and combative. Every show and commercial is blatant fear-mongering: your car might get stolen! Your house might get broken into! A semi may mow down your loved ones on the highway! Your heart is about to blow out! Asbestos!
It might benefit us all if legal marijuana moves much more quickly.
Wood Guy
Oct 1, 19 3:30 pm
I know what you mean. It's been at least ten years since I've had network TV, and I haven't even had a television for the last six years. (We do stream content on a laptop--we're not totally weird...) When I'm somewhere that has a TV blaring non-stop I can't believe other people put up with it.
Cannabis is legal in my state but it doesn't seem to help the situation, unfortunately. (Aside from making it more fun to just stay home.)
archanonymous
Oct 1, 19 4:01 pm
I've been reading Seneca's "Letters from a Stoic" it has a good deal to say about this topic.
b3tadine[sutures]
Oct 1, 19 5:13 pm
I miss Days Of Our Lives, and Another World.
midlander
Oct 1, 19 5:32 pm
every time i visit my parents i've got to beg them to shut the damn tv off or i'm off to stay in a hotel. why such nice people tolerate the constant projection of misery and fear into their daily life is incomprehensible to me. some people just need noise despite going to extraordinary lengths to live where there isn't any.
Non Sequitur
Oct 1, 19 6:59 pm
My folk’s tv just plays house reno or signing competition shows on repeat... but then again, we’re not subject to the same media Donna references. My tv serves as a vehicle for hockey and Disney movies.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 2, 19 9:13 am
I haven't watched TV in 10 years. Best 10 years of my life.
Miles Jaffe
Oct 2, 19 9:21 am
There is a universal remote called TV B Gone that turns off all tvs. Great for visits to places where tvs are on all the time. Also fun watching staff try to figure out the problem.
OddArchitect
Oct 1, 19 6:17 pm
Whew. Slowing down at the office yet we're advertising for an experienced PA and interior designer. We just hired two interns as well. Sure hope we get that project. . . .
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 9:17 am
we're speeding up... and can't fill seats with people who can keep this ship afloat.
Bench
Oct 2, 19 10:00 am
Honest question - is the office looking to increase compensation to get those people needed in seats? (Not directly looking, just always curious to observe the market back home ...)
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 10:05 am
Bench, the quick answer is no... The real answer is, I've got no fucking clue but I'm hoping some of this will be cleared up soon. The (commercial) market here is strange. There is far too much activity and zero workforce (both consultant and labour)... but we're not seeing any influx of applications outside of the typical no experience student variety. We "poached" a middle-age arch (with PA experience, apparently) some time ago and I almost lost it trying to coordinate and red-line their work recently. eugh.
OddArchitect
Oct 2, 19 10:24 am
Yeah but you work in Canada so you're all a little wonky, at least according to the Rick Moranis movie.
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 10:30 am
Chad, yeah, things are different here (for the better) and compensation levels just don't compare well to the US.
OddArchitect
Oct 2, 19 12:52 pm
Being from northern Minnesota I'm basically a Canadian cousin. I can relate.
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 12:58 pm
^I'd invite you to (october) thanksgiving... just leave your imperial system at the border.
OddArchitect
Oct 2, 19 1:18 pm
I'll try my best. No promises though.
OddArchitect
Oct 2, 19 10:25 am
Here you go
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 10:27 am
Brewery fo'sure. There is like one new craft brewery in my city everyweek.
Bench
Oct 2, 19 10:40 am
Canadian craft beers > American craft beers
Thats great you can make 8 different IPA's, but they all taste like straight saw dust. Meanwhile Canadian breweries are actually experimenting with way more interesting flavour profiles. Personal favourites are the red rye beers, especially in the O-valley.
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 10:43 am
Rye beers are awesome.
Almosthip7
Oct 2, 19 10:50 am
Take off eh!
Everyday Architect
Oct 2, 19 11:36 am
Classic. I spent way too many hours watching that movie with my friends in HS. I probably have the VHS floating around in a box somewhere.
SneakyPete
Oct 2, 19 11:40 am
Bench, I don't think you have anything to back that claim up other than your own personal bias.
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 12:00 pm
Pete, I second Bench's assertion on the craft beer differences. Come at me bro.
archiwutm8
Oct 2, 19 12:26 pm
It's all about Czech and German beers, fight me.
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 12:41 pm
^booooooring. At least throw some Belgians in there if you want a chance.
SneakyPete
Oct 2, 19 1:02 pm
Just around my apartment we have breweries dedicated to sours, belgians, lagers, etc. Even breweries that specialize in ales generally have between 3 and 12 beers that aren't IPAs. I mean, I appreciate the dick waggling that you seem to be going for here, and it's refreshing to see that the idiotic need to posture and preen extends above the 49th parallel, but Bench's post was long on bullshit and opinion and short on actual facts.
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 1:06 pm
^ My favorite local brewery puts out one new brew every Thursday and everyone of them unique and likely never to be redone. I'm a fan of NEIPA tho... not sure I've ever had a bad one of those.
I think the over-hoppy hipster craft brew jive has died down here. Sours and %10+ stouts are increasing in popularity.
SneakyPete
Oct 2, 19 1:49 pm
That's a universal trend. The only thing as likely as a trend is the inevitable backlash to the trend. Gotta love how "individuality" ends up breeding conformity.
atelier nobody
Oct 2, 19 3:33 pm
Funny story from school: One of my classmates worked at a craft brewery. One day a professor who was disappointed in all of our work was on a tirade and asked, "What are you spending your time on that is so much more important than your assignments?!?!" Cue quiet voice from the back of the room, "I make beer." Professor was literally rendered speechless for the next 10 seconds or so - WIN!
OddArchitect
Oct 2, 19 4:55 pm
Had a professor that was actively practicing in another town while teaching. Prof was a bit of egomaniac and a douche. He taught a detailing class where we would get little detailing projects as if he where the principal and we where interns at a firm. One day he was laying into us about how poorly we did as a class on an assignment and how we must not be doing the work, and what the hell have you all been doing. One kid said 'Fixing your mistakes'. Said kid was working in a firm that had been hired to do a renovation of on of the prof's projects. Never heard a prof swear like that.
tduds
Oct 2, 19 6:14 pm
I'd say the average Canadian craft brewery is probably better than the average American craft brewery, but only because the American market is oversaturated with mediocre homebrewers turned pro and entrepreneurial trend-chasers trying to cash in on the craze. Could be I'm just not seeing it because they don't export, but I'm not seeing that oversaturation from Canada & I think it's because the market just isn't as huge.
I'd argue the best American brewers are better than the best Canadian. Not that Canada (& specifically, Quebec) isn't turning out some top-notch beers.
tduds
Oct 2, 19 6:16 pm
That said, as a proud Oregonian give me hops or give me death.
SneakyPete
Oct 2, 19 7:29 pm
What's the best IPA in Oregon (in your opinion)?
tduds
Oct 2, 19 7:43 pm
Tough choice, but lately Breakside's Wanderlust IPA has been doin it for me. Really any IPA from Breakside is likely to knock your socks off.
tduds
Oct 2, 19 7:43 pm
I'm also partial to Fort George's Magnanimous IPA but it's only available for a couple of months (releasing soon!)
Non Sequitur
Oct 2, 19 11:01 pm
tduds, you need to reactivate that untappd account. Also, wedding? Good? Recovered?
b3tadine[sutures]
Oct 2, 19 11:27 pm
Surly Darkness byatches! IPAs are for nunces.
Bench
Oct 3, 19 9:37 am
On the first couple days of fall I am reacquainting myself with porters and stouts - my go-to cold weather beers.
tduds, i think the Canadian market is approaching peak saturation pretty soon. Apparently my own little hometown suburb of a mid-major city has just opened its own microbrewery as well, in a stripmall no less - never thought that would happen. There are about a dozen within a 30-minute drive further away from the city as well, not to mention a slew that have opened in the city itself.
And to the overly serious individuals ... lighten up. Its beer.
Non Sequitur
Oct 3, 19 9:48 am
The Quebec craft market was saturated long before Ontario had it's first string of breweries. Chalk that up to the long list of provincial regulations and mega conglomerate Beer Store. Less gov regulations now, but there are still enough hurdles to keep things local. Sucks that I can't get many craft brews from the north or other provinces, but it leaves us with decent local craft brews with healthy competition. Walk into a quebec beer store (QC has few distribution laws) and you'll see 800 different breweries with almost identical products. Most are shit if you don't know what to look for.
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 3, 19 9:59 am
I would try them all if I had time to.
Bench
Oct 3, 19 10:23 am
tintt, judging by some of the depanneur's i have been to for beer runs, it appears there are people who do have the time, and do try them all ... :)
Non Sequitur
Oct 3, 19 10:28 am
I've tried my fair share of those random QC brews... and my untappd record will back-me up on that one. Tintt has her share of those too I imagine.
SneakyPete
Oct 3, 19 11:55 am
I'm always bummed about how many quality local brews decide to go mass market. They have every right and I am not trying to stifle that, but I love finding quality local brews that I just can't find where I live. It's part of why I like to travel. Seeing the beers from the Northeastern US in California kinda lessens their specialness.
tduds
Oct 3, 19 5:27 pm
NS: Wedding was great. Weather almost was bad but miraculously held off. Honeymoon was magical. I'm "recovered" in that I'm relaxed and re-energized, but still adjusting back into the workday life. Might post some things in here or elsewhere about the past month.
tduds
Oct 2, 19 5:49 pm
Well that month went by fast.
Happy to be home, though. How are all my favorite internet time-wasters?
OddArchitect
Oct 2, 19 6:07 pm
I'm doing marketing research, not wasting time!
citizen
Oct 2, 19 6:49 pm
That's a vicious rumor that's only partially true.
OddArchitect
Oct 3, 19 10:19 am
Only partially . . . .
curtkram
Oct 8, 19 8:41 am
I don't really know what jla is going on about with his Batman thread, but there is something wrong with that kid.
Miles Jaffe
Oct 8, 19 9:02 am
Thank doG for the ignore button.
SneakyPete
Oct 8, 19 12:29 pm
Agreed.
Non Sequitur
Oct 8, 19 12:41 pm
this
Donna Sink
Oct 8, 19 12:59 pm
Those two ^ are really the only Batman and Robin I acknowledge. Although I've enjoyed bits of Gotham - Jada Pinkett Smith and Robin Taylor are both amazing in it, as are the sets/production design. I'm with Sneaky Pete - that thread is lovely when the Ignore feature is engaged!
tduds
Oct 8, 19 1:01 pm
Last week, I went to a screening of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie with a live orchestra. Not only was the music fantastic, but that film is so much fun. I'd forgotten how great Jack Nicholson is as the Joker.
Miles Jaffe
Oct 8, 19 4:44 pm
Best Jack Nicholson film: Goin South (1978). Supporting cast: Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, and Danny DeVito. One of my all-time favorites.
citizen
Oct 8, 19 3:46 pm
What happened to the "Interesting Information" thread on project management from earlier today?
Non Sequitur
Oct 8, 19 4:46 pm
was nuked. started by a new type of bot that copy/pasted an earlier Donna comment as the start of a discussion.
citizen
Oct 8, 19 4:54 pm
And so starts The Rise of the Machines...
curtkram
Oct 8, 19 8:12 pm
I'm sure the machines can't do worse than people
citizen
Oct 8, 19 8:37 pm
Except that the bot post is gone, and we're still here.
Wood Guy
Oct 9, 19 9:11 am
My favorite new (to me) joke, seems appropriate here:
A robot walks into a bar. The bartender says, "we don't serve your kind here." The robot responds, "you will...".
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 9, 19 9:29 pm
Last week I literally said out loud that I was shocked I'd never ripped my pants out at a job site. Whelp, that's no longer the case.
citizen
Oct 9, 19 9:49 pm
Don't keep us in suspense! Was the rip in innocuous, embarrassing, or humiliating territory?
Wilma Buttfit
Oct 9, 19 9:56 pm
Didn't notice the actual occurance, only afterward. Was only somewhat noticeable unless bending so maybe no one else noticed either!!!
OddArchitect
Oct 10, 19 9:55 am
Happened to me last week. Caught my toe on the edge of a partial burred piece of rebar. Took a face plant onto the gravel base of the concrete slabs cold joint. Luckily my forearm saved my face. The knee of my pants did not survive.
citizen
Oct 10, 19 12:39 pm
I think we have the makings of a new thread... Someone did one years back about the pitfalls of doing field measuring and documentation for as-builts. It was hilarious, and educational!
eeayeeayo
Oct 10, 19 4:11 pm
I had a spectacular pants-ripping incident many years ago. I crouched to look at something while on a roof, and the outer seam up the leg of my pants decided to unsew itself in slow-motion, starting at the cuff and getting all the way up to the hip. The roof ladder was located in a closet in the exact center of a very occupied open-plan office building. I got quite the stares upon my exit from the closet.When I got back to the office I put it back together with binder clips.
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..
Did the AIA help work this out, or are they in cahoots?
I'm gonna throw something in here... that there are branches of my gouvernements public servants (not policy people... just random wankers with enough seniority to make demands) who are presently running crusades to have "designated shooter" safe spaces in federal gov offices. These are otherwise functioning adults but we keep wasting our time explaining to them (to their outrage) that the building code does not change based on the USA's inane gun loving orgies and its obvious casualties.
We're better than this as design professionals and no, we're not going to start placing poor public servants in windowless boxes with doors that cannot be opened from the outside. We even had to explain to them is a graphic way why multi stall bathrooms (specifically the women) should not have a auto-lock safety function preventing outside access.
I've probably said too much now.
Keep talking, Non. It's important.
Jla, moving away from gun obsession is not the total answer, but it is a large part of it. IMO, anyone who owns weapons outside of hunting (which are locked un unloaded 99% of the time) is a nut.
I suppose they'd murder fewer people since I know of no other weapon capable of mowing down double digits of humans in single digits of minutes. The goal isn't to totally eradicate murder, it's to keep more people alive. Removing the gun from the equation keeps more people alive. Plain & simple.
Cool story, but that's not significant enough to justify the obsession (and illusion of safety). My point still stands.
So start with the easy one and call gun ownership nuts what they really are: nuts. Then once it's established, like in all other modern places, that this is backwards as fuck crazy, then you can also address the rest of your nonsense. Simple, see? (/S) Until then, if you support gun ownership, you're part of the problem regardless of how many anecdotal examples you state.
I disagree. Owning a firearm, as I stated above, is nuts. You're actively supporting gun violence by your position.
it would... if a roundhouse kick could level a classroom in 3seconds. Until then, please stop digging that hole.
I have not. You're conflating gun obsession with reason.
I would rather not have a gun in my home. The odds that someone will enter my home with a gun is infinitesimally small compared to the ever present danger of the "just in case" gun.
incorrect again. how's the hole now?
And you're not understanding that access to, and the dumb idea that one needs to own firearms, are the root of the issue. If you can't wrap your head around that one then all you're good for is digging holes.
I have no issues with reminding people that gun ownership is nuts and nothing more than a illusion. I treat it like any other invisible friend nonsense like religion. We're better off without the illusion regardless of what your archaic ingrained feelings are.
I don't live in a violent society. Perhaps that's because guns, and it's idiotic must-own dogma is not a thing here. Regardless, promoting ownership for (the illusion of) safety only adds more weapons and more variables in society. This only leads to more "accidents" which then leads to more guns due to fear of such "accidents". It's a dumb way to live it and it would get much more ridicule if it was not so fucking sad. I guess we can only rely on thoughts and prayers for the foreseeable future... speaking of illusions.
It's not, but guns as heavily restricted and no-one is allowed to cary them on their person. We also have strict laws about purchase, transport, and storing. Gun violence here is directly related to the easily obtainable american weapons that are brought over the border. Not ideal, but no-one can just go out and purchase semi-auto toys or pistols on a whim. Just not a thing and articles like the wiki entry ignores that many of those weapons are hunting (or to fend off polar bears)... very very few are handguns and none are of the AR-whatever type.
also, no source on the 10million of undocumented weapons for Canada... so that's not really a reliable article. What is this, high school research time?
JLA, there is literally no rational for owning any of those types. They simply should not be made available for sale.
Regardless of the outcome of any possible regulations for guns, can we begin regulating stupidity? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-body-armor-armed-rifle-sparks-panic-missouri-walmart-n1040676
Saw that this morning and am not surprised. Dumb people will do dumb things. Dumb people with access to guns will do dumb things with said guns. Can't stop people from being dumb and apparently everyone is ok with easy access to weapons. Its your mess M'urica and all your hands are dirty by association to the 2A obsession nonsense. Thoughts and prayers to all affected. /s
The "killers gonna kill" argument ignores the very obvious fact that instruments of death have a wide range of deadliness and assault rifles have no purpose other than to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. It's a bullshit argument and at this point everybody ought to know better.
Idiots and maniacs will always exist, but like I said at the top of this dumb thread - I know of no other weapon capable of mowing down double digits of humans in single digits of minutes. The goal isn't to totally eradicate murder, it's to keep more people alive. Removing the gun from the equation keeps more people alive. Plain & simple.
Yep, and the weapons remain a problem too. Try to keep up Jla.
reducing availability will make it less likely that someone gets such stupid guns in the first place. The root is access to and the inane cavalier attitude people have to an utterly useless and dangerous "god given right". Stop painting it as something else because you need a murderous toy to feel safe.
"Would banning guns stop or reduce suicide?"
Yes https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2019/01/28/reducing-suicides-by-firearms
"A murderous nut bag isn’t going to stop because of a specific type of gun being less available."
JFC can you read? I *specifically* said stopping murder is not the goal, harm reduction is the goal. Removing a tool of expedient murder will make murder less expedient and keep more people alive. If someone goes on a murderous rampage and kills 2-3 people instead of FUCKING FIFTY, I'd consider that a victory. You're missing the damn point, with such repetition that I have to assume it's on purpose.
"They seek to mitigate and reduce damage rather than address the root of the problem."
Why not both? There's nothing about addressing a crisis of mental illness that precludes also addressing a culture of fetishized violence.
The problems are multivariable and the solutions are multifaceted, and we are currently addressing zero of them while using the multi-variability as a wedge to avoid addressing any given one.
Furthermore, using the impossibility of perfection to stop any attempt at reduction is a bad faith argument.
Useless possession for the average joe. It is absolutely useless to own the "assault" type ones and it is ridiculous to argue that one has to right to own them.
One should stanch the bleeding before addressing the injury.
For the umpteenth time, no one is suggesting that we should ban semi-automatics and then do nothing else ever. It's step one, and using the existence of later steps to avoid doing step one is a very, very reductive and counterproductive line of thinking.
step 2 is get rid of even more guns. step 3 is education, step 4 is return to steps 1 and 2.
In policy terms I'm not sure, but as a goal Step 2 should be to address the crisis of radicalization of young American men towards misogynist and extreme-right violence.
I think a lot of it is borne out of a crisis of masculinity that our culture is experiencing, where the ideas of what it means to be a man in our society are suddenly thrown into turmoil and doubt. At the same time, not enough is done to create a safe place for boys to explore that new territory and define identities for themselves. Much in the same way that the political void created by a toppling of authoritarianism was filled not by democracy but by Al Qaeda and ISIS, the cultural void created by the toppling of traditional masculine / feminine roles is filled by extremists and opportunists who provide simple (but wrong) answers to people with complicated (but well-intended) questions.
I don't know how to solve the problem, but I think that's the problem. But before we can tackle the long arduous process of de-radicalizing young American men, we need to quickly stop more of them from killing us.
How to create a culture that fosters vulnerability and emotional confidence in the next generation of boys is something that I think about a lot now that I'm approaching probable fatherhood.
Correct Jla, no guns is a good end result. Those who want to hunt can have their weapons locked in a secure storage facility and need to make the proper travel arrangements when said weapon is out in the public realm. They should also need to maintain annual cont-ed (at their cost) in order to maintain their license (oops... I mean bullshit 2A right). Side note, I added the air-quotes to assault because I know it's a trendy media buzz word.
I don't want to ban guns but I do want to make it much more difficult to purchase and keep guns. I say this as a gun user and soon to be owner.
I want it to be nearly impossible to own one and with mandatory annual training and inspections. If you want your silly murderous toys, then take your responsibilities seriously.
tduds, you should get a single shot barrel loading musket.
My grandfather has a barrel loading musket. I'd love to inherit it.
Don't really care for the copy-paste wall of text JLA. I still stand by my point. No reason for the gun obsession and security paranoia. We get it, you've submitted yourself to that nonsense and can't think your way out of it. It's a shitty lowest common denominator type position too, but whatever, you just keep pushing that self-defense nonsense. The solution to guns is more guns... sure it is. What a idiotic position to take.
aaand with that I'm out.
But, are you really?
It’s dumb because easy access to guns is the reason you’re in this mess so your defense solution is akin to saying: we fucked up, so now let’s get more guns out there to protect ourselves from our past mistakes. The criminal angle is weak and does not add any value to your horrible position.
"Can you explain why it’s a dumb concern that many many people will be unable to defend themselves from criminals who don’t care about following gun laws?"
Because it's a scenario that occurs with such extreme rarity that it doesn't even begin to justify all the innocent lives taken by the very same guns.
There are good reasons to own firearms, a vigilante fantasy is not one of them.
(Ok I guess I lied about being out)
To Tduds point, I am far more worried about the random joe with a gun than a criminal with a gun. There are far more of the former too.
Every bad guy with a gun thinks they are a good guy with a gun.
sorry, wrong thread
You still don’t get it Jla. You really are part of the problem. Congratulations at holding back social progress.
You’re hopeless. It’s very alarming that someone so detached from reason owns a firearm. Very happy that there is a good political border between me and folks like you.
Guns aren't on the back to school supply lists yet. Should they be? Kids need to be able to protect themselves somehow.
Are there Disney and paw patrol graphics on them?
See my previous comment regarding your hopelessness. I guess this subject is too difficult for you. You’re one “queen will come and take our land” comment away from going full Balkins here.
I don’t think you’re very good at this. None of these change my initial position. You’re still a fool and probably should not own weapons.
I am exactly making that statement.
More precisely, I' saying that small incremental steps does fuck-all to calm the gun obsession fires. Go full nuclear on this or keep pilling on more guns.
Those people are fools
Derail, Dissemble, distract, disguise.
Dishonest and disgusting.
By this logic you should never take Ibuprofin.
Can post-tensioned also be a mood? An emoji? Thanks in advance for responding.
I'm frequently pre-stressed.
A pre-sressed emoji is a great idea too!
I guess I can't use the emoticon keyboard from my phone here... I tried to use a closed umbrella emoticon... I felt it was appropriate.
Ha, yes. I just thought you were showing the ultimate expressionless expression which works somehow too.
#Postmodernpostension
Page 2? unacceptable.
I guess we should not all take our vacations at the same time next year.
I'm edging on writing a balkin'esque long rant about designers submitting permit and CDs docs without knowing the basics of construction and reality... Currently debating if I should save the project or let it turn into a larger dumpster fire. Probably best I stay quiet.
Client coming to you after realizing they hired a faker ?
Not this time... this is all internal hence my reluctance to expand.
You all get a vacation? That's one part that sucks about changing employers ... all the vacation time you've accrued can't transfer with you. Yeah, the payout made my last paycheck nice, but I have to spend the time earning the vacation hours at the new job before I get to use them.
NS you could be describing my current project. We all know it is a dumpster fire, but still helpful to have our QA/QC person point it out. And I doubt one person can save it at this point, I doubt we can be...
Oye, not looking like I’m in the clear. We may be inheriting a 30-million project as you describe in Bench.
We recently inherited a project right in our niche market typology because one of our main competitors couldn't complete it. Looking through the Revit model for the first time .... holy crap. Always good to know that you're better than the guy you compete with.
Bench, I've seen that happen on some of our inherited models too. On one particular project, the office felt it a good idea to give it to a new hire (who had swooned over ownership with software skills). That person took the model as is and attempted to work with it instead of fixing it. I had to pull away from other projects for nearly a month to get that model back into working order. This was after permit docs were completed so we were passed the abandon and start over phase. That staff left shortly after and most of the CA work had to be done in CAD.
Cant remember the last time I used cad ....sounds awful. We started a new model from scratch on day 1, definitely the way to go.
After the project in my example, I only do new models. Juniors in the office don't get it, yet, which is very frustrating. We're 50/50 CAD/BIM due to interior jobs, smaller projects, and aging senior staff (without quality & reliable support). eugh.
Planning a wedding really saps my "dickin around on the internet" time"
I keep checking my mailbox... still no invite.
I must have forgotten to add Canadian postage.
dickin around or not, you had some solid contributions on the "trial by fire" thread.
Tduds, I’ll check my neighbors igloo maybe they received it instead.
Planning “a” wedding or planning your wedding?
I'd never plan a wedding that wasn't my own. I don't know why anybody would.
I've already worked over 30 hours this week. This pace is unsustainable. I mean, I don't *want* the inverted yield curve to mean a recession, but I'd like to work a normal week for a change?
<sigh>
Upbeat news is that I have a group of about a dozen women architects all going to see the Indy premier of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? tomorrow night! At the theater that serves wine!!!!!
10hr days start to get rough very quick especially if a big chunk of that time is spent on the phone and managing site fuck-ups. Our office is working at full capacity at this time and we’re turning away large (and small, no judgment
here, #allprojectsmatter)projects because there is not enough senior staff available to oversee them.
I understand the motivation to get while the gettin's good, but I really wish the industry would calm down every so often.
I lost one of my contract jobs this week. Not because of a pending recession but a result of mismanagement and I'm the easy one to cut.
Gonna miss fixing those 2 13/16 over 12 roof pitches and columns in front of doors. :(
Sounds like you lucked out.
I may have misunderstood. Not getting oofed. I guess that's good.
my office is strangely slow at the moment, very weird feeling. Anyone else slow?
Extremely. And this is after layoffs.
definitely not slow. Been working 50-60 hour weeks the past few weeks because we are having a hard time finding support staff.
I have heard that other offices in our market are a little slow - but we definitely aren’t.
My team has a ton of work. Other teams in my office are in a lag as their projects either haven't started or are wrapping up.
Extremely busy, but still nervous about a potential slowdown because I've heard other firms are a bit slow.
Bring on the recession! Maybe the firm I'm at can finally hire some help for us. Or even better, maybe i'll get laid off...
I'm busy and I refuse to do overtime cause I can't be fucked.
Very busy with many deadlines stacked ontop of each other. I've been given some staff to help but it feels like it's taking longer piece the projects apart than if I did them all myself.
@sneakypete what's your market? i was very slow since april, got some stuff to do now. commercial work in east asia.
Generally slow, but coming in waves, so there'll be a week of having to stretch to find enough billable hours, followed by a week or two of insanity. On the other hand, they seem to be planning some hiring in the near future, so apparently there are projects in the pipeline.
I took some photos of RCR's Tossols Basil Athletics Ground in the Garrotxa, Catatonia, Spain.
I highly recommend a visit to this part of the world if you can, I'm privileged to have been there, go and walk the landscape and appreciate the built environment.
A few holiday snaps.
Respect.
https://www.samsharpe.co.uk/projects/tossols-basil-athletics-ground
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When your job starts making you angry and an absolute impatient asshole is it time to change jobs?
Just did. Now that I'm a short timer, I'm being an unapologetic fuck to all the general contractors, but for all the right reasons.
Some of us older architects used to call that phase "tempering of an architect". Basically, like a piece of steel, you get pounded over and over until you get hard. The idealistic spirit of your youth has been purged out as a impurity in your metal.... Welcome aboard! Now get off my lawn!
sometimes, depends whether it's the work or the people. with good people it's worth trying to make it work.
Tempering is a delicate process. Too hard and the steel becomes brittle and breaks easily; too soft and it loses it's ability to hold an edge.
Not an older architect, nor a metalworker (and I don't really care to "Rich Balkin-ize" the information via wikipedia), but isn't what mightyaa describes forging rather than tempering? Forging is a hammering process, tempering is a heating and cooling process, no?
Getting hammered is part of the process.
^ better than what mightaa used originally "you get pounded over and over until you get hard."
Forging creates the tool, tempering is your boss throwing you (the tool) into the deep end of the quenching oil...you either harden right quick or you crack and explode.
retirement party a couple weeks ago... boss gave a nice talk about the retiring guy named roy and a former principal named Dick. "Dick would come up behind him and start hammering. He'd follow him around all the time. Roy always took it with a smile."
Apparently I'm the only one in the office with a dirty mind.
We prefer to be called "Curmudgeon-Americans."
If I had known then what I know now, I would've just stayed where I was 20 years ago, but YMMV of course.
Probably. It's like being an art gallery sponsored by the Sacklers.
@EA .. Probably... I liked the word since it sounds like "temperment" which tends to transform once you realise how many stupid people are out there, and how often you are asked to do stupid things that will never work and waste your time. And interns all look like:
Maybe "work hardening" is a better term for this?
Never thought I'd see anime ever on this forum, the times sure have changed.
Heh, where do you guys get your interns. I'm like... we have these 5-7 options (yes, I can't even nail down the number of options) 2 of which are from the principal and the others from the client that will never work. We need option 1, 2, and 5 fully polished up for review, and sketch out the others, flagging why they don't work for internal review. We've scheduled another meeting on Friday for the sole purpose of choosing one option to move forward. Interns respond "when you get back friday you'll have 5 new bad ideas from the client. How about we work on only option 1 and 2 and you do the rest of the busy work. We don't know how to sketch and don't have time to do 7 revit options."
Sounds like your interns are correct. Maybe try listening to them.
It was a slow day today, and I started searching wikipedia for metalworking terms a la Balkins. I was going to post something here, but decided to make it into a blog post instead. I'll follow up with a link in the next couple of days when I have a chance to compose something more than just some random thoughts.
Check it out ... https://archinect.com/arch-ellipsis/analysis-of-the-profession-metallurgical-analogy
Does anyone else we should stop building towers and homes of concrete, glass and steel? It's going to become a huge issue in the future when it comes to heatwaves, the materials aren't suitable to live in.
Thoughts?
I like Windows.
I do think THE issue of being able to inhabit buildings in the future is going to be keeping them cool, not warm. Heating is going to become much less of a concern but cooling will be enormously important. Unfortunately, cooling inside air currently requires adding heat to outside air, so it's truly a vicious cycle: the more we cool ourselves, the more we *have to cool ourselves. My goal is for every building to be designed on the Umbrella House typology....which will also look cool. Shade structures everywhere!
Oh and more to your point, archiwutm8: mass timber is the only thing we should be building with.
Donna, are there large-scale lumber farms set-out to anticipate such a conversion from concrete/steel construction to timber? Don't really see the advantage, yet.
sleep outside then? these things seem to work fine in dubai though.
Midlander - it's not just the inside but the materials we use affects the whole urban space, especially where the city haven't been designed to cope with rising temperatures levels. Places like Dubai temperature levels are rising year by year as well, however their cities use master planning techniques to cool down.
My take is concrete, steel, etc. = survivability. Wood is the worst when it comes to surviving mother nature’s wraith. Think of it this way; if you were tasked with designing a building that will still be standing in a hundred years with minimal maintenance, is wood really your goto? Also… just look back to historic architecture before air-conditioning; how did they keep buildings comfortable inside? (thermal mass, creating airflow, water, placement on site, regional architecture to address local climates and material availability, etc.)
mightyaa, when you include having a safe, habitable planet for over 100 years within your maintenance costs, yes, wood is extremely viable. Didn't a big report just come out saying concrete *production* is terrible for the environment? IMO concrete for foundations is fine, but buildings made entirely of concrete aren't environmentally responsible. One could theoretically pour a very robust concrete foundation and slab then build on it with wood - without using plastic, please - and in 100 years tear all that wood down, compost it, and build a new structure on the old footings with newly-grown tree lumber.
Hard to see that work on a commercial or higher density housing project.
Fifty story buildings constructed of wood? Are you serious? A habitable planet in 100 years is an abstraction when your apartment or office building is on fire or rocking back and forth in an earthquake. And we wonder why architects aren't taken very seriously.
there isn't a generalized solution in building construction systems alone. i'm very wary of mass timber. like insulation, it's useful but has big risks. the grenfall tower or mgm grand killed hundreds due to smoke and flame spread without structural collapse. mass timber would only increase the risks of inappropriate finish materials. it was mass timber that failed at notre dame too...
Donna - concrete is one of the biggest if not the biggest pollutants in the world right now.
get your facts correct. fossil fuels represent 87% of CO2 emissions. concrete production represents about 5%, half of which is fossil fuel consumption. new tech allows trapping CO2 in concrete, ideally sourced from industrial waste recovery.
i'm making a new thread for this. too hard to keep replying in small text blocks.
we must learn from the firemen
that was supposed to say fremen
Production of Portland cement is responsible for 8.0 to 8.9% of all global warming emissions, according to the most recent, reliable sources, and use is increasing each year. Fly ash (or other pozzolan admixes) can replace up to 40-50% of standard mixes, with no loss in strength, but some effects on working characteristics. There are CO2 capturing technologies such as CarbonCure and other ways to reduce the detrimental effects of concrete, but an easy approach is to minimize its use when possible. Using renewable resources, responsibly, makes more sense than using carbon-polluting materials, when we are rapidly running out of time to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Miles - concrete produces 4-8% of the world's C
, I'd consider that a lot.
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The trolling at this forum is getting to be the only discussion that's happening.
Sorry, I’ve got too many dumpster fires at the office at the moment that need attention.
Is your entire office just made up of dumpsters? I ask because those things seem to get set on fire a lot in your office.
seriously ready to try a project for which architect, contractor, and client are all women. I just finished a two hour punchlist walk-through a.k.a. dick-swinging contest.
I'm guessing you were not impressed.
I've enjoyed / not-enjoyed telling owner's reps to please shut up and let me do the job they hired me for on punch walks...
Hell, I'm a dude, and would love to work with more female clients and contractors. I really hate the dick-swinging, even when I win.
If I felt like starting a thread on advice for the young architect right now entry number 1 would be: if you're in the US, learn Spanish.
Get ready for a jlax tirade.
Counterpoint ... I speak Spanish and have never found the need to use it on a project site, YMMV
I’ve encountered more people who only speak Mandarin than those who only speak Spanish. The Spanish speakers also seem to come without cultural protocols that will obscure communication.
I'm good with my 2 official languages. Don't need a 3rd.
I know just enough to give small comments and it seems to give me a little bit more respectability with the crews. It's usually the same phrases that they can speak in english, but I guess I'm showing effort to communicate with them?
jla-x, are you certain that I don't work in the SW?
I agree, I wish I spoke Spanish fluently, but I've been able to get bye without it because most crews have a bilingual supervisor I can communicate with.
Like Steeple, I've had more trouble with Asian languages, where often even the supervisors barely speak any English.
I worked with a lot of Chinese contractors in an old job on the east coast (We did a lot of restaurant work, with a lot of asian restauranteur clients). I speak extremely basic Mandarin - which turned out to be useless as most American Chinatowns started as Cantonese diasporas. It was here I first learned the usefulness of being able to draw a detail on the fly on a a piece of plywood.
I love finding random details drawn on pieces of scrap / plywood / gyp board / sheathing / whatever is close by on job sites. I usually try to snap a photo of them when I see them. We should have a thread dedicated to these.
I support this idea, Everyday! I love those sketches too.
Saw some contractor's pickup truck this morning with a cardboard box in the back marked "Marshmallows, Product of USA." I have so many questions...
My guess is it's hiding the beer cooler
Seemed pretty haphazardly thrown in the back for the beer cooler. In my head I started imagining the contractor giving the workers a version of the Stanford marshmallow experiment to see if they can follow directions. Of course that then led to me wondering if I can incorporate this into the specifications somehow to ensure the contractor reads the project manual (like Van Halen's no brown M&Ms request) ... "a bowl of white mini marshmallows shall be provided at every OAC meeting."
may not contain outer most layer of marshmallow or marshmallow "crust"
"Sealant Backing Material: Nonstaining; compatible with joint substrates, sealants, primers, and other joint fillers; and approved for applications indicated by sealant manufacturer based on field experience and laboratory testing. Marshmallows are not acceptable sealant backing materials."
"Silencers for Metal Door Frames: BHMA A156.16, Grade 1; neoprene or rubber; minimum diameter 1/2 inch (13 mm); fabricated for drilled-in application to frame. Marshmallows are not acceptable."
What about the marshmallow SIP?
mallow SIP
What's the effective R-value/in. of mallow?
For the SIP or for the human being?
Are you going to start stacking up human beings for insulation!?
Goodness no, that’s a thermal break.
I'm having too much fun going through past CA phases in search of caulk pics. Oh, and we're swamped with deadlines too... Everyone needs a hobby I guess.
Let's see if this works like the Bat Signal:
https://hollywoodlife.com/2019/08/28/brad-pitt-muscles-venice-film-festival-pics/
You rang?
OK I clicked through to the article and now my work day is shot to hell. Thanks a lot, Sneaky :-)
There better be some sweet caulk pics in that link...
I'm an architect, come on. I definitely always notice caulk everywhere I go.
Join the party then... pics required.
I hate it when a GC texts pics of his caulk, very unwanted.
I ask my GC for un healthy amounts of caulk pics.
Last day of work until October!
Feels good, y'all.
Happy wedding things!
It's my 15 year anniversary this weekend. Gulp.
congrats tduds and tintt :)
Architects may not have a direct responsibility, but we share in the guilt by association. One exit out of this space, almost certainly caused the death of 33 people. That, and our collective puritanical, prudish tendencies. This is fucking sad.
I'd like to see a section, which might or might not include a hatch to the deck above. Then info on alarm devices and any locks that may or may not have been engaged. Don't know if that's puritanical or not, but it might shed some light.
By puritanical - and I'll allow for a shitty plan - I mean that access to the showers appears to not be directly connected to the sleeping quarters? It seems uniquely stupid to have that many people - sleeping - below the "exit" and only have one means by which you egress?
Sad? Yes. But I refuse to share any "guilt by association. "
That's great for you.
Easy peasy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_architecture
"Naval architecture, or naval engineering, along with automotive engineering and aerospace engineering, is an engineering discipline branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the engineering design process, shipbuilding, maintenance, and operation of marine vessels and structures."
Please explain how I share any responsibility, direct or otherwise, when I am not an engineer. The most I share with the people who designed this boat is my humanity.
Know when you're being trolled.
I've not really found b3tadine[sutures] to be a troll. Passionate, sure. Antagonistic? Argumentative? Sometimes. But not a troll.
How can I troll, when I honestly believe that despite this being a boat, it does involve something that is our core competency; egress. Sure, we aren't technically responsible, but why shouldn't we have a say in the basic life safety principles? This isn't even that far outside our purview, architects have been involved in some capacity in boat designs forever. This, this is low hanging fruit, and we, if we had any real pull, should push for consultancy around boats and habitation.
^^ Thank you for that: well-stated, relevant, and most importantly, nuanced. Much better than "we share in the guilt...".
It's so easy to pop-off with a quick rejoinder (he said, as an expert), but the clarifying addendum is always better and more helpful.
I've always found the complexity and importance of codes undercut by the capitalism connected. Following code is ultimately useless if the person following the code doesn't understand the reasons for doing so, especially when it's complicated and the client is leaning on them to make things happen that cause the professional to look for exceptions or vague language to get it to work. Often times the "why" is found in the commentary, which costs more money and, as such, generally doesn't get purchased.
Yes because only in capitalism are codes undercut. Chernobyl was definitely western sabotage. State operated entities are perfect
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Chernobyl, was arrogance coupled with incompetence.
archi_dude, things aren't binary just because you want them to be.
I can't say for sure what it is, maybe something out of our childhood, but some architects want to get involved in everything everywhere; that's not how it works, naval architecture and engineering is a separate discipline, as is automotive design, airplane design, motorcycles and bicycles. Do you imagine an architect reviewing the stair details on a cruise ship? Checking clearances on a airplane bathroom? The life and safety mechanisms put in place in boats, planes and cars are an industry standard and work well most of the time, and just like with architecture and public buildings, a tragedy of these proportions may be what they need to review those, but I'm 100% sure they won't be looking at 14 or 16 tomes of codes related to building a permanent structure for human occupancy. We do have a tendency to believe we know more than anyone on a multitude of "space related" issues.
Anyone else following Donna’s twitter feud with Michael Riscica?
That clown is barking up the wrong tree. He's had issues, and it appears he still does. The exact same reasons that Donna is slamming his ass for. He's everything wrong with Jersey. Everything.
Jersey? I thought he was from Portland, OR
Feuding on Twitter? That's even more pointless than feuding on Archinect.
Everyday, I'm hoping it goes quiet now. I just can't stand by while people say shitty untrue things about my friends.
TBQH, I was surprised he responded to you at all. Looking at his tweets it is just endless self promotion of his podcast and his conference. I figured he has them automated at this point because they aren’t even timely.
Also, I'm glad you called him out on his tirade against certain ARE prep providers and the AIA and NCARB. This is feeling a lot like his complaint with AIA Portland. He wanted to get something from the AIA and NCARB that they weren't going to give him and he's decided to make an issue of it. He'll say it's not personal, but it definitely looks like he's taken it personally.
OMGoodness the stories I’m hearing from online folk right now. Whatever happened to the SMIA list, I wonder?
Am I missing on some juicy action?
Not juicy, just petty. Mostly.
Almost makes me want to get on twitter.
From what I’ve seen in the Facebook group he moderates, you get one chance to piss him off. Once he’s made up his mind about something there is no changing it.
If you push back at all, you’ll get kicked out. He seems ever more likely to burn bridges and scorch the earth than he is to resolve conflict in some type of professional way.
Everyday, that sounds like a lot of Starchitect genius heroes we all know and love, yes? LOL
Most starchitect genius heroes aren't getting into petty arguments about whether the AIA will promote their ARE test prep business. Don't get me wrong, I think the work Michael does to support and encourage young architects, and those aspiring to become one, is incredible and I hope he continues doing it. Maybe he has a little more tempering to go through (shameless self-promotion). I think he turns off a fair number of people just from his approach to conflict, and that bothers me. It probably shouldn't, but it does.
I totally agree with you that the work he does to support young architects is amazing! He seems to work really hard at it and I think he's helped lots of people. But he's burning a lot of bridges, too, and the attitude of unwillingness to compromise on one's own goals is a common perception of the ego-driven reputation that most people have of architects.
May I ask what has he done to burn bridges? I don't follow the guy and didn't find anything online about his 'behavior'. I'm not doubting you, just can't find anything. To be fair I didn't look very hard. I have an MOB to crank out . . .
Sorry I didn't see your question earlier Chad. I think a good example was the Portland AIA thing a few years ago. Rather than just working it out, he decided to leave the chapter ... pay dues to somewhere else ... and start a master list of organizations who he feels are supporting young architects and emerging professionals.
This thing with Donna has started out down a similar path. He's already blocked her on twitter and posted a diatribe about it on his ARE study group on Facebook.
There is also a tendency I've seen in his social media posts sometimes where he expects someone to disagree with him ... he'll post a comment like -- look someone will get offended by this -- in an attempt to disarm anyone that might disagree with him. More signalling that you are either with him or offended by him and not worth engaging in a discussion.
Anyway, that's my $0.02 ... I'm sure others see this differently.
Thanks for the info. I know nothing about the guy and don't know anyone who dose so this is all new to me.
He has a bit of a cult following among the aspiring and newly minted architect crowd. I had heard of him through his terrible website, but didn't really give him much thought until I met him at a conference a number of years ago. He was fun to hang out with for a day or two. I like most of what he's doing even if I don't like the way he does it all the time.
I will say that I don't think I've heard of one complaint from anyone that has been through his ARE Boot Camp program (which is just one of the many things he does). Plenty of people complain about the cost of it (who aren't in the program), but it seems like if you can afford it and are able to get into it, the value is there.
nah, from the east, I thought jersey, but perhaps long island...
He used to live here? maybe still does?
Portland that is
I think he left PDX shortly after his kerfuffle with AIA Portland a few years ago. I think he's been living in his van as he travels the country on some type of speaking tour to AIA chapters. I'm not sure if he has a permanent address to call home at this point.
Wow. It seems in line with someone on the edge of sanity.
Hi there!
New here! I believe this is the right thread to introduce myself? Nice to meet y'all!
hi!
Howdy.
hello hello!
Why does it seem that he wants it both ways?
All this blather, I had to look him up.
I'm looking for work product, I want to see if this guy has any chops. His website is empty, not a single photo of a building - no plans, models, renderings, testimonials, etc. - in fact, no images at all. Google image search returns a bunch of selfies of some weaselly little bald-headed guy.
Not sure how you can call yourself an architect if you don't do architecture.
Check the blog ... oh, he's selling architecture courses. Perfect. Those who can't do, teach.
Miles, I have to mention that it's unfair to use the term "weasely little bald-headed guy". No comments on personal appearance, please. I feel like we're trying to move past that as a society, aren't we? That's why Michelle Wolf's joke that Sarah Huckabee Sanders "burns facts and uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye" was so brilliant - it didn't disparage her looks, and it even complimented her makeup skills!
How about "weasely"?
He's clearly not a large, long-haired weasel.
Miles.
A long haired weasel would be an improvement.
There's supposed to be a laughing face emoji after that "Miles" up there, Miles. It didn't come through on the phone.
watch the libertarians flock to the Sanders article like moths to a flame
unless he paid for the fire crew. This is a thing now in the states isnt it? NPR did a piece on it not that long ago. Insurance companies pay something like 30K a day to put out fires around a house, but only if you have the right insurance. They watch your house burn down if not. That is about as libertarian as it gets....anyway, America is a funny funny place, where everyone has a funny, funny face. All the streets are paved with gold. And no one ever grows old... why is this strange song running in my head and where did it come from?
Is someone up for answering a few questions if they're an architect? I have a school project on this, and I'd really, really appreciate it if any of y'all could help me out.
If you're short on time, you can answer these without too much detail. I can add on more.
How long have you been working in your profession?
Where do you live?
What do you like to do outside of work?
What is your job title?
When and why did you choose your career path?
What is the name of your company or employer?
Describe your primary duties and skills.
Describe your physical work environment.
What is your favorite part of your job?
What is your salary? (You don't need this if you're uncomfortable with it)
Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your degree?
Describe in detail three of the courses that you took that are closely related to your current career. (if you want, you dont need to go too in depth. i can make it up)
Describe the two courses that you considered most challenging.
What resources did your school have available to help you get through the most difficult courses? [Cite your sources]
Regarding the two most challenging courses, how did you persevere?
From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees?
What was the title or titles of the degree(s)?
What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to receive those licenses?
How would your clients and coworkers describe you?
What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career?
Why should a high school student consider a career in your field? What important contributions could they make?
How long have you been working in your profession? Where do you live? What do you like to do outside of work? What is your job title? When and why did you choose your career path? What is the name of your company or employer? Describe your primary duties and skills. Describe your physical work environment. What is your favorite part of your job? What is your salary? (You don't need this if you're uncomfortable with it) Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your degree? Describe in detail three of the courses that you took that are closely related to your current career. (if you want, you dont need to go too in depth. i can make it up) Describe the two courses that you considered most challenging. What resources did your school have available to help you get through the most difficult courses? [Cite your sources] Regarding the two most challenging courses, how did you persevere? From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees? What was the title or titles of the degree(s)? What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to receive those licenses? How would your clients and coworkers describe you? What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career? Why should a high school student consider a career in your field? What important contributions could they make?
My response to the highschool kiddo was cut off under the reply time limit... here it is. Good thing I copied it.
How long have you been working in your profession? Long enough
Where do you live? Canada,
What do you like to do outside of work? Hobbies
What is your job title? Architect and Chief Coffee Consumption
When and why did you choose your career path? Sounded like a fun thing to do at the time
What is the name of your company or employer? No
Describe your primary duties and skills. Design shit that is also build-able and economically feasible for my clients.
Describe your physical work environment. Computer, mouse, chair, plenty of pens, coffee mug, bottle of single malt
What is your favorite part of your job? Answering dumb surveys from lazy high school wankers.
What is your salary? (You don't need this if you're uncomfortable with it) less than a million
Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your degree? Bachelor of architectural studies with minor in art history
Describe in detail three of the courses that you took that are closely related to your current career. (if you want, you dont need to go too in depth. i can make it up) No
Describe the two courses that you considered most challenging. Civil and Painting
What resources did your school have available to help you get through the most difficult courses? [Cite your sources] Library, faculty, peers
Regarding the two most challenging courses, how did you persevere? Excellent
From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees? The best one in my country
What was the title or titles of the degree(s)? Master of the Universe
What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to receive those licenses? OAA, completed ExAC
How would your clients and coworkers describe you? Interesting, diligentent, maniacal, drunk, supernatural, godly
What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career? Die
Why should a high school student consider a career in your field? What important contributions could they make? Pick up the phone and talk to someone. You won't get anywhere with this lazy crowd-sourcing jive.
I kind of have gotten somewhere. All I need to do is embellish your responses a bit more and I've still got a valid interview. Thanks!
Seriously, a phone call would be easier than answering all of this via text. Also, one could look at an archinect profile and get answers to a lot of these. I'm happy to help, but a list of 21 questions is actually kind of daunting.
Honestly, I can't think of anything to make what I do sound more boring, than to answer a list of questions.
bonus note, my contractor stood me up at a scheduled deficiency review this morning. He's not going to like my site report (the local custodian gave up unsupervised access). I like doing CA, that's not boring. What's boring is delegating work knowing that it's unlikely it'll get done to an acceptable level of care... and that I'll redo everything eventually.
Sequiter, could you describe why civil arch was hard at least? I'm still going to keep everything else, but I'd still appreciate it if you could help out this lazy high school wanker
A'stude, Civil as in Civil engineering. At my uni, it was the course most students retook... some taking it thrice. Failing a 3rd time could easily lead to expulsion from the program. It was a 6hr per week course, with monday morning 8:30am start time and I got a solid A (85-90%). Civil is the generic term for all that is basic material structure and physics calculations. (moment, deflection, rotation, etc). Basically high-school physics on steroids and you have to keep in mind that we have 40+ hours of studio work to do in addition to this.
Thanks, and would you mind me just pulling courses from Uni of Calgary's arch program for some of the questions? (I'm assuming that's where you went) thanks again!
I did not go to calgary and whatever courses were available back when I was in school are unlikely to be the same now anyways. Best to look into the accreditation boards to see what constitutes architecture curricula in your area.
Here are my 'answers'
1. How long have you been working in your profession? About 15 years
2. Where do you live? Colorado
3. What do you like to do outside of work? Hike, climb, paddle, mountain bike
4. What is your job title? Project Architect
5. When and why did you choose your career path? I discovered my interested in architecture through a high school drafting class.
6. What is the name of your company or employer? Not going to say.
7. Describe your primary duties and skills. The short answer, I design buildings then make sure they are built per the drawings.
8. Describe your physical work environment. A typical open office cubical, but with nice picture on the walls.
9. What is your favorite part of your job? Conceptual design.
10. What is your salary? (You don't need this if you're uncomfortable with it) Not going to answer publicly
11. Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your degree? North Dakota State University, Bachelor’s of Architecture
12. Describe in detail three of the courses that you took that are closely related to your current career. (if you want, you dont need to go too in depth. i can make it up) Don’t make this up. Ask actual universities what their programs contain. Each program is different.
13. Describe the two courses that you considered most challenging. Structural Engineering and Professional Writing.
14. What resources did your school have available to help you get through the most difficult courses? [Cite your sources] Your professors and other students.
15. Regarding the two most challenging courses, how did you persevere? I worked really damn hard.
16. From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees? North Dakota State University
17. What was the title or titles of the degree(s)? Bachelor’s of Architecture.
18. What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to receive those licenses? I am a licensed architect. I was required to complete an internship via NCARB then took seven separate exams.
19. How would your clients and coworkers describe you? Humorous, dedicated, creative.
20. What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career? That my buildings overall make the built environment a better place for people to inhabit.
21. Why should a high school student consider a career in your field? What important contributions could they make? That’s up to you as a student to figure out. Talk in person with an architect. Maybe job shadow someone.
I just put something on my calendar for 2022.
We live in the future.
Serious questions...
Note this wouldn't stop someone who really has a reason to necropost from posting. It would just make it harder / more deliberate.
necroposting is one of the only way to organically dig up classics discussions tho.
I don't think so. The people who seem to be doing this are doing it on purpose or they are very new to the forum. The coffee one got kicked back up from someone named Kenneth31? First post/comment ever on Archinect forum
Yeah, I know. It's a tough balancing act because I do enjoy the classics getting dug up. But for every coffee necropost, there are like 50 that are completely useless where the OP was looking for some type of help 5 years ago, and the necropost is well, not really necessary. This literally happened about ten minutes after I posted my questions above. If Ben is still looking at saving costs on his hillside lot, it would have been better to build anything 5 years ago just from a simple cost escalation standpoint.
I saw that one and almost wrote an identical response.
Seems like a timestamp from the last post written should live right next to the title, in the same bold font. This way people might see how old it is, maybe?
Another, more modern, forum I also use doesn’t allow new members (les than something like 100 posts) to post links without moderator approval. That has really helped their problem with spam bot posts which seem to be the vast majority of necroposts.
ARCHINECT - are you listening?
Interestingly enough, archinect moderator approval is required to make your first thread, but not for your first comment. So while we don't get a bunch of spam threads, we do get a lot of spam necroposts. Some mornings I will flag 4 or 5 hoping the moderators get to them before someone else makes a comment in the thread keeping it on the first page. Maybe the solution is to just have the moderators approve first threads and comments.
Archinect mod approval is required for your first thread? I had no idea. Really?
Yep
maybe we should form a union
Revolucion! I don't go on the auto forums any longer, but all of those required approval for pretty much any first-time action.
Donna, I found it out when I switched from Everyday Intern to Everyday Architect. Ironically, I had already posted to my archinect blog under the new name, but your first thread gets moderated. I made a comment about it here on Aug 1.
I went on a spam flagging spree this morning. Assuming someone at Archinect is paid to review every comment I flagged before it get's removed ... wouldn't it be quicker, easier, and more effective at stopping spam to simply pay someone to review each first time comment before it goes live? If not, can I get some store credit to Archinect Outpost for flagging the spam? Maybe promote this as an incentive for others to start flagging the spam too?
Embarrassments of being an Old: I had to do a cabinet detail change in Revit. It took me, no lie, over an hour and multiple questions to the Youth who is managing the BIM. In CAD I could have made the change in 10-15 minutes. I'm embarrassed, in two ways:
1. I feel like the Youth looks at me and sees a doddering old know-nothing and
2. When I was the Youth in this scenario, I definitely looked at the Olds and thought to myself "doddering old know-nothings"!!
X4 time when you don't know anything is not terrible.
I sympathize, Donna. On the flip slide, the Youth probably knows nothing about cabinets, casework, and construction. (Nor did you at that stage.)
Cue The Circle of Life...
just keep learning. i think the youths and the olds respect each other more when they see you're at least willing to try.
I met an older architect last week who still draws everything by hand. Sounds good to me. I can't keep up with everything and software too lately.
Architecture today is primarily about carving humanity out of a sea of parking.
Underrated comment.
...and replacing said parking with more parking... just slightly to the right.
Overrated comment.
Like this? https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/europe/king-richard-buried/index.html
in Archinect news, sandwiched in between articles about NYC seeking a floating swimming pool and 10 superlux bathrooms is an article about the massive avian die-off
maybe i can get a commission to design a bird cemetery or even better a museum of extinct birds? WTF are the priorities here?
I propose the museum of extinct birds to be a massive glass tower so people can witness it first hand.
dude.
axonapoplectic, that's an excellent comment.
the priorities, well being an architect is an oxymoron. if you participate in architecture you are destroying the environment with every move. how much embodied energy in that bamboo flooring (but it's cheap) LEED paperwork is at least 2 trees, bruh.
intro to Cradle to Cradle, the German (not the guy who wrote the book, some fancy American) says some shit like, hey we felt stupid just standing around holding hands in front of some corporate facility, what could we change? nothing. He's German, he's rational.
So good job kids, taking a day off of work and just being morons yelling shit. No one cares, really. Put your grievances on the internet and we'll go back to developing some badass petroleum products and running adds, like - holy shit, Shell likes solar panels?
so read the rest of the book (Cradle to Cralde) that is recylced, like cradle to cradle, burh.
The Secret:
Take your dumb social media thinking and spin it towards money. Make money people want to "like" and all that other moronic internet behavior. Make people who have the funds feel guilt, fund the natural, and somehow feel like it's old school Catholicism...buy your way into heavin. Get these people with money to donate to your cause on guilt, pre mardi-gras guilt, get these people who have made their profit off of our environment to loose all their funds to YOU! you, we, none of us owe people anything who don't care about the rest of us?!??!
fuck them, peeps.
being tiefs is good! (that's thief in an Irish accent, remember the Irish have always been on the right side of history). TIEFS.
I give myself up, you old schoolers know who I am... I love you!
Who is the editor here? they are genius (see the headlines here...)
tanks
- Happy
Happy birthday!
thank you! Google had candles on the letters today...for muah?
and the editors at Archinect are doing a great job.
What are the editors doing a good job with?
they pay attention.
professional opinion:
just downed a glug of Jameson without me wife watching...is that a good character? a secretly drunker than though and smart than thou Peter Eisenman Derrida Expert?
(short version , Derrida thought Eisenman was trying too hard).
thoughts?
eisenman sucked at being an architect and derrida was not an architect.
that was a Jeffrey Kipnis Separatix reference and a Chora L works reference. it takes at least three (3) shots of Jameson to understand that.
in case you're interested.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/p...
I'm thinking character could be that old drunk guy in the bar rattling off architecture theory, getting under your skin like it was a political/religious conversation?
i would never drink irish whiskey. tschumi is cool.
swiss whiskey? are you crazy? does such a thing exist? ...hold hold on scene from Just Shoot me! (Tschumi!)
'merican futball as per Bernard
whiskey comes from kentucky. Whisky comes from scotland.
none of this is whiskey? https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/drinks/g17804667/best-irish-whiskey/
Those are not included as acceptable alternates in the spec and can be safely replaced with real whiskey. Props to Japanese though. Some of their attempts at whiskey are acceptable substitutes.
acceptable...i had to get my back right tooth capped drinking too much Japanese Whiskey. Japanese do everything better because they want to.
https://drizly.com/liquor/whiskey/scotch-whisky/aberlour-abunadh/p9705
curt, the irish don't make whiskey? (thank you beta)
they try happy. Bless their hearts.
bless their hearts....that's insult. dude how different are the scots form the irish? whiskey is a process and the Japanese did it better than everyone...I mean I love Macallen, but I'll drink Irish Whiskey! then what is Jameson?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yLa8rirQMI
yes, but you wouldn't be here with out the Irish
Stephen the Irishman was cool, but he couldn't make whiskey for shit. Good on him for defending scotch whisky though.
you got me bruh....
It speaks volumes about the value of that "architectural" folly that they're choosing it as the backdrop in front of which to interview this perpetual stain on the world's y-fronts.
I usually use bread, cake, and pancakes as my examples, but why not cookies?
yes!
I think I might take a career break, it's been pretty difficult lately and I just don't feel mentally well enough to do this nonsense anymore. The partner has asked me to quit and do something I enjoy cause she knows how it's draining the life out of me.
Has anyone taken a career break?
every day in a sense. do it, you need it. nothing good comes out of fighting yourself.
Nope. Could never afford to. It is a fantasy though... Just walk away and flip cars.
Yes. I left and had another career for 7 years then came back to architecture. It was like a nice long nap.
Several times. Once as an apprentice to a Japanese master builder, 3 years that changed the way I look at everything. I,
I’m on a break now, 3 years since the last project.
This sounds like a good independent post. How long. How old were you How did you do it (financially) and what was it like coming back to the h
The work force. No trust funders invited for commenting though. They tend to have a very know it all Zheng attitude that lacks any grounding in real world experience.
I took an involuntary break when I graduated in 09 and did actual work building actual things with my own two hands. It was so incredibly invigorating. I miss it.
I was in my 30’s, it was a paid apprenticeship, barely enough to survive on. Architecture was always feast or famine for me, usually famine. I’ve done a lot of different things. Currently making art, which is also feast or famine. LOL
I took a few sick days this week. A lot of it ended up being working from home, but I got a couple naps in and got to spend time with the dogs.
Not precisely a "career" break since I never looked at my life as some kind of competition to get ahead (that's a career, right?) but I did my first 10 years as an architect building stuff, classrooms, laboratories, offices , etc for my university, the next 10 years were a mixed bag of "urban design" and " community planning" for 2 large firms, and the last 10 years I've been designing and building houses away from cities and suburbs.
I’m waiting for my car to be fixed and the waiting room is showing daytime TV. Whenever I see this shit I feel like I understand why this country (the US) is so conflicted and combative. Every show and commercial is blatant fear-mongering: your car might get stolen! Your house might get broken into! A semi may mow down your loved ones on the highway! Your heart is about to blow out! Asbestos!
It might benefit us all if legal marijuana moves much more quickly.
I know what you mean. It's been at least ten years since I've had network TV, and I haven't even had a television for the last six years. (We do stream content on a laptop--we're not totally weird...) When I'm somewhere that has a TV blaring non-stop I can't believe other people put up with it.
Cannabis is legal in my state but it doesn't seem to help the situation, unfortunately. (Aside from making it more fun to just stay home.)
I've been reading Seneca's "Letters from a Stoic" it has a good deal to say about this topic.
I miss Days Of Our Lives, and Another World.
every time i visit my parents i've got to beg them to shut the damn tv off or i'm off to stay in a hotel. why such nice people tolerate the constant projection of misery and fear into their daily life is incomprehensible to me. some people just need noise despite going to extraordinary lengths to live where there isn't any.
My folk’s tv just plays house reno or signing competition shows on repeat... but then again, we’re not subject to the same media Donna references. My tv serves as a vehicle for hockey and Disney movies.
I haven't watched TV in 10 years. Best 10 years of my life.
There is a universal remote called TV B Gone that turns off all tvs. Great for visits to places where tvs are on all the time. Also fun watching staff try to figure out the problem.
Whew. Slowing down at the office yet we're advertising for an experienced PA and interior designer. We just hired two interns as well. Sure hope we get that project. . . .
we're speeding up... and can't fill seats with people who can keep this ship afloat.
Honest question - is the office looking to increase compensation to get those people needed in seats? (Not directly looking, just always curious to observe the market back home ...)
Bench, the quick answer is no... The real answer is, I've got no fucking clue but I'm hoping some of this will be cleared up soon. The (commercial) market here is strange. There is far too much activity and zero workforce (both consultant and labour)... but we're not seeing any influx of applications outside of the typical no experience student variety. We "poached" a middle-age arch (with PA experience, apparently) some time ago and I almost lost it trying to coordinate and red-line their work recently. eugh.
Yeah but you work in Canada so you're all a little wonky, at least according to the Rick Moranis movie.
Chad, yeah, things are different here (for the better) and compensation levels just don't compare well to the US.
Being from northern Minnesota I'm basically a Canadian cousin. I can relate.
^I'd invite you to (october) thanksgiving... just leave your imperial system at the border.
I'll try my best. No promises though.
Here you go
Brewery fo'sure. There is like one new craft brewery in my city everyweek.
Canadian craft beers > American craft beers
Thats great you can make 8 different IPA's, but they all taste like straight saw dust. Meanwhile Canadian breweries are actually experimenting with way more interesting flavour profiles. Personal favourites are the red rye beers, especially in the O-valley.
Rye beers are awesome.
Take off eh!
Classic. I spent way too many hours watching that movie with my friends in HS. I probably have the VHS floating around in a box somewhere.
Bench, I don't think you have anything to back that claim up other than your own personal bias.
Pete, I second Bench's assertion on the craft beer differences. Come at me bro.
It's all about Czech and German beers, fight me.
^booooooring. At least throw some Belgians in there if you want a chance.
Just around my apartment we have breweries dedicated to sours, belgians, lagers, etc. Even breweries that specialize in ales generally have between 3 and 12 beers that aren't IPAs. I mean, I appreciate the dick waggling that you seem to be going for here, and it's refreshing to see that the idiotic need to posture and preen extends above the 49th parallel, but Bench's post was long on bullshit and opinion and short on actual facts.
^ My favorite local brewery puts out one new brew every Thursday and everyone of them unique and likely never to be redone. I'm a fan of NEIPA tho... not sure I've ever had a bad one of those.
I think the over-hoppy hipster craft brew jive has died down here. Sours and %10+ stouts are increasing in popularity.
That's a universal trend. The only thing as likely as a trend is the inevitable backlash to the trend. Gotta love how "individuality" ends up breeding conformity.
Funny story from school: One of my classmates worked at a craft brewery. One day a professor who was disappointed in all of our work was on a tirade and asked, "What are you spending your time on that is so much more important than your assignments?!?!" Cue quiet voice from the back of the room, "I make beer." Professor was literally rendered speechless for the next 10 seconds or so - WIN!
Had a professor that was actively practicing in another town while teaching. Prof was a bit of egomaniac and a douche. He taught a detailing class where we would get little detailing projects as if he where the principal and we where interns at a firm. One day he was laying into us about how poorly we did as a class on an assignment and how we must not be doing the work, and what the hell have you all been doing. One kid said 'Fixing your mistakes'. Said kid was working in a firm that had been hired to do a renovation of on of the prof's projects. Never heard a prof swear like that.
I'd say the average Canadian craft brewery is probably better than the average American craft brewery, but only because the American market is oversaturated with mediocre homebrewers turned pro and entrepreneurial trend-chasers trying to cash in on the craze. Could be I'm just not seeing it because they don't export, but I'm not seeing that oversaturation from Canada & I think it's because the market just isn't as huge.
I'd argue the best American brewers are better than the best Canadian. Not that Canada (& specifically, Quebec) isn't turning out some top-notch beers.
That said, as a proud Oregonian give me hops or give me death.
What's the best IPA in Oregon (in your opinion)?
Tough choice, but lately Breakside's Wanderlust IPA has been doin it for me. Really any IPA from Breakside is likely to knock your socks off.
I'm also partial to Fort George's Magnanimous IPA but it's only available for a couple of months (releasing soon!)
tduds, you need to reactivate that untappd account. Also, wedding? Good? Recovered?
Surly Darkness byatches! IPAs are for nunces.
On the first couple days of fall I am reacquainting myself with porters and stouts - my go-to cold weather beers.
tduds, i think the Canadian market is approaching peak saturation pretty soon. Apparently my own little hometown suburb of a mid-major city has just opened its own microbrewery as well, in a stripmall no less - never thought that would happen. There are about a dozen within a 30-minute drive further away from the city as well, not to mention a slew that have opened in the city itself.
And to the overly serious individuals ... lighten up. Its beer.
The Quebec craft market was saturated long before Ontario had it's first string of breweries. Chalk that up to the long list of provincial regulations and mega conglomerate Beer Store. Less gov regulations now, but there are still enough hurdles to keep things local. Sucks that I can't get many craft brews from the north or other provinces, but it leaves us with decent local craft brews with healthy competition. Walk into a quebec beer store (QC has few distribution laws) and you'll see 800 different breweries with almost identical products. Most are shit if you don't know what to look for.
I would try them all if I had time to.
tintt, judging by some of the depanneur's i have been to for beer runs, it appears there are people who do have the time, and do try them all ... :)
I've tried my fair share of those random QC brews... and my untappd record will back-me up on that one. Tintt has her share of those too I imagine.
I'm always bummed about how many quality local brews decide to go mass market. They have every right and I am not trying to stifle that, but I love finding quality local brews that I just can't find where I live. It's part of why I like to travel. Seeing the beers from the Northeastern US in California kinda lessens their specialness.
NS: Wedding was great. Weather almost was bad but miraculously held off. Honeymoon was magical. I'm "recovered" in that I'm relaxed and re-energized, but still adjusting back into the workday life. Might post some things in here or elsewhere about the past month.
Well that month went by fast.
Happy to be home, though. How are all my favorite internet time-wasters?
I'm doing marketing research, not wasting time!
That's a vicious rumor that's only partially true.
Only partially . . . .
I don't really know what jla is going on about with his Batman thread, but there is something wrong with that kid.
Thank doG for the ignore button.
Agreed.
this
Those two ^ are really the only Batman and Robin I acknowledge. Although I've enjoyed bits of Gotham - Jada Pinkett Smith and Robin Taylor are both amazing in it, as are the sets/production design. I'm with Sneaky Pete - that thread is lovely when the Ignore feature is engaged!
Last week, I went to a screening of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie with a live orchestra. Not only was the music fantastic, but that film is so much fun. I'd forgotten how great Jack Nicholson is as the Joker.
Best Jack Nicholson film: Goin South (1978). Supporting cast: Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, and Danny DeVito. One of my all-time favorites.
What happened to the "Interesting Information" thread on project management from earlier today?
was nuked. started by a new type of bot that copy/pasted an earlier Donna comment as the start of a discussion.
And so starts The Rise of the Machines...
I'm sure the machines can't do worse than people
Except that the bot post is gone, and we're still here.
My favorite new (to me) joke, seems appropriate here:
A robot walks into a bar. The bartender says, "we don't serve your kind here." The robot responds, "you will...".
Last week I literally said out loud that I was shocked I'd never ripped my pants out at a job site. Whelp, that's no longer the case.
Don't keep us in suspense! Was the rip in innocuous, embarrassing, or humiliating territory?
Didn't notice the actual occurance, only afterward. Was only somewhat noticeable unless bending so maybe no one else noticed either!!!
Happened to me last week. Caught my toe on the edge of a partial burred piece of rebar. Took a face plant onto the gravel base of the concrete slabs cold joint. Luckily my forearm saved my face. The knee of my pants did not survive.
I think we have the makings of a new thread... Someone did one years back about the pitfalls of doing field measuring and documentation for as-builts. It was hilarious, and educational!
I had a spectacular pants-ripping incident many years ago. I crouched to look at something while on a roof, and the outer seam up the leg of my pants decided to unsew itself in slow-motion, starting at the cuff and getting all the way up to the hip. The roof ladder was located in a closet in the exact center of a very occupied open-plan office building. I got quite the stares upon my exit from the closet.When I got back to the office I put it back together with binder clips.
Now, there's a story. More please!