December 2011
19 posts
The Indicator: 101 Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School
1] Even if your boss is your friend he may have to axe you to save his business.
2] Read the book, On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt. Carry it with you. It’s pocket-sized.
3] Do not drink at work and especially do not get toasted around your colleagues under any circumstances.
4] No matter how highly you may think of yourself you may still be a minion in the eyes of others who hold more power than you.
5] Once you leave architecture school not everybody cares about architecture or wants to talk about it.
6] All eating habits and diets acquired during school should be jettisoned.
7] The hygiene habits you kept in architecture school are inappropriate for real life; bathe regularly and change your underwear.
8] The rush and exhilaration you experience in studio may be inversely proportional to how much you will enjoy working for a firm.
9] It’s architecture, not medicine. You can take a break and no one will die.
10] Significant others are more important than architecture; they are the ones who will pull you through in the end. See 49.
My Dearest (TV Size)
Supercell
(Translated)
“There’s something important that you must protect now
But when you freeze in place helplessly—
When you lose your potential, the darkness eclipses you
And you’re about to be swallowed by despair—
Because I’ll become the light that illuminates you
Not even the king of this world can put me out
So, everything that makes me whole
Now I’ll offer it to you
I’m Yours”
Opening song stuck in my head.
Final Review: 12-02-11
Yay! So here are photos of my final review pin-up of my project with John Blood & Elizabeth Danze Design III studio (: What a wonderful semester it has been!
The Branch Library Project
(The presentation pin-up)
(My 1/8th scaled model next to the section drawing)
(Opening up my model: Western/larger half showing the western entrance)
(Opening up my model: The eastern/smaller half showing the light shaft & stairs moment)
(Final drawings, exterior & interior hybrid perspectives, section, and model)
Hopefully I can get to actually photographing them nicely tomorrow morning. These were just quick snapshots.
