The end is near! The semester is almost over! Today is the last Monday! wooohoooo!
Wait.
Hold on...
I've five projects due this week. FIVE. And last week was Thanksgiving (aka, no work getting done). CRAP.
Let the end of the semester festivities begin; class, projects, coffee, no sleep. Let's get this party started!
Who's with me?
Monday, November 29, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
I Love Architecture....Even When It Doesn't Love Me Back
Insight from today's review:
Being in Architecture is like being in a bad relationship:
1.Demands all of your time
2. Doesn't let have friends
3. Takes all your money
4. Always tells you that you're wrong
5. Likes to beat you up and make you feel worthless
"I can't talk to you. I'm having a nervous breakdown."-Ashley
"We were a little behind on our plans. YOU kept changing our plan, actually." -Sarah to the prof, who didn't respond
"I'm glad we took this trip." -Betsy on going back to the same design she had 2 weeks ago
"Another question is: how do these stand up?" -Verdy
"In order to communicate, you have to step out of your own brain and into someone else's for a while" -Lena on why professors never know whats going on
"Architecture: What a great fucking concept." -Liz
And thats what review is like kids. One piece of advice for anyone out there looking to study architecture: If you like to sleep, you won't like architecture.
-Sam
Being in Architecture is like being in a bad relationship:
1.Demands all of your time
2. Doesn't let have friends
3. Takes all your money
4. Always tells you that you're wrong
5. Likes to beat you up and make you feel worthless
"I can't talk to you. I'm having a nervous breakdown."-Ashley
"We were a little behind on our plans. YOU kept changing our plan, actually." -Sarah to the prof, who didn't respond
"I'm glad we took this trip." -Betsy on going back to the same design she had 2 weeks ago
"Another question is: how do these stand up?" -Verdy
"In order to communicate, you have to step out of your own brain and into someone else's for a while" -Lena on why professors never know whats going on
"Architecture: What a great fucking concept." -Liz
And thats what review is like kids. One piece of advice for anyone out there looking to study architecture: If you like to sleep, you won't like architecture.
-Sam
Prelim Review Day
Review days are a funny thing.
You're stressed out and worried about what your professor is going to say, how much they're going to hate your review, and how long it is going to take them to break the model you slaved over for days.
Yet at the same time, you've reached this point of, "I just don't care anymore." Yep, I admit it, I just don't care.
This is especially the case with Friday reviews. Seriously, you want us to sit here until 6PM on Friday? Really? Who's bright (or much more so, dim in terms of the person who thought it up) idea was this?
Nope, I've checked out. I'm ready for my Saturday and my first day in like, a month, that I'm going to be able to sleep in.
I miss having a professor who knows how to help us further our design rather than make us stall to where progress is impossible. [insert gigantic sigh]
ANYWAYS. Back to the idea of a review.
Yes, we sit hear, listen to our classmates talk about their projects to the professor[s], when you already know everything they're saying, because, after all, you do live with your studio mates. You see them more than your actual roommates or family, how could you not know about their projects? Yep, so everyone sits there, tired, irritated, and wanting to go home.
The definition of productivity, right?
-Joy
You're stressed out and worried about what your professor is going to say, how much they're going to hate your review, and how long it is going to take them to break the model you slaved over for days.
Yet at the same time, you've reached this point of, "I just don't care anymore." Yep, I admit it, I just don't care.
This is especially the case with Friday reviews. Seriously, you want us to sit here until 6PM on Friday? Really? Who's bright (or much more so, dim in terms of the person who thought it up) idea was this?
Nope, I've checked out. I'm ready for my Saturday and my first day in like, a month, that I'm going to be able to sleep in.
I miss having a professor who knows how to help us further our design rather than make us stall to where progress is impossible. [insert gigantic sigh]
ANYWAYS. Back to the idea of a review.
Yes, we sit hear, listen to our classmates talk about their projects to the professor[s], when you already know everything they're saying, because, after all, you do live with your studio mates. You see them more than your actual roommates or family, how could you not know about their projects? Yep, so everyone sits there, tired, irritated, and wanting to go home.
The definition of productivity, right?
-Joy
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
George Hughes
"You might as well call transverse sections Verderber sections...It sounds like a really cool
drawing."
-Sam
drawing."
-Sam
Sunday, November 7, 2010
I. Want. This.
Let's be honest, who doesn't like a good, old fashioned swing?
But this, THIS makes swinging hip, elegant, mature.
Seriously, I could do this with a wine glass in my hand and look totally happenin'.
(http://www.homedesignfind.com/gardening-outdoor/amazonas-globo-swing-seat/)
*SIGH* Maybe one day when I'm a rich and famous architect, I can add to the population of my yard with this little treasure.
-Joy
But this, THIS makes swinging hip, elegant, mature.
Seriously, I could do this with a wine glass in my hand and look totally happenin'.
(http://www.homedesignfind.com/gardening-outdoor/amazonas-globo-swing-seat/)
*SIGH* Maybe one day when I'm a rich and famous architect, I can add to the population of my yard with this little treasure.
-Joy
Friday, November 5, 2010
Quotes That Mean Much More Than They Should:
"All you have to do is just be perfect. It's not that hard" -George Hughes (who doesn't actually exist)
"If I see clowns or barricudas, ya blew it" -Prof. Silance
"We've a lot of evil spirits in Christianity. I've got to keep them at bay with a pagan device" -Prof. Bruhns on Gargoyles
"Keep those eyebrows raised" -Prof. Parsons
"It feels like it wants to be sewn" -Bo
"I don't like that nickname. I don't want to be called that." -Verdy
"What nickname?" -studiokid
"I don't like that!"-Verdy
Ariel trips over chair. "Oh, I'm sorry! Excuse me!"
"You know how we do" -random middleschooler
"BUT THERE'S SO MUCH WORK TO DO!" -random cry from the sophomore studio
"That's why they filled in Lake Hartwell, because of the zombie apocalypse" -P.L.
"I'm bleeding! I GOT BLOOD ON MY PROJECT!!!!" -pretty much everyone in studio.
-Ashley
"If I see clowns or barricudas, ya blew it" -Prof. Silance
"We've a lot of evil spirits in Christianity. I've got to keep them at bay with a pagan device" -Prof. Bruhns on Gargoyles
"Keep those eyebrows raised" -Prof. Parsons
"It feels like it wants to be sewn" -Bo
"I don't like that nickname. I don't want to be called that." -Verdy
"What nickname?" -studiokid
"I don't like that!"-Verdy
Ariel trips over chair. "Oh, I'm sorry! Excuse me!"
"You know how we do" -random middleschooler
"BUT THERE'S SO MUCH WORK TO DO!" -random cry from the sophomore studio
"That's why they filled in Lake Hartwell, because of the zombie apocalypse" -P.L.
"I'm bleeding! I GOT BLOOD ON MY PROJECT!!!!" -pretty much everyone in studio.
-Ashley
Studio Makes You Crazy
Studio makes you crazy. No one will believe this statement until they experience sitting in studio for four hours a day with a professor who walks in and out randomly. Everyone is studio is weirdly close to each other because we bond in the craziness. You also spend a lot of time discussing your future, which never looks very bright. Mostly, you prepare to live in a cardboard box beside the freeway.
-Sam
-Sam
Eventually you reach this point
There's a particular point in a project that you reach, where, you feel like you're far enough ahead and so you don't do any work.
Don't fall into this architectural demon trap. No matter how far ahead you are on a project, you won't be finished early. Or even most likely on time. One of several things may happen:
1. Your professor will suddenly decide he hates your project two days before it is due and make you change it all (despite the fact that everything you'd done up to this point was exactly what he told you to do.)
2. All of the architecture supply stores within a 45 minute radius will be out of the material you need for your model.
3. Your computer will crash. (seriously, if you haven't learned that your computer will crash repeatedly during your architecture education, you will. Or if it has never happened to you, tell me your secret. PLEASE.)
4. The plotter/laser cutter/CNC router/ whatever other massive, over priced machinery you require for your final presentation will break upon your turn to use it. It will also be mysteriously fixed upon completing your project.
5. Someone in your family (possibly you) will go to the emergency room the night before your project is due.
So, I warn you now, so long as you are in architecture school...
NEVER, EVER, EVER THINK YOU ARE AHEAD DURING A PROJECT AND DECIDE TO TAKE A BREAK.
It will backfire.
- - Joy
Don't fall into this architectural demon trap. No matter how far ahead you are on a project, you won't be finished early. Or even most likely on time. One of several things may happen:
1. Your professor will suddenly decide he hates your project two days before it is due and make you change it all (despite the fact that everything you'd done up to this point was exactly what he told you to do.)
2. All of the architecture supply stores within a 45 minute radius will be out of the material you need for your model.
3. Your computer will crash. (seriously, if you haven't learned that your computer will crash repeatedly during your architecture education, you will. Or if it has never happened to you, tell me your secret. PLEASE.)
4. The plotter/laser cutter/CNC router/ whatever other massive, over priced machinery you require for your final presentation will break upon your turn to use it. It will also be mysteriously fixed upon completing your project.
5. Someone in your family (possibly you) will go to the emergency room the night before your project is due.
So, I warn you now, so long as you are in architecture school...
NEVER, EVER, EVER THINK YOU ARE AHEAD DURING A PROJECT AND DECIDE TO TAKE A BREAK.
It will backfire.
- - Joy
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I Guess This Is a Prime Example...
...Of how much studio consumes your time.
We haven't updated since August. Oops. But, now it is time to let the festivities to begin!
I'm going to post this as a little FYI for those possibly want to be future architects out there. Know what you're getting into.
We recently had our annual (as if you aren't stressed out enough) IDP meeting. What's IDP? Intern Development Program. One of those beautiful things developed to help architects become better architects. Great, right?
Well, see, here's the quick review, the SparkNotes, the 4-1-1 if you will.
To become an architect you need:
-A degree from an accredited program (Basically, a M.Arch.)
-IDP Credits, a total of 5600 hours (~3 years) which, on average, takes 4.5 years to finish. Not to mention it can't just be 5600 hours in a firm, oh no, it has to be in specific areas. Documented. And signed off on. (Good luck, in this economy.) But alas, you architecture newcomers are at an advantage over us old folks on this one! You can now start getting IDP credit immediately after high school, where as we had to wait until the end of our junior year in college. Le sigh.
-Pass the exam. All 7 sections of the exam. Over a 5 year period. ($210 each)
(For more info, visit www.ncarb.com ... if you dare.)
Simple, right?
--Joy
We haven't updated since August. Oops. But, now it is time to let the festivities to begin!
I'm going to post this as a little FYI for those possibly want to be future architects out there. Know what you're getting into.
We recently had our annual (as if you aren't stressed out enough) IDP meeting. What's IDP? Intern Development Program. One of those beautiful things developed to help architects become better architects. Great, right?
Well, see, here's the quick review, the SparkNotes, the 4-1-1 if you will.
To become an architect you need:
-A degree from an accredited program (Basically, a M.Arch.)
-IDP Credits, a total of 5600 hours (~3 years) which, on average, takes 4.5 years to finish. Not to mention it can't just be 5600 hours in a firm, oh no, it has to be in specific areas. Documented. And signed off on. (Good luck, in this economy.) But alas, you architecture newcomers are at an advantage over us old folks on this one! You can now start getting IDP credit immediately after high school, where as we had to wait until the end of our junior year in college. Le sigh.
-Pass the exam. All 7 sections of the exam. Over a 5 year period. ($210 each)
(For more info, visit www.ncarb.com ... if you dare.)
Simple, right?
--Joy
Monday, August 23, 2010
What You Need to have for Studio
The following is a list of things you should have before you start studio in architecture:
1. Caffeine
2. An Exacto knife
3. Glue-lots of different kinds
4. Bass wood
5. Chipboard-a compressed board similar to cardboard
6. Colored pencils
7. Drawing pencils
8. A sketchbook
9. A book similar to Designing with Models by Criss B. Mills to help you begin modeling
10. Patience
11. Music to listen to
12. A credit card (or something else) you can use to order supplies online
13. A friend with a car to drive you to buy supplies
14. Lots of time
15. Tape
16. A desire to spend a lot of time with the people in your studio
17. An ability to say "NO" to friends who ask you to hang out on the weekends
Also, please realize that you will most likely be assigned a small project on your first day of studio to get you used to working. Get into a routine of getting your work done. Don't worry...it gets much harder after that first project.
--Sam
1. Caffeine
2. An Exacto knife
3. Glue-lots of different kinds
4. Bass wood
5. Chipboard-a compressed board similar to cardboard
6. Colored pencils
7. Drawing pencils
8. A sketchbook
9. A book similar to Designing with Models by Criss B. Mills to help you begin modeling
10. Patience
11. Music to listen to
12. A credit card (or something else) you can use to order supplies online
13. A friend with a car to drive you to buy supplies
14. Lots of time
15. Tape
16. A desire to spend a lot of time with the people in your studio
17. An ability to say "NO" to friends who ask you to hang out on the weekends
Also, please realize that you will most likely be assigned a small project on your first day of studio to get you used to working. Get into a routine of getting your work done. Don't worry...it gets much harder after that first project.
--Sam
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