Edward Cullen’s has a philosophical view? Are you kidding me, I thought his only reason for living is to sparkle - oh wait it’s Edward Cullinan.
…and I thought this was a troll question meant for my other fandom tumblrblog.
Classic starving architect HAHAHA…look closely
Submitted by http://cheskabug.tumblr.com/ , check this blog out!
Sorry, it’s been a bit of a ‘slow news’ period because our uni term is over and there isn’t school related content to be posted. Unless you’d like to see some of my own work for year 2, I could post them, but it’s a bit shabby (and shameless) to post here.
Meanwhile, have a poster of an upcoming exhibition that you might like to attend if you’re in Singapore.
pieties asked: Hey! Do you guys know any good books for Architectural details, particularly steel and concrete?
mylifeasloe asked: I'm a junior in high school and I'm very interested in architecture. What books do you suggest that I invest in?
Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand by Simon Unwin and Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor. Check out our books tag here!
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth
has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport".
Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a
degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special
effort. This ugliness arises because airports ane full of
people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that
their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the
only known exception to this otherwise infallible rule), and
architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.
They have sought to highlight the tiredness and crossness
motif with brutal shapes and nerve jangling colours, to make
effortless the business of separating the traveller for ever
from his or her luggage or loved ones, to confuse the traveller
with arrows that appear to point at the windows, distant tie
racks, or the current position of Ursa Minor in the night sky,
and wherever possible to expose the plumbing on the grounds
that it is functional, and conceal the location of the
departure gates, presumably on the grounds that they are not.
Douglas Adams sheds some light on airports and architects.
Because I don’t feel like working on my form z for the half hour i have before studio…
Getting a new project:
“Brainstorming” (aka procrastinating):
Brilliant idea hits:
Realize you only have a week until your review:
Someone touches the model you have been working on for 48 hours straight:
In class after an all-nigher:
Your professor looking at your work:
Finally reaching your bed again:
…you visit the Guggenheim Bilbao and take a thousand photos from every possible angle, from both sides of the road and river and both bridges.
Hello from Bilbao by the way!
fishyyyyyyy asked: Hi there, how do you manage to survive the hard years of studying archi if it seems so very tough as claimed by everyone on the net? And, are job prospects for archi really not as bright as for other courses? Sorry I'm asking so much, but I'm worried about what would happen in the future if I take on this course. Thanks!
I think survival tactics are different for everyone. There are those who love architecture to bits and can take every crazy thing the school throws at them, and then there are those who look forward to becoming an architect. For the rest of us, we make fun of ourselves and our crazy lives, and try to hang on! I guess the saying ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ might be relevant (albeit cliched) here.
About job prospects; I’m not the best person to comment on that. But hey, if financial returns is important to you in choosing your course, architecture is definitely not a good choice.
Feel free to drop more questions, we’re having our break from uni right now, so i’ll be answering stuff no matter how absurd!
Number of hours students study - The Washington Post
Architecture for the win…or loss.
Thanks for the link Justin
wahey! look at us coming in first!
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Submission by shadaud:
The life of an architecture student, come final submission, is similar to that of a woman in labour. However, instead of conjuring out a baby, they give birth to a hoard of A2 presentation boards and an army of models. Granted the time frame is shorter but the contraptions, mood swings, hormonal effects and stress are more or less the same. And rather than creating life, architecture students are probably responsible for global warming with the obscene amount of trees we’re killing.
C’est la vie.
-Submission from Sudeep Singh, India
If your personality was a typeface, which one would it be? Courier? Marina Script? Perpetua Titling Light? Find out by filling in this short test. Your therapist is ready.
I got architype van doesburg! Click on the photo to get yours.
Hola desde Barcelona! We’re on our second day of urban studies here in Spain, and we’ve been walking around waayyy too much. Here’s a mapping of a random stroll through the Eixample, which is an super-regulated extension of the old city of Barcelona by Ildefonso Cerdá.
Thanks again for the suggestions you all gave the other time. We’ve made pilgrimages to the Barcelona Pavilion and Sagrada Familia and a few other places besides. :D
See you guys again soon (as and when I have wifi, I guess).
