‘I think your projects were interesting’
…I think you meant to say ‘mediocre’.
"It looks like a train crashed through Farnsworth House"
— Someone on an external panel, on one of our models.
“form doesn’t follow function, form follows panic.”
- First year tutor commenting on how we have too much time before crit
"Why does Adele look like a German Zaha Hadid in this picture?"
— Overheard in studio.
"It’s like a coffin with a snorkel"
— Tutor on student’s ventilation for his basement scheme.
"Architecture is a bitch."
— Archi construction tutor’s talking about jacuzzi logistical woes
"Type as ideational notion underlies spatial layout and form that is also expressed in structure and construction;"
—
From a bunch of lecture notes in which the lecturer went crazy with a thesaurus.
‘Ideational notion’ - I mean. REALLY.
Overheard in DDL
While doing her Suzhou topography of the rocks,
Friend: Argh!!!!!! I feel like fucking the rocks
Me: Er.. Okay go ahead.
"I take my dome for a walk"
— overheard in studio - said by the next studio’s tutor.
"There’s a McDonald’s next to it so you can eat fast food and enjoy sustainability."
— From last week’s lecture on sustainability, presented without context.
"Those of you who also partake of coffee, excellent. It has kept me alive for the past 25 years."
— The tutor, on late-night stimulants.
"Everyday I go and visit my favourite buildings."
— The (ex-)tutor, on Google Maps’ Street View.
"I woke up on the wrong side of the table."
— Fellow archi student
