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Stella
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 Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject: Do you know what intrigues me alot? |
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| That other people out there are into architetcure as much as I am! |
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maxmoy
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| You mean you are skeptical about that? |
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Architorture
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| like what kind of other people? |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:19 pm Post subject: ". . .only connect. . ." |
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Stella -- For all our differences as human beings -- our separate experiences, our unique DNA, our inexplicable biases and preferences -- there continue to be so many things we can agree on. I like to think that this is the true miracle of our existence. And, for the sub-set of us that identify architecture as embodying our keenest interests and desires, we will find things within this discipline that we can and cannot agree upon. Is that what intrigues you? It should! Enjoy. . .
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Stella
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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No, nothing philisophical or silly. I just find it weird that others out there like architecture. I am often teased for liking architecture, people say to me "you have to go to school for 5 something years to design a house? I can do that on my own" that is funny to them, and nobody else can understand my love for decorated bricks.
So to me it is cool to see people here who actually like it like I do and spend time tyring to make sense of things. |
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eman
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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sometimes i cant imagine myself any other than working in architecture!
it's cool to find others sharing the same feeling !! i also feel that architects think in a very unique manner .. it reflects on to their lives .. it makes u see and sense things quite differently..
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i think alot of the general public has an interest in architecture, just it has to be presented to them... they don't tend to notice it unless it is shown to them more actively...
i think people get very interested in drawings and models and such just b/c they regard it as taking alot of skill to do those things and many say they could never do it...
i think there is an strong interest out there, just you have to find it or show people how architecture is influencial on their lives even though they may not realize it... |
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Stella
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I wish I had a real life friend who was an architect, I dunno how to get along wiht toher architects to be honest with you, do architects get along with eachother at all? Were all generally the same in the sense that we like architecture and we are artists. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Stella wrote: | I wish I had a real life friend who was an architect
do architects get along with each other at all? |
 all except 2 of my friends are architects. i stay with 2 of my batch mates and 1 junior. still keep goin to college whenever i get any spare time just to hang out with my juniors and teachers. its not easy to find a person who shares similiar passions and interests and i guess that ways i am lucky... 
| Architorture wrote: | | I think there is an strong interest out there |
personally i think there are very few people outside the architectural fraternity who are interested except purely for makin money...atleast thats what i have seen in India...dunno bout the states...
of course, i am not sayin that all architects are in it purely for the sake of architecture 
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maxmoy
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Stella,
All my best friends, I mean, closest, are not architects. They study philosophy; anthropology; western theories / culture, respectively. I still haven't found one other architecture student who shares my ideas, or at least my level of commitment to architecture.
But I think it is critical to surround yourself with people outside architecture. Otherwise you can't see the forest for the trees. In many ways, architecture is a response to metaphysics/society so only having people dedicated to "space" is kind of limiting when you want to design, or talk about architecture.
I do believe that architecture is just a tiny part in the progressive spectrum of an idea -, its a stage. It is also the discipline which takes longer to regenerate since you need a population already versed in such and such ideosincracy before they can accept a building. Probably the spark of evey movement is in theology/philosophy. Then come the arts, and then architecture. It intrigues me how the renaissance begins in art with Giotto but it takes 100 years more for Brunelleschi to build his dome.
Its all those things behind architecture that I love. Behind Architecture - BA - I could call my own office like that  |
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Stella
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah I agree, I guess it would be bad to put too much time into the same thing over and over (Fay Jones) |
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SDR
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject: Fay Jones |
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Stella -- Were you quoting Mr Jones, or was that a comment on his work? It's interesting to see how some architects evolve a lot, or make some major leap (or fall?) somewhere in their career, while others play within a smaller court. Too bad we lost Sam Mockbee so soon: his students' last work before his death was really going somewhere. The community chapel in Mason's Bend (2000) is just a gem -- maybe the excellent photographs help with that impression. It's in the Rural Studio book. . .
I think one does well to have friends in all fields -- an architect needs to know how people live and think in the real world. The Rural Studio practitioners get that in spades, I guess!
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| Architorture wrote: | | I think there is an strong interest out there |
personally i think there are very few people outside the architectural fraternity who are interested except purely for makin money...atleast thats what i have seen in India...dunno bout the states...
of course, i am not sayin that all architects are in it purely for the sake of architecture |
you don't have people going otu of their way to visit a particular building anywhere? i doubt that...
when people go to a place...that place often times is a building or has a building/s that is very closely associated with it...
people are interested in architecture, but don't necessarily realize it... sure there aren't a ton of people out there concerned with the various theoretical debates and whatnot...but there certainly is an interest in the end product produced by architects i think |
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