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Permalink Reply by ALEX P on May 19, 2012 at 6:58am

Looks like at least some people care about what I do. 

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Permalink Reply by Jason T. Radice on May 19, 2012 at 11:00am

was that supposed to be a link to an article, or just the site?

 

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Permalink Reply by nca777 on May 19, 2012 at 4:13pm

Just the site...I wander over there every once in a while, always vowing never to revisit. The e-gos are out of control, kind of funny really.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas J. Johnson on May 19, 2012 at 9:42pm

Ha!

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Permalink Reply by Jason T. Radice on May 20, 2012 at 6:53pm

It is very entertaining, especially coming from that world. i think LAs could learn something from them though. We need a bit mor4 agressive attitude and unabashed egotistical bantering. It would be good for the profession. We are too nice.

 

BTW. Went to the the AIA national convention this week. Never before have so many bowties, sportcoats and ratty jeans, and weird-ass glasses have been assembled in one spot outside of Germany.

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Permalink Reply by Roland Beinert on May 21, 2012 at 11:58am

Not sure we really need more egotism in our profession, but the other thing you see plenty of in architecture that we could use more of is design nerdiness. By nerdiness I don't mean the tendency to wear bow ties and weird glasses or any of the negative stereotypes associated with word "nerd". I mean a passion for all forms of design,a love of knowledge and theory, and a desire to share that knowledge and theory with others. I met plenty of people like this when I took a couple of courses in the architecture dept. at U of I. Obviously, you run into more design nerds on a college campus, but I met some when I was working as well. They are usually very likable people, with whom you can have really interesting conversations. They're also the sort of person who comes up with ideas like Buckminster Fuller blanket forts.

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Permalink Reply by ida on May 24, 2012 at 11:51pm

I like architects and their nerdiness, though they can be condescending at times, but it comes from their passion in design. I hate it when LA's look down on people like them like we are somehow better.

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Permalink Reply by nca777 on May 25, 2012 at 8:09pm

LA's looking down on architects? Where do you work? Just kidding...

Try this experiment when youre bored: Go to archinect, register a user name, and post something (anything) landscape related and see what kind of responses you get. The best is if you tell them you do planning. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Jason T. Radice on May 25, 2012 at 9:47pm

If you really want to troll, start talking about how modernism was a farce, and that all works of 60's and 70's brutalism should be summarily demolished.

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Permalink Reply by Roland Beinert on May 26, 2012 at 1:42pm

I wouldn't have to pretend to believe that.

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Permalink Reply by Roland Beinert on May 20, 2012 at 5:16pm

I wonder how many of them are building a Buckminster Fuller blanket fort right now.

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Permalink Reply by nca777 on May 20, 2012 at 6:29pm

haha..good one.

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