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| Bad Disciple 2007-01-27, 5:25 pm |
| ....about architectural studies. I've finished a lyceum school (until the age
of 18.) with architectural orientation in Belgium. I want to continue my
architectural studies further on. I have several questions. Every advice
is welcome. Thanks in advance.
1. Which are the superior architectural schools with best reputation,
in which countries in Europe or elsewhere?
2. Are the basic studies separated from mastering, with the possibility
to do mastering elsewhere, or not? Or is there such a structure of
the studies at all?
3. Are some architectural schools more art-oriented than others with
more technical/ building profile?
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| Marcia 2007-02-07, 9:25 pm |
| If you want to become an architect in England you must first have part
of your brain removed. In the last 10 years I have not had a drawing
that was correct. There seems to be a strange thing that happens to
the buildings;- they shrink so that the stuff you have to put inside
them doesn't fit.
Another couple of examples of total incompetence are a new police
headquarters where the multi story car park smashed the lights off the
top off the first vehicles to use it because the architect never
noticed police vans have big signs saying Police on them. At a
recently finished new hospital in Worcester where I took my disabled
partner there were no proper parking places for disabled at the
rheumatology outpatients wing. The one thing you can be rely on though
is that no matter how bad the design or how unfit it is for purpose or
even though a 10 year old can point out what's wrong with the building
on the day it opens you will still get paid.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:37:17 +0100, "Bad Disciple"
<inner.phiz@scarlet.be> wrote:
>...about architectural studies. I've finished a lyceum school (until the age
>
>of 18.) with architectural orientation in Belgium. I want to continue my
>
>architectural studies further on. I have several questions. Every advice
>
>is welcome. Thanks in advance.
>
>1. Which are the superior architectural schools with best reputation,
>
>in which countries in Europe or elsewhere?
>
>2. Are the basic studies separated from mastering, with the possibility
>
>to do mastering elsewhere, or not? Or is there such a structure of
>
>the studies at all?
>
>3. Are some architectural schools more art-oriented than others with
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>more technical/ building profile?
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| "Marcia"> wrote
> At a
> recently finished new hospital in Worcester where I took my disabled
> partner there were no proper parking places for disabled
Most unfortunate.
Manys the time that I've walked past rows and rows of unoccupied handicapped
parking spaces the property owner was forced to provide.
You know what you should have done?
You should have made a public statement right then and there.
Shoulda pulled your heater and plugged your <ahem> partner right in the face
and then laid some serious rubber.
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| Michael Bulatovich 2007-02-07, 9:25 pm |
| LOL Can't you just pretend to have lost your mind?
--
MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca
"Marcia" <allgal@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:582ls2dn8mqkk952m17ff5suc1vmu8e8g9@4ax.com...[color=darkred]
> If you want to become an architect in England you must first have part
> of your brain removed. In the last 10 years I have not had a drawing
> that was correct. There seems to be a strange thing that happens to
> the buildings;- they shrink so that the stuff you have to put inside
> them doesn't fit.
> Another couple of examples of total incompetence are a new police
> headquarters where the multi story car park smashed the lights off the
> top off the first vehicles to use it because the architect never
> noticed police vans have big signs saying Police on them. At a
> recently finished new hospital in Worcester where I took my disabled
> partner there were no proper parking places for disabled at the
> rheumatology outpatients wing. The one thing you can be rely on though
> is that no matter how bad the design or how unfit it is for purpose or
> even though a 10 year old can point out what's wrong with the building
> on the day it opens you will still get paid.
>
>
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:37:17 +0100, "Bad Disciple"
> <inner.phiz@scarlet.be> wrote:
>
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| Kris Krieger 2007-03-01, 1:25 pm |
| Marcia <allgal@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
news:582ls2dn8mqkk952m17ff5suc1vmu8e8g9@4ax.com:
> If you want to become an architect in England you must first have part
> of your brain removed. In the last 10 years I have not had a drawing
> that was correct. There seems to be a strange thing that happens to
> the buildings;- they shrink so that the stuff you have to put inside
> them doesn't fit.
SOunds like so amny other things - you have to have two separate "files"
(plans) - the ideal or "mega" version, and the version that will probably
end up being the version that is approved. This sort of Bazaar-type back-
and-forth (i.e., quibbling, IMO) seems to be becoming the norm for pretty
much everything.
As with selling a property, it seems to be a case of "overprive at the
start, so that, when the buyer/customer starts to haggle, you can get them
to offer the price you'd actually wanted". For some reason, quibbling
seems to make buyers/clients think they've gotten "a deal" and that they're
"smarter than the seller/firm". It's stupid, meaning, it's human and
common.
> Another couple of examples of total incompetence are a new police
> headquarters where the multi story car park smashed the lights off the
> top off the first vehicles to use it because the architect never
> noticed police vans have big signs saying Police on them.
That's personal incompetence, tho', not governmental.
> At a
> recently finished new hospital in Worcester where I took my disabled
> partner there were no proper parking places for disabled at the
> rheumatology outpatients wing. The one thing you can be rely on though
> is that no matter how bad the design or how unfit it is for purpose or
> even though a 10 year old can point out what's wrong with the building
> on the day it opens you will still get paid.
ANd therein lies the problem - actions needs to have consequences, and
actions resulting from incompetence or laziness or corner-cutting or so on,
also should have (negative) consequences.
If a contract calls for a good or proper or well-suited (or whatever the
wording is for "functional/right"), and that is not delivered, then IMO
it's a breach of contract - payment should be contingent upon fulfilling
the contract.
Of course, *everyone* now thinks himself or herself to be "special", and
"deserving" of endless lists of "extenuating circumstances". Which is the
real reason that the world is in such a shambles - too many people spend
too much time trying to finagle ways to reneg on their agreemenst and
sidestep their responsibilities (as professionals AND as human beings), and
far too little time on jsut doing what they said they'd do.
Of course, that is a tremendously "politically incorrect" thing to say, so
you rarely hear it said, and instead, a lot of hot air is expended trying
to spread out the "blame" such that, end the end, nobody is responsible for
anything, and nothing sees much (if any) improvement.
- KMK
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> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:37:17 +0100, "Bad Disciple"
> <inner.phiz@scarlet.be> wrote:
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| "Kris Krieger"> wrote
> ANd therein lies the problem - actions needs to have consequences, and
> actions resulting from incompetence or laziness or corner-cutting or so
> on,
> also should have (negative) consequences.
How dare you suggest such a thing?
Have you no feelings?
Where's the love brutha?
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