Architects = Blueprint + Safety Helmet + Pointing Nowhere

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These images look like they are from a 1930′s brochure for an architecture course in every universities, unfortunately they are not. I kind of like how timeless they are, the usual stuff, man holding a rolled up A1 blueprint pointing nowhere while his co-partner struggles to understand the ‘empty’ blueprint.

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The only thing missing from the lady’s ‘costume’ is a playboy bunny ear. A quick search on iStockPhotos and the results for architects. Same old stuff, blueprint, rules, pencil, man with white safety helmet, pointing nowhere, hot chicks looking at blueprint… … and no computers! no AutoCAD, no PDAs, no digital camera.

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Very inspiring, the only problem is:
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STOP DREAMING! GO BACK TO WORK!
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Citations And Footnotes:


  • ^ Architecture - Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
  • ^ Architect - An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.
  • ^ Pritzker Architecture Prize - The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture".
  • ^ - Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, Dover Publications(1985). ISBN 0-486-25023-7
  • ^ - Rondanini, Nunzia Architecture and Social Change Heresies II, Vol. 3, No.

Comments:


  1. Jeremiah
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    haha! I loved this post. In my opinion, the classic image of an “architect” comes from the old and oft forgotten title of “master builder”. I’d much rather be one of those architects in the 50′s and 60′s. The architecture was sexier, the chics were smokin hot and you could smoke and drink in your office. How friggin cool was that?!

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