i knew, after reading:

urbansurgeon said...yay over 4 hours of sleep for the first time in 10 weeks! gooood morning!

we obviously both ran across this yesterday.

from me?


heh.. now i know about flesh farm.

thank you, sunk.

I don't sleep in my chair or at my desk. Our principal won't let us design that much

mick said...^so.. Pants... is it all paint-by-number, then?

essentially.
i need to get somewhere that is pushing the envelope of design. at this point, i'm just licking the stamp

mick said...what do architects dream of when they use the words "cutting edge" ?

i fear that we are too broad a church to answer that. a lot of what seems to excite people in the great big archi thread makes me go "meh" - but i appreciate that it is at the 'edge' – at least it is relative to the preceding 6000 years of architectural design - relative to the last 20, some is a little trendwhorish.

for some it will be the opportunity to work on something that will get in the glossies - which tends to work towards the above and for others it is the ability to work on something that requires an element of intellectual rigour. the latter of those doesn't necessarily generate anything near the 'cutting edge' but is generally more satisfying and stems from our training a lot more.

its always satisfying to exercise the big grey muscle as much as it is any other -and in this respect architects are no different to any of the other design disciplines here (or even the generally intelligent population at large). sadly, as i suspect is the case with the other designers here, the 'man' as client often sees innovation/design as expensive. what is often the brief is to 'design' what has gone before. unlike others here we are more multidisciplinary when it comes to product than most other disciplines. and by that i mean there are more 'obstacles' between you and your visions – not least gravity

that said, perhaps pants works in a studio which is very innovative, but driven by autocratic ego. that happens too. ive done my stints as a CAD monkey but its definitely something i've worked at to avoid.

what would you do if you had a patron like the Sultan of Dubai, and had essentially a wide-open brief to push the limits of structure (and some would include ... taste). ?