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uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fse58 | i6fzp01 | 1,651,086,891 | 1,651,089,764 | 3 | 9 | I was told I should quit in 2nd year also. I decided to keep going, mostly because I didn't really have much of a vision for what else I'd do...also fuck that guy, ya know? Anyhow, I ended up doing pretty well in school, had some amazing experiences, and actually ended up on good terms with the professor at the end (I've actually talked about this moment with them a couple times, and I think they feel pretty bad about it). Ironically, in my case the professor ended up being right because coming out of school I pretty quickly realized that I actually didn't enjoy the practice of architecture. I ended up switching into a related field. My take away is, work really hard on defining what you want your career/life to look like. If your long term goals require an architecture degree, then don't worry about what one guy has to say. | Were you being taught by a Frank Lloyd Wright wannabe? | 0 | 2,873 | 3 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6fzp01 | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,089,764 | 2 | 9 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Were you being taught by a Frank Lloyd Wright wannabe? | 0 | 3,824 | 4.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fuh6b | i6fzp01 | 1,651,087,715 | 1,651,089,764 | 2 | 9 | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | Were you being taught by a Frank Lloyd Wright wannabe? | 0 | 2,049 | 4.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fyqcw | i6fse58 | 1,651,089,396 | 1,651,086,891 | 5 | 3 | Don't give up bro, you can do it. I'm a latin architecture student, not sure if college education can be compared. Nevertheless, I am not a creative designer and I lost a design course, but I kept trying and now I am in eighth semester. Still struggling with creativity, but trying to improve every day, do not quit, you can do it bro. Show him you are not a quitter, maybe a little lost about what he asking for but prepared to work hard to pass the course. You are great bro! We support you, as a reddit community and architecture students or architects... | I was told I should quit in 2nd year also. I decided to keep going, mostly because I didn't really have much of a vision for what else I'd do...also fuck that guy, ya know? Anyhow, I ended up doing pretty well in school, had some amazing experiences, and actually ended up on good terms with the professor at the end (I've actually talked about this moment with them a couple times, and I think they feel pretty bad about it). Ironically, in my case the professor ended up being right because coming out of school I pretty quickly realized that I actually didn't enjoy the practice of architecture. I ended up switching into a related field. My take away is, work really hard on defining what you want your career/life to look like. If your long term goals require an architecture degree, then don't worry about what one guy has to say. | 1 | 2,505 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6fyqcw | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,089,396 | 2 | 5 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Don't give up bro, you can do it. I'm a latin architecture student, not sure if college education can be compared. Nevertheless, I am not a creative designer and I lost a design course, but I kept trying and now I am in eighth semester. Still struggling with creativity, but trying to improve every day, do not quit, you can do it bro. Show him you are not a quitter, maybe a little lost about what he asking for but prepared to work hard to pass the course. You are great bro! We support you, as a reddit community and architecture students or architects... | 0 | 3,456 | 2.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fuh6b | i6fyqcw | 1,651,087,715 | 1,651,089,396 | 2 | 5 | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | Don't give up bro, you can do it. I'm a latin architecture student, not sure if college education can be compared. Nevertheless, I am not a creative designer and I lost a design course, but I kept trying and now I am in eighth semester. Still struggling with creativity, but trying to improve every day, do not quit, you can do it bro. Show him you are not a quitter, maybe a little lost about what he asking for but prepared to work hard to pass the course. You are great bro! We support you, as a reddit community and architecture students or architects... | 0 | 1,681 | 2.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g0xsl | i6fse58 | 1,651,090,247 | 1,651,086,891 | 5 | 3 | Fuck architecture professors. If you want to carve your own path in architecture you have to keep fighting the good fight and get through the architecture school bullshit. There are so many ways to use your passion and your heart through tangible design in the real built environment. Work hard, do it for yourself, and draw your ass off. Believe in yourself. Use all the fire in your veins to get through the hard times. | I was told I should quit in 2nd year also. I decided to keep going, mostly because I didn't really have much of a vision for what else I'd do...also fuck that guy, ya know? Anyhow, I ended up doing pretty well in school, had some amazing experiences, and actually ended up on good terms with the professor at the end (I've actually talked about this moment with them a couple times, and I think they feel pretty bad about it). Ironically, in my case the professor ended up being right because coming out of school I pretty quickly realized that I actually didn't enjoy the practice of architecture. I ended up switching into a related field. My take away is, work really hard on defining what you want your career/life to look like. If your long term goals require an architecture degree, then don't worry about what one guy has to say. | 1 | 3,356 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g0xsl | i6g0sjc | 1,651,090,247 | 1,651,090,190 | 5 | 3 | Fuck architecture professors. If you want to carve your own path in architecture you have to keep fighting the good fight and get through the architecture school bullshit. There are so many ways to use your passion and your heart through tangible design in the real built environment. Work hard, do it for yourself, and draw your ass off. Believe in yourself. Use all the fire in your veins to get through the hard times. | Honestly he sounds like a dick. But don't worry- in the future, when you're running your own architecture practice, this experience is going to help you know how to deal with your clients. | 1 | 57 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6g0xsl | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,090,247 | 2 | 5 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Fuck architecture professors. If you want to carve your own path in architecture you have to keep fighting the good fight and get through the architecture school bullshit. There are so many ways to use your passion and your heart through tangible design in the real built environment. Work hard, do it for yourself, and draw your ass off. Believe in yourself. Use all the fire in your veins to get through the hard times. | 0 | 4,307 | 2.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g0xsl | i6fuh6b | 1,651,090,247 | 1,651,087,715 | 5 | 2 | Fuck architecture professors. If you want to carve your own path in architecture you have to keep fighting the good fight and get through the architecture school bullshit. There are so many ways to use your passion and your heart through tangible design in the real built environment. Work hard, do it for yourself, and draw your ass off. Believe in yourself. Use all the fire in your veins to get through the hard times. | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 2,532 | 2.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gblhe | i6ifrvo | 1,651,094,458 | 1,651,136,149 | 4 | 5 | This is seriously such a bad symptom of the saviour complex in architecture. You're not there to revolutionize anything, your abstract ideas about symmetry and lines and form and whatever do not matter. You will learn to make it work for your clients' needs. We're not glorified artists for God's sake. | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | 0 | 41,691 | 1.25 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gblhe | i6fse58 | 1,651,094,458 | 1,651,086,891 | 4 | 3 | This is seriously such a bad symptom of the saviour complex in architecture. You're not there to revolutionize anything, your abstract ideas about symmetry and lines and form and whatever do not matter. You will learn to make it work for your clients' needs. We're not glorified artists for God's sake. | I was told I should quit in 2nd year also. I decided to keep going, mostly because I didn't really have much of a vision for what else I'd do...also fuck that guy, ya know? Anyhow, I ended up doing pretty well in school, had some amazing experiences, and actually ended up on good terms with the professor at the end (I've actually talked about this moment with them a couple times, and I think they feel pretty bad about it). Ironically, in my case the professor ended up being right because coming out of school I pretty quickly realized that I actually didn't enjoy the practice of architecture. I ended up switching into a related field. My take away is, work really hard on defining what you want your career/life to look like. If your long term goals require an architecture degree, then don't worry about what one guy has to say. | 1 | 7,567 | 1.333333 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g0sjc | i6gblhe | 1,651,090,190 | 1,651,094,458 | 3 | 4 | Honestly he sounds like a dick. But don't worry- in the future, when you're running your own architecture practice, this experience is going to help you know how to deal with your clients. | This is seriously such a bad symptom of the saviour complex in architecture. You're not there to revolutionize anything, your abstract ideas about symmetry and lines and form and whatever do not matter. You will learn to make it work for your clients' needs. We're not glorified artists for God's sake. | 0 | 4,268 | 1.333333 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g3bml | i6gblhe | 1,651,091,161 | 1,651,094,458 | 3 | 4 | Just one dudes opinion OP, just because he's an instructor or Professor don't mean his words or opinions are *law* fuck that dude lol. Architecture IS art, at least imo homie the most interesting structure are legit artistic at its core if it ain't immediately obvious. doesn't sound like dude even gave you any advice, that's not cool either, can't just mark you down because HE doesn't favor your style, professor can't be biased like that w grades that's fucked, if you created a realistic functional structure than that dude can get all the smoke fr lol. i ain't really got no advice OP n i'm sorry on that end, fr just sounds like u was treated unfairly 🤷♂️ i guess if you have to adjust to pass the class, do that (i don't think u SHOULD have to) but it's just one view, keep working on your style is what is say. do you | This is seriously such a bad symptom of the saviour complex in architecture. You're not there to revolutionize anything, your abstract ideas about symmetry and lines and form and whatever do not matter. You will learn to make it work for your clients' needs. We're not glorified artists for God's sake. | 0 | 3,297 | 1.333333 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gblhe | i6fq05p | 1,651,094,458 | 1,651,085,940 | 4 | 2 | This is seriously such a bad symptom of the saviour complex in architecture. You're not there to revolutionize anything, your abstract ideas about symmetry and lines and form and whatever do not matter. You will learn to make it work for your clients' needs. We're not glorified artists for God's sake. | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | 1 | 8,518 | 2 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gblhe | i6fuh6b | 1,651,094,458 | 1,651,087,715 | 4 | 2 | This is seriously such a bad symptom of the saviour complex in architecture. You're not there to revolutionize anything, your abstract ideas about symmetry and lines and form and whatever do not matter. You will learn to make it work for your clients' needs. We're not glorified artists for God's sake. | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 6,743 | 2 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6gblhe | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,094,458 | 2 | 4 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | This is seriously such a bad symptom of the saviour complex in architecture. You're not there to revolutionize anything, your abstract ideas about symmetry and lines and form and whatever do not matter. You will learn to make it work for your clients' needs. We're not glorified artists for God's sake. | 0 | 3,677 | 2 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g932k | i6gblhe | 1,651,093,425 | 1,651,094,458 | 2 | 4 | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | This is seriously such a bad symptom of the saviour complex in architecture. You're not there to revolutionize anything, your abstract ideas about symmetry and lines and form and whatever do not matter. You will learn to make it work for your clients' needs. We're not glorified artists for God's sake. | 0 | 1,033 | 2 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6hdped | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,111,718 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | Pretend you had a great client who walked in, great budget but said it has to be very asymmetrical. Architecture isn't about doing your own style, it's about using your creativity to solve a functional need in a sensitive and elegant way. If your problems can only be solved by symmetry, then your school isn't challenging you enough with complex programs. Aesthetically pleasing asymmetry is harder than symmetry, these are first year teachings. Imagine taking applied math in University and you were only going to provide even number answers using only odd number of digits. | 1 | 24,431 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6hgc3n | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,112,868 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | If your professor was good enough to decide who "has it", he wouldn't be teaching freshman undergrad. Fuck him, keep your head up and just try to get through the class. He doesn't matter except for the grade. | 1 | 23,281 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6fse58 | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,086,891 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | I was told I should quit in 2nd year also. I decided to keep going, mostly because I didn't really have much of a vision for what else I'd do...also fuck that guy, ya know? Anyhow, I ended up doing pretty well in school, had some amazing experiences, and actually ended up on good terms with the professor at the end (I've actually talked about this moment with them a couple times, and I think they feel pretty bad about it). Ironically, in my case the professor ended up being right because coming out of school I pretty quickly realized that I actually didn't enjoy the practice of architecture. I ended up switching into a related field. My take away is, work really hard on defining what you want your career/life to look like. If your long term goals require an architecture degree, then don't worry about what one guy has to say. | 1 | 49,258 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6g0sjc | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,090,190 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | Honestly he sounds like a dick. But don't worry- in the future, when you're running your own architecture practice, this experience is going to help you know how to deal with your clients. | 1 | 45,959 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6g3bml | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,091,161 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | Just one dudes opinion OP, just because he's an instructor or Professor don't mean his words or opinions are *law* fuck that dude lol. Architecture IS art, at least imo homie the most interesting structure are legit artistic at its core if it ain't immediately obvious. doesn't sound like dude even gave you any advice, that's not cool either, can't just mark you down because HE doesn't favor your style, professor can't be biased like that w grades that's fucked, if you created a realistic functional structure than that dude can get all the smoke fr lol. i ain't really got no advice OP n i'm sorry on that end, fr just sounds like u was treated unfairly 🤷♂️ i guess if you have to adjust to pass the class, do that (i don't think u SHOULD have to) but it's just one view, keep working on your style is what is say. do you | 1 | 44,988 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6gx3m3 | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,104,119 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | Design is a skill not a talent. It’s something you learn over a long time with a lot of practice. After 3 semesters, no one can tell you you “don’t have it.” You can master anything you stick with. Don’t let it get to you. | 1 | 32,030 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gy08u | i6ifrvo | 1,651,104,533 | 1,651,136,149 | 3 | 5 | Most people in this career path are bias to a style they love. Don’t let anyone tell you can’t make it. Architects are filled with gatekeepers | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | 0 | 31,616 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6h0j3g | i6ifrvo | 1,651,105,702 | 1,651,136,149 | 3 | 5 | Fuck that teacher, I'd say you are amazing and can do some beautiful work!!! | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | 0 | 30,447 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6h1tmf | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,106,308 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | It's will be fine. Did you fail? Grades don't matter for architecture | 1 | 29,841 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6h8v3m | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,109,522 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | I practiced VERY briefly. You know why? All the high and mighty talk of design and beauty means mostly shit most of the time in the real world. Shopping centers, spec office buildings, flex warehouses... That's what most architecture is, and really, it's about cost and schedule more than anything. There's a highly technical side that has little to do with beauty. Use this critique to balance your skills. Take as many classes as you can in sales, business development, marketing, psychology, communication, and leadership. The architects who do that best are the successful ones. You can ways hire great designers. Finding and developing clients, retaining those clients, and running a business are what's in shortest supply. A competent designer with great client management skills will find and keep jobs easier than a magazine cover quality designer who can't sell or communicate well. I quit architecture and now help them do just that. Spent 20 years consulting to the industry, and I know what leaders want most. Good luck! | 1 | 26,627 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6hc0a8 | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,110,968 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | Man I stopped listening to architecture professors a while ago. Unless it's someone you trust or does it part time whilst actually working in the real world, it's most likely garbage. Basically it's pretty much "if you can't teach; do", or more commonly, get a better salary spouting rubbish to youngster than what practice life offers these days. I'd say the majority of my crits, in retrospect, were just the person being as absolutely and thoroughly unhelpful as humanly possible. Oh you have a dealine for next week? Here's a bunch of my own arbitary personal opinions on how to completely change everything before then. There were some great people though, who offered constructive feedback, ideas for how I can expand my work, detailed explainations of how I could explore something further - those are the people to listen to, not the people who try to funnel you into a particular way of thinking/doing something. Also the whole language of architecture thing is absolute nonesense. I really worked hard to expand my working vocuabulary, and it can be useful communicating with other architects or clients, but unless it's something tangible, then it's usually just arch theory rubbish - there are innumerable frameworks for understanding a building. I cannot stand the styles debate, and just walk away whenever it's brought up for example. You're already describing what you like in your own words: shapes, beauty, order, functionality. I love those things too, it's just a case of building from there. Don't let anyone else tell you who you are. You define yourself by you actions. Do whatever you feel you have a calling to do in life. It's really as simple as that. | 1 | 25,181 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6heyw8 | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,112,268 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | I had a studio prof tell me I needed to think less like an artist and more like an engineer. Thought that was rich considering I was accepted into the program b/c of my artistic ability. Not surprising, but there were several other students who had issues with him and he ended up not being asked back to teach. And not long after that an engineer told me I thought like an engineer so it’s all relative. We were constantly told that school was our chance to be wild with our ideas but some profs couldn’t handle it. | 1 | 23,881 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hfri5 | i6ifrvo | 1,651,112,616 | 1,651,136,149 | 3 | 5 | Tell him to show you a building he designed | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | 0 | 23,533 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6hlzzt | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,115,439 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | yeah, they're controlling and always try to make artistic people like us down I hate it tbh and idk why they do it maybe out of jealousy one of my teacher left us hanging and now my problem is very big, hope you're okay mate | 1 | 20,710 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6hxwir | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,121,830 | 5 | 3 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | Remember a lot of professors are bitter old men that never made it. | 1 | 14,319 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6i6id7 | i6ifrvo | 1,651,127,994 | 1,651,136,149 | 3 | 5 | I hope you read this comment. When I finished first year, in portfolio the whole internal board lead by a lecturer who didn't like me told me the same thing. They said I rather cut ties now and either go to a technicon or change career lines. The funny thing is the externals where confused and said we don't get it the work isn't bad. I however was seriously impacted by a group of guys collectively saying this to me whom I had crits with the whole year. I went and spun, didn't know what to do with my future. A very blunt architect I knew said something to me that convinced me to keep fighting. She said if you can't fight for yourself and believe in yourself regardless of what you do you going to battle because someone will always tell you this is not for you. I stayed. I became one of the students who people respected and admired to the point where when I applied for postgrad I had a 3 lectures make contact with me about how they excited to see a strong student return to the school. If you believe you in the right place, you in the right place. Keep believing. Find mentors whose opinion you trust and only listen to them. You can't listen to everyone, especially when a lot of people's motives might be in the wrong place. Beyond your mentors, only take what you need from what people say and disregard the rest. Listen to them but don't allow them to cloud your judgment. If you mentor has frank conversations with you then engage. | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | 0 | 8,155 | 1.666667 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6ifrvo | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,136,149 | 2 | 5 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | 0 | 50,209 | 2.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6ifrvo | i6fuh6b | 1,651,136,149 | 1,651,087,715 | 5 | 2 | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 48,434 | 2.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6ifrvo | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,136,149 | 2 | 5 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | 0 | 45,368 | 2.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g932k | i6ifrvo | 1,651,093,425 | 1,651,136,149 | 2 | 5 | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | 0 | 42,724 | 2.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gewce | i6ifrvo | 1,651,095,838 | 1,651,136,149 | 2 | 5 | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | Before I go off on this rant, you must realize that any good professor in architecture or otherwise should blame himself for your "failure". TL; DR: Screw that guy, Architecture (language, discourse and building) is a zombie and you can invent the new one. Right now Architecture (capital A) is DEAD. Gone. No more. Deceased. For anybody that disagrees I can show you at least 10 architects that have all designed the same exact building in ten different cities all over the world. It is not even plagiarism anymore, it is DEAD. For an example, think shifted boxes with vertical floor to ceiling facade panels alternating open/closed. That is the bad news. Good news is that right at this very moment The New is needed. And we do not really know what The New is yet and we need New Ideas. The old ideas have burrowed their way from the functional systematic abstractions to the iconic facade and have died of exposure, our cities are all littered with their identical corpses. Raise your hand if your city has a block with a rationalized Sanaa Zollverein facade (i.e. square windows of different sizes playfully scattered) or a clashing platonic shapes one, or a layercake one, I can go on forever. Without seeing your work, which will probably be some sort of trite because you are a student and students are just making All The Mistakes, I can tell you your professor is not even wrong. Oh he is wrong, but so wrong he does not know how wrong. His world -my world- does not exist anymore. He graded you on how good an employee you would be, drawing shapes in Revit and rendering pretty pictures. For his office you would not cut it to work until sunrise, be glad. Imagine a future where we no longer accept shifting environmental costs to the future, where materials need to be circular -no, regenerative even- where a building actually is a net positive to the local ecosystem. A world where we regard ourselves a part of nature and not nature as an adversary to be conquered. It sure feels like that is what we need and where all this is headed eventually, but nobody knows what it looks like. Yet. Tacking trees to a facade will not cut it. Solar panels on the roof will not cut it. These are now layers of expense, not an integral part of the Idea. So rejoice. You Suck in the eyes of the dead, the future is yours. | 0 | 40,311 | 2.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6hdped | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,111,718 | 2 | 3 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Pretend you had a great client who walked in, great budget but said it has to be very asymmetrical. Architecture isn't about doing your own style, it's about using your creativity to solve a functional need in a sensitive and elegant way. If your problems can only be solved by symmetry, then your school isn't challenging you enough with complex programs. Aesthetically pleasing asymmetry is harder than symmetry, these are first year teachings. Imagine taking applied math in University and you were only going to provide even number answers using only odd number of digits. | 0 | 25,778 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hdped | i6fuh6b | 1,651,111,718 | 1,651,087,715 | 3 | 2 | Pretend you had a great client who walked in, great budget but said it has to be very asymmetrical. Architecture isn't about doing your own style, it's about using your creativity to solve a functional need in a sensitive and elegant way. If your problems can only be solved by symmetry, then your school isn't challenging you enough with complex programs. Aesthetically pleasing asymmetry is harder than symmetry, these are first year teachings. Imagine taking applied math in University and you were only going to provide even number answers using only odd number of digits. | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 24,003 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6hdped | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,111,718 | 2 | 3 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | Pretend you had a great client who walked in, great budget but said it has to be very asymmetrical. Architecture isn't about doing your own style, it's about using your creativity to solve a functional need in a sensitive and elegant way. If your problems can only be solved by symmetry, then your school isn't challenging you enough with complex programs. Aesthetically pleasing asymmetry is harder than symmetry, these are first year teachings. Imagine taking applied math in University and you were only going to provide even number answers using only odd number of digits. | 0 | 20,937 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hdped | i6g932k | 1,651,111,718 | 1,651,093,425 | 3 | 2 | Pretend you had a great client who walked in, great budget but said it has to be very asymmetrical. Architecture isn't about doing your own style, it's about using your creativity to solve a functional need in a sensitive and elegant way. If your problems can only be solved by symmetry, then your school isn't challenging you enough with complex programs. Aesthetically pleasing asymmetry is harder than symmetry, these are first year teachings. Imagine taking applied math in University and you were only going to provide even number answers using only odd number of digits. | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | 1 | 18,293 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gewce | i6hdped | 1,651,095,838 | 1,651,111,718 | 2 | 3 | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | Pretend you had a great client who walked in, great budget but said it has to be very asymmetrical. Architecture isn't about doing your own style, it's about using your creativity to solve a functional need in a sensitive and elegant way. If your problems can only be solved by symmetry, then your school isn't challenging you enough with complex programs. Aesthetically pleasing asymmetry is harder than symmetry, these are first year teachings. Imagine taking applied math in University and you were only going to provide even number answers using only odd number of digits. | 0 | 15,880 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hgc3n | i6fq05p | 1,651,112,868 | 1,651,085,940 | 3 | 2 | If your professor was good enough to decide who "has it", he wouldn't be teaching freshman undergrad. Fuck him, keep your head up and just try to get through the class. He doesn't matter except for the grade. | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | 1 | 26,928 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hgc3n | i6fuh6b | 1,651,112,868 | 1,651,087,715 | 3 | 2 | If your professor was good enough to decide who "has it", he wouldn't be teaching freshman undergrad. Fuck him, keep your head up and just try to get through the class. He doesn't matter except for the grade. | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 25,153 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6hgc3n | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,112,868 | 2 | 3 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | If your professor was good enough to decide who "has it", he wouldn't be teaching freshman undergrad. Fuck him, keep your head up and just try to get through the class. He doesn't matter except for the grade. | 0 | 22,087 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g932k | i6hgc3n | 1,651,093,425 | 1,651,112,868 | 2 | 3 | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | If your professor was good enough to decide who "has it", he wouldn't be teaching freshman undergrad. Fuck him, keep your head up and just try to get through the class. He doesn't matter except for the grade. | 0 | 19,443 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gewce | i6hgc3n | 1,651,095,838 | 1,651,112,868 | 2 | 3 | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | If your professor was good enough to decide who "has it", he wouldn't be teaching freshman undergrad. Fuck him, keep your head up and just try to get through the class. He doesn't matter except for the grade. | 0 | 17,030 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6fse58 | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,086,891 | 2 | 3 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | I was told I should quit in 2nd year also. I decided to keep going, mostly because I didn't really have much of a vision for what else I'd do...also fuck that guy, ya know? Anyhow, I ended up doing pretty well in school, had some amazing experiences, and actually ended up on good terms with the professor at the end (I've actually talked about this moment with them a couple times, and I think they feel pretty bad about it). Ironically, in my case the professor ended up being right because coming out of school I pretty quickly realized that I actually didn't enjoy the practice of architecture. I ended up switching into a related field. My take away is, work really hard on defining what you want your career/life to look like. If your long term goals require an architecture degree, then don't worry about what one guy has to say. | 0 | 951 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6g0sjc | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,090,190 | 2 | 3 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Honestly he sounds like a dick. But don't worry- in the future, when you're running your own architecture practice, this experience is going to help you know how to deal with your clients. | 0 | 4,250 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fuh6b | i6g0sjc | 1,651,087,715 | 1,651,090,190 | 2 | 3 | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | Honestly he sounds like a dick. But don't worry- in the future, when you're running your own architecture practice, this experience is going to help you know how to deal with your clients. | 0 | 2,475 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6g3bml | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,091,161 | 2 | 3 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Just one dudes opinion OP, just because he's an instructor or Professor don't mean his words or opinions are *law* fuck that dude lol. Architecture IS art, at least imo homie the most interesting structure are legit artistic at its core if it ain't immediately obvious. doesn't sound like dude even gave you any advice, that's not cool either, can't just mark you down because HE doesn't favor your style, professor can't be biased like that w grades that's fucked, if you created a realistic functional structure than that dude can get all the smoke fr lol. i ain't really got no advice OP n i'm sorry on that end, fr just sounds like u was treated unfairly 🤷♂️ i guess if you have to adjust to pass the class, do that (i don't think u SHOULD have to) but it's just one view, keep working on your style is what is say. do you | 0 | 5,221 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g3bml | i6fuh6b | 1,651,091,161 | 1,651,087,715 | 3 | 2 | Just one dudes opinion OP, just because he's an instructor or Professor don't mean his words or opinions are *law* fuck that dude lol. Architecture IS art, at least imo homie the most interesting structure are legit artistic at its core if it ain't immediately obvious. doesn't sound like dude even gave you any advice, that's not cool either, can't just mark you down because HE doesn't favor your style, professor can't be biased like that w grades that's fucked, if you created a realistic functional structure than that dude can get all the smoke fr lol. i ain't really got no advice OP n i'm sorry on that end, fr just sounds like u was treated unfairly 🤷♂️ i guess if you have to adjust to pass the class, do that (i don't think u SHOULD have to) but it's just one view, keep working on your style is what is say. do you | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 3,446 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6g3bml | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,091,161 | 2 | 3 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | Just one dudes opinion OP, just because he's an instructor or Professor don't mean his words or opinions are *law* fuck that dude lol. Architecture IS art, at least imo homie the most interesting structure are legit artistic at its core if it ain't immediately obvious. doesn't sound like dude even gave you any advice, that's not cool either, can't just mark you down because HE doesn't favor your style, professor can't be biased like that w grades that's fucked, if you created a realistic functional structure than that dude can get all the smoke fr lol. i ain't really got no advice OP n i'm sorry on that end, fr just sounds like u was treated unfairly 🤷♂️ i guess if you have to adjust to pass the class, do that (i don't think u SHOULD have to) but it's just one view, keep working on your style is what is say. do you | 0 | 380 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6gx3m3 | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,104,119 | 2 | 3 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Design is a skill not a talent. It’s something you learn over a long time with a lot of practice. After 3 semesters, no one can tell you you “don’t have it.” You can master anything you stick with. Don’t let it get to you. | 0 | 18,179 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fuh6b | i6gx3m3 | 1,651,087,715 | 1,651,104,119 | 2 | 3 | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | Design is a skill not a talent. It’s something you learn over a long time with a lot of practice. After 3 semesters, no one can tell you you “don’t have it.” You can master anything you stick with. Don’t let it get to you. | 0 | 16,404 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6gx3m3 | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,104,119 | 2 | 3 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | Design is a skill not a talent. It’s something you learn over a long time with a lot of practice. After 3 semesters, no one can tell you you “don’t have it.” You can master anything you stick with. Don’t let it get to you. | 0 | 13,338 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gx3m3 | i6g932k | 1,651,104,119 | 1,651,093,425 | 3 | 2 | Design is a skill not a talent. It’s something you learn over a long time with a lot of practice. After 3 semesters, no one can tell you you “don’t have it.” You can master anything you stick with. Don’t let it get to you. | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | 1 | 10,694 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gx3m3 | i6gewce | 1,651,104,119 | 1,651,095,838 | 3 | 2 | Design is a skill not a talent. It’s something you learn over a long time with a lot of practice. After 3 semesters, no one can tell you you “don’t have it.” You can master anything you stick with. Don’t let it get to you. | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | 1 | 8,281 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gy08u | i6fq05p | 1,651,104,533 | 1,651,085,940 | 3 | 2 | Most people in this career path are bias to a style they love. Don’t let anyone tell you can’t make it. Architects are filled with gatekeepers | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | 1 | 18,593 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gy08u | i6fuh6b | 1,651,104,533 | 1,651,087,715 | 3 | 2 | Most people in this career path are bias to a style they love. Don’t let anyone tell you can’t make it. Architects are filled with gatekeepers | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 16,818 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gy08u | i6g2c1z | 1,651,104,533 | 1,651,090,781 | 3 | 2 | Most people in this career path are bias to a style they love. Don’t let anyone tell you can’t make it. Architects are filled with gatekeepers | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | 1 | 13,752 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g932k | i6gy08u | 1,651,093,425 | 1,651,104,533 | 2 | 3 | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | Most people in this career path are bias to a style they love. Don’t let anyone tell you can’t make it. Architects are filled with gatekeepers | 0 | 11,108 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gy08u | i6gewce | 1,651,104,533 | 1,651,095,838 | 3 | 2 | Most people in this career path are bias to a style they love. Don’t let anyone tell you can’t make it. Architects are filled with gatekeepers | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | 1 | 8,695 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6h0j3g | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,105,702 | 2 | 3 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Fuck that teacher, I'd say you are amazing and can do some beautiful work!!! | 0 | 19,762 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6h0j3g | i6fuh6b | 1,651,105,702 | 1,651,087,715 | 3 | 2 | Fuck that teacher, I'd say you are amazing and can do some beautiful work!!! | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 17,987 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6h0j3g | i6g2c1z | 1,651,105,702 | 1,651,090,781 | 3 | 2 | Fuck that teacher, I'd say you are amazing and can do some beautiful work!!! | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | 1 | 14,921 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6h0j3g | i6g932k | 1,651,105,702 | 1,651,093,425 | 3 | 2 | Fuck that teacher, I'd say you are amazing and can do some beautiful work!!! | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | 1 | 12,277 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gewce | i6h0j3g | 1,651,095,838 | 1,651,105,702 | 2 | 3 | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | Fuck that teacher, I'd say you are amazing and can do some beautiful work!!! | 0 | 9,864 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6h1tmf | i6fq05p | 1,651,106,308 | 1,651,085,940 | 3 | 2 | It's will be fine. Did you fail? Grades don't matter for architecture | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | 1 | 20,368 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fuh6b | i6h1tmf | 1,651,087,715 | 1,651,106,308 | 2 | 3 | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | It's will be fine. Did you fail? Grades don't matter for architecture | 0 | 18,593 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6h1tmf | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,106,308 | 2 | 3 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | It's will be fine. Did you fail? Grades don't matter for architecture | 0 | 15,527 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6h1tmf | i6g932k | 1,651,106,308 | 1,651,093,425 | 3 | 2 | It's will be fine. Did you fail? Grades don't matter for architecture | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | 1 | 12,883 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gewce | i6h1tmf | 1,651,095,838 | 1,651,106,308 | 2 | 3 | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | It's will be fine. Did you fail? Grades don't matter for architecture | 0 | 10,470 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6h8v3m | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,109,522 | 2 | 3 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | I practiced VERY briefly. You know why? All the high and mighty talk of design and beauty means mostly shit most of the time in the real world. Shopping centers, spec office buildings, flex warehouses... That's what most architecture is, and really, it's about cost and schedule more than anything. There's a highly technical side that has little to do with beauty. Use this critique to balance your skills. Take as many classes as you can in sales, business development, marketing, psychology, communication, and leadership. The architects who do that best are the successful ones. You can ways hire great designers. Finding and developing clients, retaining those clients, and running a business are what's in shortest supply. A competent designer with great client management skills will find and keep jobs easier than a magazine cover quality designer who can't sell or communicate well. I quit architecture and now help them do just that. Spent 20 years consulting to the industry, and I know what leaders want most. Good luck! | 0 | 23,582 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6h8v3m | i6fuh6b | 1,651,109,522 | 1,651,087,715 | 3 | 2 | I practiced VERY briefly. You know why? All the high and mighty talk of design and beauty means mostly shit most of the time in the real world. Shopping centers, spec office buildings, flex warehouses... That's what most architecture is, and really, it's about cost and schedule more than anything. There's a highly technical side that has little to do with beauty. Use this critique to balance your skills. Take as many classes as you can in sales, business development, marketing, psychology, communication, and leadership. The architects who do that best are the successful ones. You can ways hire great designers. Finding and developing clients, retaining those clients, and running a business are what's in shortest supply. A competent designer with great client management skills will find and keep jobs easier than a magazine cover quality designer who can't sell or communicate well. I quit architecture and now help them do just that. Spent 20 years consulting to the industry, and I know what leaders want most. Good luck! | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 21,807 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6h8v3m | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,109,522 | 2 | 3 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | I practiced VERY briefly. You know why? All the high and mighty talk of design and beauty means mostly shit most of the time in the real world. Shopping centers, spec office buildings, flex warehouses... That's what most architecture is, and really, it's about cost and schedule more than anything. There's a highly technical side that has little to do with beauty. Use this critique to balance your skills. Take as many classes as you can in sales, business development, marketing, psychology, communication, and leadership. The architects who do that best are the successful ones. You can ways hire great designers. Finding and developing clients, retaining those clients, and running a business are what's in shortest supply. A competent designer with great client management skills will find and keep jobs easier than a magazine cover quality designer who can't sell or communicate well. I quit architecture and now help them do just that. Spent 20 years consulting to the industry, and I know what leaders want most. Good luck! | 0 | 18,741 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6h8v3m | i6g932k | 1,651,109,522 | 1,651,093,425 | 3 | 2 | I practiced VERY briefly. You know why? All the high and mighty talk of design and beauty means mostly shit most of the time in the real world. Shopping centers, spec office buildings, flex warehouses... That's what most architecture is, and really, it's about cost and schedule more than anything. There's a highly technical side that has little to do with beauty. Use this critique to balance your skills. Take as many classes as you can in sales, business development, marketing, psychology, communication, and leadership. The architects who do that best are the successful ones. You can ways hire great designers. Finding and developing clients, retaining those clients, and running a business are what's in shortest supply. A competent designer with great client management skills will find and keep jobs easier than a magazine cover quality designer who can't sell or communicate well. I quit architecture and now help them do just that. Spent 20 years consulting to the industry, and I know what leaders want most. Good luck! | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | 1 | 16,097 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6h8v3m | i6gewce | 1,651,109,522 | 1,651,095,838 | 3 | 2 | I practiced VERY briefly. You know why? All the high and mighty talk of design and beauty means mostly shit most of the time in the real world. Shopping centers, spec office buildings, flex warehouses... That's what most architecture is, and really, it's about cost and schedule more than anything. There's a highly technical side that has little to do with beauty. Use this critique to balance your skills. Take as many classes as you can in sales, business development, marketing, psychology, communication, and leadership. The architects who do that best are the successful ones. You can ways hire great designers. Finding and developing clients, retaining those clients, and running a business are what's in shortest supply. A competent designer with great client management skills will find and keep jobs easier than a magazine cover quality designer who can't sell or communicate well. I quit architecture and now help them do just that. Spent 20 years consulting to the industry, and I know what leaders want most. Good luck! | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | 1 | 13,684 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6hc0a8 | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,110,968 | 2 | 3 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | Man I stopped listening to architecture professors a while ago. Unless it's someone you trust or does it part time whilst actually working in the real world, it's most likely garbage. Basically it's pretty much "if you can't teach; do", or more commonly, get a better salary spouting rubbish to youngster than what practice life offers these days. I'd say the majority of my crits, in retrospect, were just the person being as absolutely and thoroughly unhelpful as humanly possible. Oh you have a dealine for next week? Here's a bunch of my own arbitary personal opinions on how to completely change everything before then. There were some great people though, who offered constructive feedback, ideas for how I can expand my work, detailed explainations of how I could explore something further - those are the people to listen to, not the people who try to funnel you into a particular way of thinking/doing something. Also the whole language of architecture thing is absolute nonesense. I really worked hard to expand my working vocuabulary, and it can be useful communicating with other architects or clients, but unless it's something tangible, then it's usually just arch theory rubbish - there are innumerable frameworks for understanding a building. I cannot stand the styles debate, and just walk away whenever it's brought up for example. You're already describing what you like in your own words: shapes, beauty, order, functionality. I love those things too, it's just a case of building from there. Don't let anyone else tell you who you are. You define yourself by you actions. Do whatever you feel you have a calling to do in life. It's really as simple as that. | 0 | 25,028 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fuh6b | i6hc0a8 | 1,651,087,715 | 1,651,110,968 | 2 | 3 | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | Man I stopped listening to architecture professors a while ago. Unless it's someone you trust or does it part time whilst actually working in the real world, it's most likely garbage. Basically it's pretty much "if you can't teach; do", or more commonly, get a better salary spouting rubbish to youngster than what practice life offers these days. I'd say the majority of my crits, in retrospect, were just the person being as absolutely and thoroughly unhelpful as humanly possible. Oh you have a dealine for next week? Here's a bunch of my own arbitary personal opinions on how to completely change everything before then. There were some great people though, who offered constructive feedback, ideas for how I can expand my work, detailed explainations of how I could explore something further - those are the people to listen to, not the people who try to funnel you into a particular way of thinking/doing something. Also the whole language of architecture thing is absolute nonesense. I really worked hard to expand my working vocuabulary, and it can be useful communicating with other architects or clients, but unless it's something tangible, then it's usually just arch theory rubbish - there are innumerable frameworks for understanding a building. I cannot stand the styles debate, and just walk away whenever it's brought up for example. You're already describing what you like in your own words: shapes, beauty, order, functionality. I love those things too, it's just a case of building from there. Don't let anyone else tell you who you are. You define yourself by you actions. Do whatever you feel you have a calling to do in life. It's really as simple as that. | 0 | 23,253 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6hc0a8 | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,110,968 | 2 | 3 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | Man I stopped listening to architecture professors a while ago. Unless it's someone you trust or does it part time whilst actually working in the real world, it's most likely garbage. Basically it's pretty much "if you can't teach; do", or more commonly, get a better salary spouting rubbish to youngster than what practice life offers these days. I'd say the majority of my crits, in retrospect, were just the person being as absolutely and thoroughly unhelpful as humanly possible. Oh you have a dealine for next week? Here's a bunch of my own arbitary personal opinions on how to completely change everything before then. There were some great people though, who offered constructive feedback, ideas for how I can expand my work, detailed explainations of how I could explore something further - those are the people to listen to, not the people who try to funnel you into a particular way of thinking/doing something. Also the whole language of architecture thing is absolute nonesense. I really worked hard to expand my working vocuabulary, and it can be useful communicating with other architects or clients, but unless it's something tangible, then it's usually just arch theory rubbish - there are innumerable frameworks for understanding a building. I cannot stand the styles debate, and just walk away whenever it's brought up for example. You're already describing what you like in your own words: shapes, beauty, order, functionality. I love those things too, it's just a case of building from there. Don't let anyone else tell you who you are. You define yourself by you actions. Do whatever you feel you have a calling to do in life. It's really as simple as that. | 0 | 20,187 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g932k | i6hc0a8 | 1,651,093,425 | 1,651,110,968 | 2 | 3 | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | Man I stopped listening to architecture professors a while ago. Unless it's someone you trust or does it part time whilst actually working in the real world, it's most likely garbage. Basically it's pretty much "if you can't teach; do", or more commonly, get a better salary spouting rubbish to youngster than what practice life offers these days. I'd say the majority of my crits, in retrospect, were just the person being as absolutely and thoroughly unhelpful as humanly possible. Oh you have a dealine for next week? Here's a bunch of my own arbitary personal opinions on how to completely change everything before then. There were some great people though, who offered constructive feedback, ideas for how I can expand my work, detailed explainations of how I could explore something further - those are the people to listen to, not the people who try to funnel you into a particular way of thinking/doing something. Also the whole language of architecture thing is absolute nonesense. I really worked hard to expand my working vocuabulary, and it can be useful communicating with other architects or clients, but unless it's something tangible, then it's usually just arch theory rubbish - there are innumerable frameworks for understanding a building. I cannot stand the styles debate, and just walk away whenever it's brought up for example. You're already describing what you like in your own words: shapes, beauty, order, functionality. I love those things too, it's just a case of building from there. Don't let anyone else tell you who you are. You define yourself by you actions. Do whatever you feel you have a calling to do in life. It's really as simple as that. | 0 | 17,543 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gewce | i6hc0a8 | 1,651,095,838 | 1,651,110,968 | 2 | 3 | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | Man I stopped listening to architecture professors a while ago. Unless it's someone you trust or does it part time whilst actually working in the real world, it's most likely garbage. Basically it's pretty much "if you can't teach; do", or more commonly, get a better salary spouting rubbish to youngster than what practice life offers these days. I'd say the majority of my crits, in retrospect, were just the person being as absolutely and thoroughly unhelpful as humanly possible. Oh you have a dealine for next week? Here's a bunch of my own arbitary personal opinions on how to completely change everything before then. There were some great people though, who offered constructive feedback, ideas for how I can expand my work, detailed explainations of how I could explore something further - those are the people to listen to, not the people who try to funnel you into a particular way of thinking/doing something. Also the whole language of architecture thing is absolute nonesense. I really worked hard to expand my working vocuabulary, and it can be useful communicating with other architects or clients, but unless it's something tangible, then it's usually just arch theory rubbish - there are innumerable frameworks for understanding a building. I cannot stand the styles debate, and just walk away whenever it's brought up for example. You're already describing what you like in your own words: shapes, beauty, order, functionality. I love those things too, it's just a case of building from there. Don't let anyone else tell you who you are. You define yourself by you actions. Do whatever you feel you have a calling to do in life. It's really as simple as that. | 0 | 15,130 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fq05p | i6heyw8 | 1,651,085,940 | 1,651,112,268 | 2 | 3 | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | I had a studio prof tell me I needed to think less like an artist and more like an engineer. Thought that was rich considering I was accepted into the program b/c of my artistic ability. Not surprising, but there were several other students who had issues with him and he ended up not being asked back to teach. And not long after that an engineer told me I thought like an engineer so it’s all relative. We were constantly told that school was our chance to be wild with our ideas but some profs couldn’t handle it. | 0 | 26,328 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6fuh6b | i6heyw8 | 1,651,087,715 | 1,651,112,268 | 2 | 3 | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | I had a studio prof tell me I needed to think less like an artist and more like an engineer. Thought that was rich considering I was accepted into the program b/c of my artistic ability. Not surprising, but there were several other students who had issues with him and he ended up not being asked back to teach. And not long after that an engineer told me I thought like an engineer so it’s all relative. We were constantly told that school was our chance to be wild with our ideas but some profs couldn’t handle it. | 0 | 24,553 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6heyw8 | i6g2c1z | 1,651,112,268 | 1,651,090,781 | 3 | 2 | I had a studio prof tell me I needed to think less like an artist and more like an engineer. Thought that was rich considering I was accepted into the program b/c of my artistic ability. Not surprising, but there were several other students who had issues with him and he ended up not being asked back to teach. And not long after that an engineer told me I thought like an engineer so it’s all relative. We were constantly told that school was our chance to be wild with our ideas but some profs couldn’t handle it. | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | 1 | 21,487 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6heyw8 | i6g932k | 1,651,112,268 | 1,651,093,425 | 3 | 2 | I had a studio prof tell me I needed to think less like an artist and more like an engineer. Thought that was rich considering I was accepted into the program b/c of my artistic ability. Not surprising, but there were several other students who had issues with him and he ended up not being asked back to teach. And not long after that an engineer told me I thought like an engineer so it’s all relative. We were constantly told that school was our chance to be wild with our ideas but some profs couldn’t handle it. | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | 1 | 18,843 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gewce | i6heyw8 | 1,651,095,838 | 1,651,112,268 | 2 | 3 | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | I had a studio prof tell me I needed to think less like an artist and more like an engineer. Thought that was rich considering I was accepted into the program b/c of my artistic ability. Not surprising, but there were several other students who had issues with him and he ended up not being asked back to teach. And not long after that an engineer told me I thought like an engineer so it’s all relative. We were constantly told that school was our chance to be wild with our ideas but some profs couldn’t handle it. | 0 | 16,430 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hfri5 | i6fq05p | 1,651,112,616 | 1,651,085,940 | 3 | 2 | Tell him to show you a building he designed | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | 1 | 26,676 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hfri5 | i6fuh6b | 1,651,112,616 | 1,651,087,715 | 3 | 2 | Tell him to show you a building he designed | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 24,901 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6hfri5 | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,112,616 | 2 | 3 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | Tell him to show you a building he designed | 0 | 21,835 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hfri5 | i6g932k | 1,651,112,616 | 1,651,093,425 | 3 | 2 | Tell him to show you a building he designed | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | 1 | 19,191 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6gewce | i6hfri5 | 1,651,095,838 | 1,651,112,616 | 2 | 3 | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | Tell him to show you a building he designed | 0 | 16,778 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hlzzt | i6fq05p | 1,651,115,439 | 1,651,085,940 | 3 | 2 | yeah, they're controlling and always try to make artistic people like us down I hate it tbh and idk why they do it maybe out of jealousy one of my teacher left us hanging and now my problem is very big, hope you're okay mate | I'm not an architect, even though I always wanted to be one I ended with photography. And I know, these a very different fields. But them both stand in the same thin line between art expression and technicality. In my journey as a photographer (around 15 years) I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people with tremendously different opinions. I've seen people who like at photos as a technical statement, a pure and cold dominance of the equipment focused only in the most sharp, perfect and exact image. A "extremely exact copy of the world" +. In the other side, I've seen people treat their photos as abstractions of reality, interpretations of the world in the most vague and open to interpretation ways possible. None of them where right... Or wrong. That's the thing about stand in this thin line of art and technique. The problem, as it seems to me, is that many times both sides can't seed the value and importance of the other. Learn to "speak the language" of architecture and when you became proficient on it, use it to do your way. He described you as an artist, that's a great thing. Master the techniques and don't lose sight of your way of seeing and doing things "as an artist". This thin line is an illusion. Don't let it divide you by puting you in one side or another of it. As I always say to my students: Break the rules. But first, know and master them. You are still an student. An university should be a place of experimentation, learn and pratice. Don't let one bad teacher, with such a narrow mind, put you down. ❤️ (Sorry, Portuguese speaker here) | 1 | 29,499 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hlzzt | i6fuh6b | 1,651,115,439 | 1,651,087,715 | 3 | 2 | yeah, they're controlling and always try to make artistic people like us down I hate it tbh and idk why they do it maybe out of jealousy one of my teacher left us hanging and now my problem is very big, hope you're okay mate | I went to art school. Sometimes it was rough. But if you love architecture keep studying. You have to convince people of what you are doing. Criticism can push you to better articulate your ideas. | 1 | 27,724 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g2c1z | i6hlzzt | 1,651,090,781 | 1,651,115,439 | 2 | 3 | As Stan Lee said, " If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it" It seems his roasting your taste, as long as you have a good work ethic and can produce the work needed to describe your idea, thats all that matter. The professors I had only told students they may not be up to architecture when they presented with really bad or low quality work, never because of a core idea in their project. | yeah, they're controlling and always try to make artistic people like us down I hate it tbh and idk why they do it maybe out of jealousy one of my teacher left us hanging and now my problem is very big, hope you're okay mate | 0 | 24,658 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6g932k | i6hlzzt | 1,651,093,425 | 1,651,115,439 | 2 | 3 | Professors' judgements on design are largely subjective and only minorly objective. There it is. On the other hand, so are clients. You will one day need to learn how to read clients and shape your designs to give them what they want (without producing crap). You might as well start learning that skill now and practicing on your professor. | yeah, they're controlling and always try to make artistic people like us down I hate it tbh and idk why they do it maybe out of jealousy one of my teacher left us hanging and now my problem is very big, hope you're okay mate | 0 | 22,014 | 1.5 | ||
uda0rj | architecture_train | 0.96 | My professor told me I don‘t have it. Second semester. He hates symmetry. He described me as an artist in one of the first lessions. I know I have an eye for beauty. I love shapes. But also order and fuctionality. I don‘t speak the language of architecture he says. He gave me a really bad grade. He broke me with his words. I don‘t really know what I wan‘t to hear from you guys but I thought maybe you had a similar experience and can give me some words of encouragement. | i6hlzzt | i6gewce | 1,651,115,439 | 1,651,095,838 | 3 | 2 | yeah, they're controlling and always try to make artistic people like us down I hate it tbh and idk why they do it maybe out of jealousy one of my teacher left us hanging and now my problem is very big, hope you're okay mate | I have had that happen several times while going to school. The first was at community college basic illustration class, the teacher said I should try computer programming. Later in a top ten design school I was told I don't have it. Don't you believe it, I'm at almost 25 years as a professional designer. For one thing, you're just starting out, you don't know shit and you're not supposed to. Work hard listen to the teachers who do compliment you or offer help and don't listen to the ones that run you down. Criticism is a good thing and you can learn from it but keep the overly negative stuff at arms length. At work all day long I have people shooting down my designs, that doesn't mean they're bad, it just means they have a vision of something else. If you really like what you're doing stick with it, you can get there. Good luck! | 1 | 19,601 | 1.5 |
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