A Place of Sense

Calvin’s father always had the best answers. I remember reading this as a kid and really hoping they test bridges this way. Reality continues to ruin my life.

 For anyone who love Calvin and Hobbes as much as I do, there is the complete set available from Amazon.  It’s not just a cartoon, it’s a complete philosophy for living.

Movies for Architects, by Blair Fink

Dirty Rotten Spandrels

Stucco on You

Girder, My Sweet

The Bad News Barriers

Take the LEED

Battman

The Gable Guy

Flashingdance

Requiem for a Beam

Gone With the Windows

You Got Surveyed

A great website “Notes on Becoming A Famous Architect” has brought us a fun, historic entry from the Princeton School of Architecture.

Notes on Becoming a Famous Architect

Or as PDF: JackvArchitect.pdf

Engineers are conservative by nature, and while this makes everyone safer it sometimes causes conflict with our architect brethren. I have absolutely no idea who did this so I can’t attribute credit.

Insert Spider-Man joke here…

Sting planned on radioactive wasp nests at Hanford

Archinect proposes new LEED certification level:

LEED has unveiled a new level of certification, Protactinium.

In order to qualify for the standard, building designers must commit to a lifetime of celibacy and staff the building exclusively with doe-eyed orphans from third world countries. The building must be a net CO2 sink, producing more oxygen than it consumes. Any bamboo used in construction must be certified panda-free. In the event that straw bale construction is used, the straw must be free-range, sustainably harvested straw.

The building must also levitate above the ground to preserve the site for future use. Only free-range, sustainably harvested electromagnets may be used to levitate the building. The electromagnets should also give back 10% of their energy to levitate doe-eyed orphans in third world countries.