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... The title of this blog has to do with a Will Bruder quote I heard while attending the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) during the Fall of 1999 - "Learn to master the trash can and you might become something" - It really resonated with me and has stuck with me to this day. I suppose for me the concept hit hard that although you can discard an idea, concept, sketch, design, whatever for a certain project you may be able to revisit it at a later date under different circumstances - In other words designs never die, they evolve, they hibernate, they circle-back but they never die...Or maybe he was just telling us to quit our ideas of becoming Architects and to go live in a public park somewhere; which, given the current state of the industry probably would not have been such a bad idea...

That is what this Blog will be for me - With over a decade in the industry I have come to realize that what I thought I would be doing on a daily basis and what I actually do are pretty darn different - BUT - I still have ideas, I still have hopes and I still have my creativity; So, I figured this would be a good outlet...I will share my thoughts on work and the industry as well as whatever moments of creativity I can muster - And, yes, at the direction of my Wife I will keep the swearing to an absolute minimum.

Cheers...B.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

PRE-FAB...GAME OVER MAN:

... Um, yeah okay - This garbage has got to stop:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-dream-house-in-30-days--saving--300k-195001546.html

Do not get me wrong, I have nothing against pre-fab - Building more efficiently, producing less waste and replicating design elements and interchangeable components - But this crap is not 'Kit of Parts' design and I highly doubt (...actually, I know for a fact) that this is NOT what Joseph Paxton had in mind when he designed The Crystal Palace for the 1851 Great Exposition:


"One of these things is not like the other..."

"...One of these things just doesn't belong"

#Facepalm.

Out,
B.
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