February 2012
4 posts
02/23/12
“You know what she wants. You should just give it to her.”
02/08/12
“I feel like if you’re not sitting on the tentacles, you’re so sad.”
02/07/12
“stains are fascinating”
December 2011
9 posts
soccerspeak
“if gsapp was a soccer team, we would be barcelona. we are very good at picking our players.”
gsapp
“$40K a year, snacks not included”
parkitecture
“whats the difference between this elephant and your building?”
12/6/11
“I don’t understand what the hell I’ve been reviewing.” -Tod Williams
it's finals week
“i’m not a human anymore, i’m just a blob…of flesh”
good luck folks!
hernan
“i care about my own success more than i care about the discipline’s success.”
12/1/11
“in the interest of time, let’s just have him walk across a giant teapot”
11/29/11
“modernity becomes scarce, and scarcity is rich”
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“Your wall is Woody Allen.”
November 2011
28 posts
more maas
“in the UK, everything’s cute”
on sections..
“if you cut an apple perpendicular to gravity, it becomes a star”
hydroponics 101
“It would be better to say you’re going to bring in cows that, you know, shit a lot, and they also make milk.
And then you make food”
maas speak
“give me a piece of mr. C”
11/29/11
“as architects, we are able to produce excess out of nothing”
11/29/11
“let the program come at you”
political speak...
#OCCUPYGSAPP
11/28/11
“the primary genesis of the project is located and directly derived from the paper model and the lines located within”
11/28/11
“will somebody please wake up the gentleman sleeping against the wall and tell him about the final paper”
11/21/11
“parametric is an assault on the metrical”
11/21/11
“stand up there and blather about what you want”
make bullshit →
speak generator
11/22/11
“FORM FOLLOWS CAPITAL”
11/22/11
“LANGUAGE PRODUCTION MACHINE”
11/21/11
“to the degree architecture has the necessity to become a fortress, it has the capacity to be a fortress for water…alien material circulating around…ponding…swamping…”
11/21/11
“it doesn’t, but you do, therefore it will”
11/21/11
“my question was more of a curiosity”
11/21/11
“in architecture, you either teach the dog or beat it into submission.”
11/16/11
“i hate people”
“i mean i hate people in renderings”
“i also hate trees”
11/8/11
“your question of orientation could be addressed by simply knowing that the material surfaces of building need to be in several orientations”
11/18/11
“Don’t talk to me before I’ve had my desk crit, or while I’m having my desk crit, or after I’ve had my desk crit.”
11/16/11
“i was wondering if you have any like…fantasies about inventions that would happen in the realm of like..physics..or like materials or things like that and if that application like you’re anticipating something like that”
11/16/11
“i was wondering about what you think about the tectonics of architecture and materiality and how that relates to the direction of work you are going towards, just in terms of the…look of it..is much more monocoque to use Greg Lynn’s term, but what do you think of how materiality relates to the future of your architecture”
11/7/11
“aggregation is a joining of surfaces as variable material intensities; the surfaces’ internal intervals, and their participation in the field of pressures are crucial to the ways in which they join”
11/7/11
“these similarities or continuities occur at the level information and observation made evident in the documents, they are also found in the methods, techniques, apparatus involved in producing this evidence”