Comments on Why Aren’t You People Obsessed With the Election?
My line was "look at all of these people in black who will soon be unemployed".
The problem with our profession? Summed up when an honor award went to a hole cut in the floor of an abandoned building with some fishing wire strung vertically through it. An honor award. For ARCHITETURE. We deserve to make no money and be the first to be unemployed if this is what we're giving honor awards to.
Uh, yeah, that would be ARCHITECTURE.
Election anxiety is affecting my typing.
Hope they're hanging on to their savings.
“With all of the anxiety and uncertainty in the credit market, the conditions are likely to get worse before they get better,” said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA. “Many architects are reporting that clients are delaying or canceling projects as a result of problems with project financing.”
The greenest architecture? Miles of row houses, a la Brooklyn, Baltimore, Boston's Back Bay.
The event was atrocious. The lame ass dance, the stupid "set" and all the richies salivating over libraries and hospitals. What a waste of time and money. I want my night back!
Yeah fucking libraries and hospitals. What good did they ever do for anybody.
who won Best Layoff of over 10% of staff?
PB Elemental?
Callison?
Mithun?
Weber Thompson?
@5: I'd advise against getting your architectural information from the Brady Bunch. Newsflash: Architects aren't rich.