Architecture Firm Things.

"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
05/13/2019 at 14:59 • Filed to: None

We often have “ Lunch n Learns” where a rep from a company will come in and “educate” you about their project. In return you usually get an AIA Continuing Education Unit credit and free lunch. Today’s was comically bad.

Today’s rep sells polycarbonate panels. I’d met this guy at an AIA/CLC event once where he very drunkenly tried to talk to me about 4” from my face. Needless to say, I already wasn’t thrilled about the LnL once I realized it was him, but he still managed to fall below my already lowered expectations.

It became very clear very quickly that his company didn’t actually have an AIA CEU presentation, so he’d just found one online. The problem with that is that we would still have to go online and complete the test, which he’d thought of, so he went on and took the test and gave us a screenshotted answer key... so he really wasn’t doing what he’d claimed.

To add to that, it seemed like he’d only found the presentation about an hour before he showed up, but that didn’t stop him from enthusiastically reading every slide word for word.

One portion of the presentation was about aerogel insulated polycarbonate panels, and it became apparent that he’d never actually seen or sold those, but that didn’t stop him from acting like he knew about them while desperately reading the slide to try to answer questions.

Luckily he brought a ton of Mediterranean food and it was delicious so I guess it’s a net win.

If you’re an Architecture nerd check out that chart above, it’s fantastic and hilarious.

DISCUSSION (21)

TheRealBicycleBuck > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 15:01

I’ll forward it to my wife and get her to render an opinion, posthaste!

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > TheRealBicycleBuck
05/13/2019 at 15:08

I still like Paul Rudolph’s work despite this classification.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 15:18

I am reminded of this:

Kinja'd!!!

Sounds like Dude was in line for some radical candor.

Chariotoflove > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 15:19

I googled that chart, found its page, and still don’t understand it.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 15:24

I’d put Yamasaka in the cursed / fucked corner. one of my college professors said her first thought after 9/11 was that she felt bad for him because his Pruit Igo project was a complete failure and had been demo’d and then the twin towers we re destroyed. For me, the architect of the towers was pretty far down the list of people I was concerned about.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 15:25

Where is Wright? I expected upper left had corner.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Chariotoflove
05/13/2019 at 15:25

But is there anyone more pure/ cursed than Minoru Yamasaki? I think not.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > OPPOsaurus WRX
05/13/2019 at 15:27

Never has anyone tried so hard to make good architecture only to fail so badly at understanding how people interact with architecture.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/13/2019 at 15:28

FLW up to to the left.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 15:36

AestheticsInMotion > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 15:40

This just reminds me how badly I want to stumble across some Le Corbusier lounge chairs at a garage sale

facw > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 15:46

Any explanation of what the pure <-> fucked axis represents?

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > AestheticsInMotion
05/13/2019 at 16:21

That and real Eames furniture.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > facw
05/13/2019 at 16:22

Architectural purity.

AestheticsInMotion > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 16:30

Agreed.

Unfortunately this means we can't garage sale together

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > AestheticsInMotion
05/13/2019 at 16:41

We have 2 real Marcel Breuer “Wassily” chairs in our office and they’re probably worth more than i want to know.

Chariotoflove > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 18:01

Is he, like, a Lawful- Good Paladin or something?

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Chariotoflove
05/13/2019 at 22:06

He’s the Architect of both Pruitt-Igoe and the World Trade Centers.

Chariotoflove > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/13/2019 at 22:18

I saw that when I googled him. I don’t know whether pure or cursed apply. I just made a really strange D&D reference because these kinds of plots reminded me of that.

punkgoose17 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/16/2019 at 18:55

R.I.P. I M. Pei

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > punkgoose17
05/16/2019 at 18:57

I know, very sad indeed.