Architectonic Ambiance
The alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
You’re not ashamed of drooling in class anymore,
especially during Structures & Theory lectures
You know what Superglue tastes like.
You celebrate space and ignore your birthdays
Coffee and Red Bull are tools, not treats.
People are nauseated just by smelling your
caffeine breath.
You are surprised when you see a new building
in your school.
You think it’s possible to create space.
You’ve slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a
single weekend.
You fight with inanimate objects.
You’ve fallen asleep in the bathroom.
Your brother or sister thinks he or she is an only
child.
You’ve listened to all your CDs in less than 48
hours.
You’re not seen in public.
You lose your house keys for a week and you
don’t even notice.
You’ve brushed your teeth and washed your hair
in the university’s bathroom.
You’ve discovered the benefits of having none or
very short hair, and you’ve started to appreciate
inheriting baldness.
You’ve used an entire role of film to photograph
the footpath.
You know the exact time the vending machines
are refilled.
You always carry your deodorant.
You become excellent at recycling when making
models.
When you try to communicate, you make a
continuous and monotonous whine.
You’ve danced YMCA with excellent
choreography at 3 am and without a single drop of
alcohol in your body.
You take notes and leave messages with
butterpaper and colour markers.
You combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into
one single meal.
You see holidays only as extra sleeping time.
You’ve got more photographs of buildings than of
actual people.
You’ve taken your girlfriend (boyfriend) on a date
to a construction site.
You’ve realised that French curves are not that
exciting.
You can live without human contact, food or
daylight, but if you can’t print it’s chaos.
When you’re being shown pictures of a trip, you
ask about the human scale.
You can use Photoshop, Illustrator and make a
web page, but you don’t know how to use Excel.
You refer to great architects (dead or alive) by
their first name as if you knew them (Frank, Corbu,
Mies, Norman,Zaha, Bernard).
You buy 50 dollars worth of magazines that you
haven’t read yet.
When someone offers you a Bic pen, you feel
offended.
Architectural lingo is your everyday language.
You see the normal buildings that most people like as disgusting, foul and unsightly.
You buy theoretical books that most people regard as firewood.
Coffee is your official drink
Sleep is not an option, its a luxury.
Space is no longer a simple word, its a world by itself.
You are talking to yourself about space as if you are obsessed with it.
Form cannot be seperated from Function anymore.
CAD programe is your best friend.
25 hours in a day is not enough and you always wish you have more time.
Holidays and breaks means doing assigments at home rather then at studios.
More or less, less is always more?
……to be added later
-Fysh-
