Responding to msg by sp43@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Stephen Perrella) on
May I hitch a ride on this wagon, bullet train? We do at
least three types of architecture, and looking for more.
One. Our anonymous money-making office does indeed do the
work David Sucher ascribes to the architect: we sell our
services to those who pay us and we get as much for this as
possible in the give and take of the commercial system
setting the rules of real estate architecture -- that is,
the kind that is defined primarily by financial and legal
strictures, property lines, contracts, codes and all the
holy
scripture sectarian money and law propounds. Budgets,
schedules, programs, licensing, disputes, ulcers. AIA,
NCARB, NIAE, all the mainstream professional puke. Usually
humorless. Makes bucks but sucks. Produces low
self-esteem and compensatory addictions. Teaches how to
make the system work, such as it is.
Two. Our group Urban Deadline works just beyond the
fringes of the commercial world where scavenging and
self-help and derring-do and outlawyering gets work done in
ways sacrilegious to financial and legal scripture. The
ways that apparently have always paralleled the commercial
world and its state infrastructure. As far as we can see
the commercial world has no interest in this fringe,
execept, to be sure, to try to contain it and otherwise
avow irresponsibility. On the contrary it uses the state
to erect barriers of protection and privilege -- law and
order. This is our architecture of public or community
service, political, social, controversial, hell-raising,
highly educational. Bitterly humorous. No bucks but
liberating and constantly humbling. Requires the learning
of unconventional systems. More difficult than
professional practice.
Three. Some of us continue to find time to float above the
terrain of the first two, somewhere in the ether in which
Stephen places Zaha and others -- and more power to those
adventurers. Architecture as a discourse, as a way to
understand and interplay with a bewildering world, as a way
to concoct new worlds and to plot to bring them into
confrontation with, undermine, the hidebound legal and
financial status quo. No career, no client, no public, no
private, no self, no budget, no schedule, no program. The
stuff dreams are made of, funny, hilarious. The best.
Nobody should ever pay for or get paid to do this. The Net
fits this category, for the moment, but it should be useful
for the other two. Very high self-esteem, out of this
world (Howard Roark -- master egotist, eat your heart out,
how could Ayn Rand ever have been such a small-minded
libertarian petty capitalist).
This third type is the mother and father lode for the other
two, and more on the way, we pray. The first two would
wither without it, and leave only property and its
temporary owners' police and squatters fighting each other.
So Stephen is absolutely correct to stake the mega-galatic
claim as he does. And his language is mega-perfect for
that -- adventuresome, difficult, arcane, witty (to me),
etheral, priceless and against the laws of property and
cartesianism and decency and fairness and honor, I hope.
Anything less will be beaten or bought off or stolen by the
F&L RE sweeties.
Well done, spn.
You, too, David, for stirring the pot. Still waiting for
you to
tell us more about how the underside of money and law of
real estate architecture works. No more hiding behind HRH
and handlers cloaktails now. How did they get so rich?
May I hitch a ride on this wagon, bullet train? We do at
least three types of architecture, and looking for more.
One. Our anonymous money-making office does indeed do the
work David Sucher ascribes to the architect: we sell our
services to those who pay us and we get as much for this as
possible in the give and take of the commercial system
setting the rules of real estate architecture -- that is,
the kind that is defined primarily by financial and legal
strictures, property lines, contracts, codes and all the
holy
scripture sectarian money and law propounds. Budgets,
schedules, programs, licensing, disputes, ulcers. AIA,
NCARB, NIAE, all the mainstream professional puke. Usually
humorless. Makes bucks but sucks. Produces low
self-esteem and compensatory addictions. Teaches how to
make the system work, such as it is.
Two. Our group Urban Deadline works just beyond the
fringes of the commercial world where scavenging and
self-help and derring-do and outlawyering gets work done in
ways sacrilegious to financial and legal scripture. The
ways that apparently have always paralleled the commercial
world and its state infrastructure. As far as we can see
the commercial world has no interest in this fringe,
execept, to be sure, to try to contain it and otherwise
avow irresponsibility. On the contrary it uses the state
to erect barriers of protection and privilege -- law and
order. This is our architecture of public or community
service, political, social, controversial, hell-raising,
highly educational. Bitterly humorous. No bucks but
liberating and constantly humbling. Requires the learning
of unconventional systems. More difficult than
professional practice.
Three. Some of us continue to find time to float above the
terrain of the first two, somewhere in the ether in which
Stephen places Zaha and others -- and more power to those
adventurers. Architecture as a discourse, as a way to
understand and interplay with a bewildering world, as a way
to concoct new worlds and to plot to bring them into
confrontation with, undermine, the hidebound legal and
financial status quo. No career, no client, no public, no
private, no self, no budget, no schedule, no program. The
stuff dreams are made of, funny, hilarious. The best.
Nobody should ever pay for or get paid to do this. The Net
fits this category, for the moment, but it should be useful
for the other two. Very high self-esteem, out of this
world (Howard Roark -- master egotist, eat your heart out,
how could Ayn Rand ever have been such a small-minded
libertarian petty capitalist).
This third type is the mother and father lode for the other
two, and more on the way, we pray. The first two would
wither without it, and leave only property and its
temporary owners' police and squatters fighting each other.
So Stephen is absolutely correct to stake the mega-galatic
claim as he does. And his language is mega-perfect for
that -- adventuresome, difficult, arcane, witty (to me),
etheral, priceless and against the laws of property and
cartesianism and decency and fairness and honor, I hope.
Anything less will be beaten or bought off or stolen by the
F&L RE sweeties.
Well done, spn.
You, too, David, for stirring the pot. Still waiting for
you to
tell us more about how the underside of money and law of
real estate architecture works. No more hiding behind HRH
and handlers cloaktails now. How did they get so rich?