lovely coincidence

The song was just started...

     "Ninety miles outside Chicago, can't stop driving I don't know why.
     So many questions that needed answer, two years of waiting you still on my mind..."

when you called.

Humane architecture magazine

Everytime I bought architecture and interior design magazine, all I got is high-end furniture and expensive ideas. Maybe someday I might create a magazine that informs cheap and high-quality stuff...IF I would end up being an editor.... T_T

Well I hope I become an architect first... *fingerscrossed

Thoughts-nado: architecture education flaws

....reading my title....lol...it is inspired by the word twisting jokes in Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2...

I've been thinking. A lot lately, actually. I think it's because we are pass the deadlines and stuff.

Something has bothering my mind. Sometimes the educational system in architecture institution can be undetermined. Well at least in my place, it is.

Sometimes, we are encourage to create something that support the mission of the design. But when we actually pull it off the lectures and mentors puts down an indisputable argument to bring it down. The thing is, the argument is a contra to the first concept. For example, in the previous task we were encourage to set out a decent public urban space. Of course it would be something outdoor, or at least accessible by public. When I actually design an enormous open space for public (my task was a rental office) in the first floor, my mentor told me that the owner of the building will be at a great loss because that part will be unprofitable.

Back then I was just nodding to whatever they say. Now I would ask. They are the ones encouraging public space for urban people in the first place. So that means providing public place in the building and or site. Of course we shouldn't expect some profit. I mean make up your mind first before you push us to make ours, when you want a building that serve people without benefit, don't design a building based on the profit it would make. But when you want a building that gives you plenty of money, don't play saint and design a building with some public place.

This kind of dilemma also appears in my ongoing task, the middle-low class apartment or vertical housing. I induce a concept where the dwellers has a variant room which can be modified into a little shop. In my country it is called warung or warteg. I created such opportunity based on what I saw from surveying the current site. The people there make use of front rooms in their house to make a living. They don't need extra cost for it so that's how things going to be exactly in my design. A cost-free opportunity to make a living in the vertical housing. But then their respond is that it wouldn't be profitable for the apartment management. If I lose it, I would just point out that the one who's living up there in the unit is the PEOPLE not the OWNER of the building.

I think it is important for an architect to stand for his or her ground. It is needed that the architect is oriented to one side of the story, is it the developer?the building user?the urban community?environment? there's no right or wrong when you do that because no matter what concept you have there's going to be a loss on someone's side. At least that's some lesson I'm gonna hold on to...what do you think?

Anyway I've been a lovefool lately...I'm sort of becoming someone's third person while I'm just considering him a good friend. Well I do have a crush on him but hey, his someone's (husband, yes, HUSBAND) and I am also someone's (no, I'll rephrase that: someone is already MINE).

But then someone else have been disturbing my mind, as always. For the last two years. Hmph, some sweet story are just meant to be a mere memory. Made me realize, not all true love goes on. Some are just not ment to be realized and continued... :(

My future architect firm's name would be Mein Zimmer

I'm beginning to think that I'm going to be the architect version of Hitler.

Everytime I suggest something useful, it seems that everybody on that discussion think that I'm being bossy. Authoritarian, they say... But everytime, I mean EVERYTIME, my other teammate says exactly the same thing as I said before, the others says its clever!

Well it's not like it's new to me. It has been my everyday menu since I'm in college. At first I thought that it's my cranky face when I talk seriously. But then I realize, some people are just plain weak...