Good thing SMU insists the Bush Library matches campus

[couch 'em]

Otherwise we could end up with this disaster: http://quartz.he.net/~beyondch/news/index.php?itemid=5428

including no heat or AC and elevators that only stop every 3 floors. But when you consider the opinion of some modern architects:

For 70 years the preeminent and influential American architect Philip Johnson held that the profession has no functional responsibility whatsoever, and this is the prevailing view today. The most well-known architects in the west, like Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Richard Meier and I.M. Pei, see themselves as artists with no responsibility to clients or users. Their buildings are works of art and not subject to practical criticism. The position of postmodern architect Peter Eisenman is based on a user-hostile theoretical basis and even more extreme: "I don't do function." The debate about functionalism and aesthetics is often framed by them as a mutually exclusive choice, when in fact there are architects, like Will Bruder, James Polshek and Ken Yeang, who attempt to satisfy all three Vitruvian goals.

I guess it isn't surprising.

[The Spaz]

Could be worse...

[couch 'em]

Could be worse...

That looks awesome, not worse! I bet it even has a zip line!

[MrMustang1965]

Could be worse...

That looks awesome, not worse! I bet it even has a zip line!

Looks like something an Ewok would live in.

[SMU Football Blog]

The architecture school founded by Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona requires its students to live in tents of their own design the first few months. They are, as Wright said, to be the first victims of their art.

[smu diamond m]

Architects can't build buildings by themselves. It's illegal for a reason.

That being said, I can't believe we let them get away with as much as we do.


(we being the "civil engineering collective" )

[couch 'em]

Architects can't build buildings by themselves. It's illegal for a reason.

That being said, I can't believe we let them get away with as much as we do.


(we being the "civil engineering collective" )

The worst is when they want you to use some pretty fru-fru light fixture, and don't want to be told how it doesn't put out enough light to be worth a darn, and is european, and doesn't run on any standard US voltages, and couldn't be used even if it did because it isn't UL listed.

[smu diamond m]

Architects can't build buildings by themselves. It's illegal for a reason.

That being said, I can't believe we let them get away with as much as we do.


(we being the "civil engineering collective" )

The worst is when they want you to use some pretty fru-fru light fixture, and don't want to be told how it doesn't put out enough light to be worth a darn, and is european, and doesn't run on any standard US voltages, and couldn't be used even if it did because it isn't UL listed.

Like the ones above my head right now? WORTHLESS

[EastStang]

Ya mean we won't end up with something like this?

[PK]

...or this maybe.



$18 Billion development in Dubai. Four towers rangin from 54 to 97 floors. The structural design will be a nightmare.

[The Spaz]

Most likely it will look like this.....

[FWMustangGirl]

...or this maybe.



$18 Billion development in Dubai. Four towers rangin from 54 to 97 floors. The structural design will be a nightmare.

Looks like something from The Neverending Story.

[smu diamond m]

Dubai al-burj is supposedly over a kilometer tall.

[couch 'em]

Dubai al-burj is supposedly over a kilometer tall.

How tall is that in units of length?

[PK]

Well let's see. A kilometer is 1000 meters...so that's approximately 3,250 feet. Does that help? That is over 200 floors. Here is what it looks like. Supposed to be completed in 2010.



How hard would it be to hit that dude with a jet airliner?

These people have entirely too much money.