A Life oF 'S'

You Know You're An Architect When...

1. ...the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.

2. ...you know what UHU tastes like.

3. ...you CELEBRATE space and OBSERVE your birthday.

4. ...coffee and cokes are tools, not treats.

5. ...you think it's possible to CREATE space.

6. ...you've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.

7. ...you fight with inanimate objects.

8. ...you're not seen in public

9. ...Going to bed at 3 am is early

10. ...you've used an entire roll of film to photograph the pavement

11. ...you know the exact time the vending machines are refilled.

12. ...you become excellent at recycling when making models.

13. ...when you try to communicate, you make a continuous and monotonous whine.

14. ...when someone offers you a Bic pen, you feel offended.

15. ...you combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into one single meal.

16. ...you see holidays only as extra sleeping time.

17. ...you've got more photographs of buildings than of actual people.

18. ...you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print. it's chaos.

19. ...you can use Photoshop, Illustrator and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel.

20. ...You refer to great architects (dead or alive) by their first name, as if you knew them. (Frank, Mies, Norman...)

21. ...you buy £50 magazines that you haven't read yet.

22. ...when fake light feels natural and daylight is an unusual experience


* Tomorrow Never Know. (2010). Blogger. http://livelife777.blogspot.com/. (accessed April 10, 2010).

If you are architecture students you've probably experienced:

- the taste of wood glue

- changes in your vocabulary: homework to project, ball to sphere, etc

- you don't understand how somebody can spend less than $20 at the supplies store

- you hate people telling you "go to sleep" or "do you still have a lot of work?"

- you've slept more than 20 hours on weekends

- you can easily discuss with authority the effects of caffeine on different drinks

- no matter the effort you put in a project, somebody will always say “why don’t you add this? or “why don’t you change this here? or “i think that…but…yeah, its ok?

- you’ve heard all your ipod songs in a week

- you aren’t seen in public without bags under your eyes

- you write down a quick message with rapidographs, lead holders, markers and ink

- you constantly make up excuses for courses that are not design related why you didn’t do your work

- you have more pictures of landscapes and places than of people

- your worst nightmare consists of not finishing a project

- someone once called you “lazy?” and you wanted them murdered

- you can live without human contact, sunlight, food, but if your plotter’s ink runs out… chaos!!!

- when somebody lends you a Bic pen you look down at it

- you design spectacular things without the idea of the cost

- you have the modern mark: a blister in your palm’s hand for the constant use of your mouse

- you’ve gained the ability to sleep in whatever surface: pencils, keyboards, backpacks, etc

- you always have the idea that your project will always be recognized

- when you finally have free time to go out you keep thinking
“who was the idiot that designed the restaurant’s bathroom??
“who designed this menu?? or
“who designed this [chair, table, lighting, fork, etc]?

- you've been at many sunrises, yet you've never seen one


* Tomorrow Never Know. (2010). Blogger. http://livelife777.blogspot.com/. (accessed April 10, 2010).