Arquitektuur versus Architecture.

Adam Weiss · 2005-10-07T03:07:28+00:00

Arquitektuur is what you learn in modern architecture school. Words - the theoretical writings of Jacques Derrida. Pretty pictures - abstract enough to be called architecture even though they are really abstract paintings. Movies - the art house kind with lots of weird imagery and weak or no plot.Architecture is something very different. Construction sciences - how a roof has to be put together in order for it to keep the rain out. The law - egress and accessibility. Management - how to get contractors to do what you want them to. Business - how to keep the building from going way over budget and how to keep yourself and your firm employed. The list goes on and on. And, this is where it gets abstract, the art and theory of arquitektuur plays a roll in it in allowing architects to do something (be artists) that engineers and clients usually can't do.

Oct 07, 2005 21 Replies

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Pierre Levesque, AIA 20 years ago

All words spoken like a future self-employed-almost-always broke future self-employed architect...

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Adam Weiss 20 years ago

I dream of that. I dream of having my own firm and maybe, someday and somehow, having a few (or a dozen or so) fellow members of the firm.

And I also dream of, perhaps, taking over an architecture school. A non violent coup d'etat if you will. Boy things would change. I just hope none of the redundant theorists hires a hit-man to off me before I can accomplish my goals.... :-)

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