What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

This rings very true about the many architecture students I have met. I spent a lot of time hanging about the architecture school, dropped in on lectures/debates and such. Dont think I have ever met one who really even had a "gift" for it. Every single one of them represented why mass/modern architecture in this country is so awful. In function and innovation but even aesthetics.

Everyone just churns out dull clichés, no attention to detail at all. I am sure they had grand notions of becoming some kind of wizard shaping the built environment of the future with fantastic solutions that would inspire and improve society. But really, none of them are. Instead they become "the problem" the very reason why things suck.

I know what you mean SP, but that still doesnt change the fact that really "gifted" architecture students are a rare thing indeed. I know there are talentless mongs in all areas of academics. But architecture is so vocational and so LONG. There is such a clear end goal, to be an architect!

It surprises me a lot to see that even at post grad, just how few of them actually not only know what they are doing. But will go on to innovate in the real world.

I know the industry sucks as well, economy, construction and such. But I still think a large part of the dreary and often innefficient, dysfunctional and depressing nature of British architecture falls under the responsibility of the architects themselves. I know the amount of contribution to projects they make is often small. But why? My bro and his mate got jobs at a firms after his pt1. And were given loads of responsibility detailing housing estates, new build homes, apartments and such. They did just what I see everyone doing, the absolute minimum possible to get things to "work". No effort to make these places inspiring places to live for generations, just make it work and finish on time.

Can you explain what you mean by:

" because of naysaying, suspicious, negative cunts who always think someone is trying to pull the wool over their eyes."

Shit, pointless, anecdotal, wanky doggerel.