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

she's 23!! ya gimps

Nathan Barley reference. People don't actually think she's 13

That was too far, right?

not a peado!

spotter, that hat is fucking rank!

but i want a new hat :(

Thanks, spotter...
wipes brow, does a crispin glover (clears history)

those hipster tears must hurt

Not 13! Yesss!

I would.

i guess socialising with people wearing grubby jeans was not the done thing? hopefully things have changed since then or are they still a bunch of cunts.

Josh is a cunt

And so begins a new page, headed 'Div'. I'm sure the rest of the page will live up to it.

It did!

it did?

If I had trained for 7 years in something I'd probably feel a little lofty.

I'd be a cunt.

I'm at ten years of studying/training/working. I hope I'm not too much of a cunt....

Architecture students are like virgins with an itch they cannot scratch...

Josh is a cunt

Oh stop it you tease.

I'm at ten years of studying/training/working. I hope I'm not too much of a cunt....

That's just not being a child. You don't win any loftiness points for that.

Architecture students are like virgins with an itch they cannot scratch...

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.

ODFO, FFS. What nonsense. There are talentless bullshitters on every university course in the land. To say that we're lumbered with an entire generation of architects without any grip on reality is pure, fucking, cobblers. Look deeper, smeghead.

Half the reason we're in such a pickle with architecture in this country is because of naysaying, suspicious, negative cunts who always think someone is trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Not to mention our comprehensively fucked planning system. Not to mention our fucking backward construction industry. The idea that architects are responsible for bad quality mass architecture is laughable; do you know what percentage of building undertaken in the UK actually involves architects? Yes, there are still orthodox modernist ideas floating about, with their visionary tabula rasa utopias, especially in the over-zealous environment of architecture schools, but things have been getting much, much better in recent years. There is a lot to be very optimistic about and there are extremely hard-working, sensitive graduates leaving universities every year (to face an industry where you're expected to work all hours for the greater good for fuck all money, if you manage to get a job).

I'm surprised how many people here are satisfied with their glib, ill-informed, stereotyped views.

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."

What I like is an architect who has experience of the trades. Normally a carpenter would fit the bill. Someone who isn't just a designer and can have a pretty well educated guess at how strong something is going to be. All the architects (bar one) I've met have been fanciful, overly impulsive and sometimes completely clueless about the strengths of the materials.

DFP, just how do you know?

Architecture popcorn on the hipster thread, only on LFGSS...

Please excuse my bad language. Belgian beer did it.

I liked the smeghead bit.