#Architectural imaginings
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Jerome,
thanks for the swift and interesting reply, I would just like to point out that
there are some disadvantages to working from home, for example, people
(clients) start calling you at all hours of the day and night with silly
requests/questions you dont get to talk/mull over ideas with your colleages
your partner,kids,mother,dog,etc.etc.etc all forget that you are actually
working and not just sitting in your study,den or whatever you call it
"playing" on a computer, so you get constant interuptions with requests to
…… take the dog for a walk, peel the potatoes for dinner, take the kids to
the shops or any other typical family requests that you put up with at the
weekend, oh yeah and you tend to work longer hours, including weekends,
and……….
Well whatever you get the idea……. The only really good thing is you get to
use the computer when you dont have work to do for your own idealistic purposes
and you dont have to comute to the office and back using a couple of hours a
day or more……
Oh bye the way your reply was very itresting, as a mechanical engineer I dont
know quite so much about the history/politcs of architecture as you seem to, I
would have liked to have trained as an architect but its a 7year course over
here and I just couldnt face that, also when I went to University there was a
big reccesion on and a lot of architects were having financial difficulties…
Mind you so are engineers!… <Grin> ….
Personaly I was always intrested in the architecture of medival castles, as a
boy i lived within a couple of hours drive from half a dozen very fine english
castles so that probabl fired my intrest….
Best wishes
david
>>there are some disadvantages to working from home, for example, people
(clients) start calling you at all hours of the day and night with silly
requests/questions you dont get to talk/mull over ideas with your colleages
true – but that's why it's good to have 2 lines that you can put one off to a
machine of voice mail when your "off duty"… 🙂
>>your partner,kids,mother,dog,etc.etc.etc all forget that you are actually
working and not just sitting in your study,den or whatever you call it
"playing" on a computer, so you get constant interuptions with requests to
….. take the dog for a walk, peel the potatoes for dinner, take the kids to
the shops or any other typical family requests that you put up with at the
weekend, oh yeah and you tend to work longer hours, including weekends,
and……….
Yes, that could indeed be a problem. But, living by myself, I wouldn't have
quite as many distractions from others…
>>Oh bye the way your reply was very itresting, as a mechanical engineer I dont
know quite so much about the history/politcs of architecture as you seem to, I
would have liked to have trained as an architect but its a 7year course over
here and I just couldnt face that, also when I went to University there was a
big reccesion on and a lot of architects were having financial difficulties…
Mind you so are engineers!… <Grin> ….
Yeah – wwell, with me I only had to face a SIX year course, so I just barely
made it 😉 As for the financial difficulties of architecture, you might say
that has SOMETHING to do with my interest in computer grahpics 🙂 Not to
mention that I'm not an established force in the field riding out the recession
based on my merit, but I graduated into a recession, and faced trying to get my
START in such a market. Seems the only qualification they looked at had
nothing to do with brains, but was how fast you could pick up red line
corrections on blueprints. I take that back – that skill DOES have something
to do with brains. The people on the extreme ends of the curve have trouble
doing simple corrections like that. The extremely slow – because they don't
understand it. The extremely bright – because their minds are cluttered with
higher thoughts and get intolerably bored by such mindless activity…
>>Personaly I was always intrested in the architecture of medival castles, as a
boy i lived within a couple of hours drive from half a dozen very fine english
castles so that probabl fired my intrest….
Oh, wow – that would indeed be inspirational. I didn't realize for years I
wanted to be an architect – but then, I grew up in Suburban Detroit; it's
pretty hard to get insspired by the built envirnment in the suburbs. When I
discovered the works of Frannk Ghery and Frank Lloyd Wright, my perspective
grew…