i'll give you a dollar if you can explain this to me so it actually makes sense...

[welfareloser]

the vision/mission statement of an architecture firm...

"The firm focuses on exploring new ways in which the inhabited 'landscape' might be activated to reconstruct the space by interweaving a flirtatious indeterminacy into the formulation of architecture attained through examining limits of various trajectories and their relative acceleration, and determining means of transgressing static restraints; underpinning content, container and context in a new contingent coalescence."

right. nice job of using big words to say nothing. i can see now why my sister and her fiance are ready to go to war against "intellectual" architects... more BS than you can shake a flirtatious stick at :rolleyes:

(that's from http://www.arch.wustl.edu/index.lasso?pgID=177&bID=3435 btw...)

[zero2dash]

Somebody's been playing with the thesaurus in Microsoft Word again...:ptlaugh:

[welfareloser]

Somebody's been playing with the thesaurus in Microsoft Word again...:ptlaugh:

and that might well be the best explanation available :hihi:

[mcs328]

Create a room where people can see each other without obstruction from their seats and if they wish get up and meet each other in the fastest way possible and then talk in an area that promotes hooking up.

[Paymaster]

Welfareloser will give you another dollar if you can tell us what this company does:


Global Technologies & Innovation Corporation is in the business of deploying technological innovations to promote wealth creation and economic growth in the Americas. Global Technologies & Innovation Corporation offers client retained customizable consulting services catered to satisfy our client’s specific needs.

These services are provided through Global Technologies & Innovation Corporation's locations across the United States and Central America; as well as through our corporate strategic partners.


From: http://www.gtandi.com/mission.htm

[Grimm]

the vision/mission statement of an architecture firm...

"The firm focuses on exploring new ways in which the inhabited 'landscape' might be activated to reconstruct the space by interweaving a flirtatious indeterminacy into the formulation of architecture attained through examining limits of various trajectories and their relative acceleration, and determining means of transgressing static restraints; underpinning content, container and context in a new contingent coalescence."

right. nice job of using big words to say nothing. i can see now why my sister and her fiance are ready to go to war against "intellectual" architects... more BS than you can shake a flirtatious stick at :rolleyes:

(that's from http://www.arch.wustl.edu/index.lasso?pgID=177&bID=3435 btw...)
The build stuff where it fits and looks good. They charge a lot of money for it and want people to think they are smarter than they really are.

Where's my dollar?
The purpose of language is to communicate. When you deliberately obfuscate your meaning you are defeating the purpose of communication and are, there for, an idiot.

[Hiro]

Holy run on sentence, Batman!

[Jeffbx]

"The firm focuses on exploring new ways in which the inhabited 'landscape' might be activated to reconstruct the space by interweaving a flirtatious indeterminacy into the formulation of architecture attained through examining limits of various trajectories and their relative acceleration, and determining means of transgressing static restraints; underpinning content, container and context in a new contingent coalescence."


I'm pretty sure it means they're going to make extensive use of track lighting.

[Kevster]

To quote 'History of the world, Part I':

'Dole Office Clerk: Occupation?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher.
Dole Office Clerk: What?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher. I coalesce the vapors of human existence into a viable and meaningful comprehension.
Dole Office Clerk: Oh, a *bull$h1t* artist!
Comicus: Hmmmmmm...
Dole Office Clerk: Did you bull$h1t last week?
Comicus: No.
Dole Office Clerk: Did you try to bull$h1t last week?
Comicus: Yes!'

[attgig]

The firm focuses on exploring new ways
the firm focuses on exploring new ways

in which the inhabited 'landscape' might be activated
in which the persons' surroundings might be made alive

to reconstruct the space
by re-architecting

by interweaving a flirtatious indeterminacy
and screwing your wife

into the formulation of architecture
while you pay me thousands of dollars

attained through examining limits of various trajectories and their relative acceleration,
to shoot you know what into your wife's you know where

and determining means of transgressing static restraints;
and running out of the house buck nekkid when you surprise us by coming back early

underpinning content, container and context in a new contingent coalescence."
and thus, creating the happy household.

[ArkiStan]

LMAO! This is sooooo funny! :D This is so typical of architectural "academics," and I've seen some pretty incoherent statements made by them in my time at school, but I've gotta say, this one is an instant classic!

Fascinating isn't it? It's the stuff we architecture students have to deal with everyday, and in very heavy doses. Who would have thought something as tangible as architecture could be so highly reliant on mumbo jumbo? Sometimes people manage to pull it off with such profundity that you can't help but to be intellectually stimulated. But some, as is the case with WL's quote, can't quite pull it off and simply make you want to puke.

[ArkiStan]

This is a hilarious little article by a UPenn grad student that sums up what I was saying. Hilarious stuff.

http://www.archinect.com/schoolblog/entry.php?id=32374_0_39_0_C