“Architecture students are known for their creative, um, madness,” writes our submitter. “Combine that with severe sleep deprivation, and voilà!” Among the architecture master’s students who share this studio, our submitter says, this masterpiece of a note has already become legend.
related: Untitled — Broken Glass
extra credit: Architorture School
60 responses so far ↓
#1
GFL
Snarky-tecture.
Feb 25, 2013 at 5:14 am rating: 68
#2
Silence
They’re obviously not very good at…
:::puts on sunglasses:::
…building healthy relationships.
YYYYYEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Feb 25, 2013 at 6:51 am rating: 87
#3
Purr Monster
My brother attended an Ivy League school to study architecture several decades ago. It was appallingly cut-throat, and I can’t imagine that it’s gotten any better (maybe it has? who knows). Students would destroy other students’ work. Team note-writer.
Feb 25, 2013 at 7:56 am rating: 34
#4
H for Toy
Don’t incite me to fight with you.
Don’t goad me on to destroy you.
Don’t be a menace to South Central while drinking your juice in the hood.
Feb 25, 2013 at 8:06 am rating: 58
#5
Mark
Well, i think we found a crappy Architect.
Yes, i understand the no touching policy. However, the entire point of the studio format is to get feedback form your peers. Advice, comments, and questions from studiomates was ALWAYS welcome, both when I did my BA and MA. Shutting out your peers like means not only that you are afraid what you are doing is crap, but also that you are unwilling to learn and get better. You are with your professor 1-on-1 maybe 45min a week, but you are in your studio 20 hours a day. Take advantage.
Feb 25, 2013 at 8:22 am rating: 21
#6
RODGD
How much more insane will the subject become when the only design work that Architecture Degree will get them will be doing pretty pictures on Starbucks foam.
Feb 25, 2013 at 9:28 am rating: 7
#7
Ace of Space
This note is just delicious. It makes me want to thrust my nose into it. It’s different unlike me.
Feb 25, 2013 at 9:57 am rating: 26
#8
Roto13
So yeah, there’s about a 0% chance I’d be able to read that sign and then *not* glance at the model and dry heave.
Feb 25, 2013 at 10:15 am rating: 28
#9
pseudony mousie
There’s just something about the formatting of that note that makes me think the inside dimensions of that model are half a millimeter larger than the outside dimensions.
It’s pretty clear that staying away from it is the safest course of action, at least.
Feb 25, 2013 at 10:16 am rating: 24
#10
Dana
If i were reading that sign i would leave a load or red pen corrections behind to correct the grammar !
He can draw / design but he can’t write !!
Feb 25, 2013 at 10:18 am rating: 6
#11
Raichu
I know some archies at my school and they’re all really cool. But they DO spend like, half their life in their studio (including often sleeping there – they literally have cots there) so it doesn’t surprise me that some people would be driven to snap, if they were already crabby people.
Feb 25, 2013 at 10:26 am rating: 5
#12
Yussuyer
Surely there’s a message hidden in the blue/red/italic/bolded/underlined font thought right?
The “don’t”s are all red, but then there’s a “none” that’s red also! What brings him/her to make some threats simply bold, and others bold AND italic?!! there must be a reason!
“If I find out that you touch this model, I will definitely touch yours” is just sinister
Feb 25, 2013 at 11:05 am rating: 16
#13
Gray
Ooh, kinky. Touch me, model maker. Touch mine like I touch yours. *swoon*
Feb 25, 2013 at 11:10 am rating: 25
#14
kermit
Hasn’t someone already invented an impenetrable dome to protect architecture models and prevent people from messing with it? And it somebody really hasn’t invented one, aren’t architecture models practically obsolete now that computer modelling/visualization software is so good at giving people a feeling for what the building is supposed to look like?
Feb 25, 2013 at 11:25 am rating: 2
#15
unPC
he must be a Mac user! lol
Feb 25, 2013 at 11:27 am rating: 1
#16
Rene
Writer is obviously unaware that they are basically daring people touch it & run away giggling…at least that’s what I would do.
Feb 25, 2013 at 11:45 am rating: 17
#17
pooham
Don’t think about touching it. Don’t speak about touching it. Don’t think about speaking about touching it.
Feb 25, 2013 at 11:48 am rating: 24
#18
So
I would not trust any architect who doesn’t notice that he has changed font half way through his note!
Feb 25, 2013 at 11:48 am rating: 14
#19
m9
do not taunt happy fun model (speaking of which, i so badly want to see this thing now).
Feb 25, 2013 at 12:27 pm rating: 19
#20
H for Toy
I paid a lot of money for this call gi… er… model! DON’T TOUCH HER! SHE’S MINE!
Feb 25, 2013 at 12:55 pm rating: 2
#21
Mushroom
How much says this model isn’t that different from the others — or is impractical for its purpose, ars gratia artis?
Feb 25, 2013 at 1:14 pm rating: 3
#22
Limeliberator
I would have incited him to fight but that “don’t goad me on to destroy you” part made me think better of it.. I mean, this seems like the kind of person who would remove his model and then set the entire studio on fire just to make a point.
Feb 25, 2013 at 2:18 pm rating: 25
#23
courtney
I feel such a strong urge to go touch his model then taunt him because I have no model for him to revenge-touch.
Feb 25, 2013 at 2:24 pm rating: 10
#24
KittenPlaysTheViolin
Why is this note centered? It should be bulleted on the left. Grrr.
Feb 25, 2013 at 3:07 pm rating: 4
#25
Oedipa
A fight with this person might be interesting to watch. I’m picturing whole model villages being put to the torch, or smashed using catapults built perfectly to scale. Maybe a Trojan horse.
Feb 25, 2013 at 6:03 pm rating: 11
#26
Dane Zeller
I would have placed a title, centered on the note, in, let’s say, 124 point type. It would say:
TOUCH MY MODEL
That would be the only way I would not touch the model. Do = Don’t. Don’t = Do.
Feb 25, 2013 at 6:06 pm rating: 3
#27
tschichold
That is some crazy ass typography … this person is either gonna turn out to be the greatest architect ever or die alone in a ditch. No half measures with with frank lloyd fright here…
Feb 25, 2013 at 7:05 pm rating: 18
#28
Kenzie
That last bit got pretty intense…
Feb 25, 2013 at 8:25 pm rating: 1
#29
snarchitect
I love this title like crazy. I just wish this submission had been held and posted a few weeks later!
Feb 25, 2013 at 9:35 pm rating: 4
#30
Bee Good
The only bigger asshole than an engineer is an architect. At least engineers can get their plans to close.
Feb 26, 2013 at 9:12 am rating: 0
#31
All my architectural heroes are now dust
Seriously. I was raised to respect architects. Mr. Brady and his clever split level house and the way he looked so groovy and obviously made the big bucks, enough so that he could have a live-in maid like Alice…These were the stuff of my imaginings when it came to architects. I know that George on Seinfeld felt the same way. Architects, now THEY were a breed apart, a glorious culmination of art and practicality, living breathing ART that you could live and breathe in. Now, all is dust. Architects aren’t the special class of people I used to think they were. They are catty, spiteful, and walk around touching each other’s models to spite them and shaking their head and sighing as they look at them even when they aren’t touching them. I don’t know if I will ever be able to watch the Brady Bunch EVER again without wondering about Mr. Brady’s shady past.
Feb 26, 2013 at 9:29 am rating: 18
#32
MissDragonMage
This is an interesting way to try to keep people from attacking your work. . . although I completely agree with him.
As for his grammar/spelling, I quote a friend of mine who is an electrical engineering major and who cannot spell to save his life. “I MAKE THINGS WITH MATH”. Unfortunately, those with a math brain can have a hard time with spelling. Team Note Writer
Feb 26, 2013 at 11:00 am rating: 1
#33
sambycat
I don’t like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meat-hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you. Also, I don’t like nobody touching me. Now, any of you homos touch me, and I’ll kill you.
Lighten. Up. Francis.
Feb 26, 2013 at 5:50 pm rating: 4
#34
harold
I can totally see how goading this person could be a lot of fun.
Feb 26, 2013 at 9:13 pm rating: 4
#35
redheadwglasses
Architects are my client.
This student will make a perfect architect. I look forward to dealing with this pain in the ass in the future.
Feb 28, 2013 at 11:28 am rating: 2
#36
Ammy
Wow. The note is almost a piece of art in itself, with all the different colours and alternating between cursive, bold, cursive bold, underlined, underlined cursive and normal.
Mar 17, 2013 at 8:21 pm rating: 0
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