the secret word

so my friend at work, who i happen to be working with on a project, was talking to a consultant of ours who was really hesitant to change part of his design. she was telling me that while she was talking to him, it seemed really unlikely that he would change... until she mentioned that one of our principals thought it would be a good idea to make this change. upon hearing his name, the consultant agreed to make the change. as she told me this part of the story she said "all i had to do was say [this principal] wants to make this change, and the consultant agreed! his name is my secret word."

"funny", i said, "when i run into that situation, i use your name, and that works for me.".

hierarchy is funny. so is lowerarchy. HAHAHA no, i know that's not a real word. seriously.

i kind of want to be someone's secret word... sometimes i think i might have that going on in studio but i'm not sure.



i decided i don't really want comments on this one... is that wrong? well, whatever. this is my blog, damn it.

how many architects....

does it take to design our own workspace? i think we have 13 involved, and we can't get it right. one thing that we did agree on is that we're not going to allow our clients to come into this haphazard mini-office... which is sort of ironic, when you think about it: shouldn't we want to show off our own work?

41%

3060 hours of 7522 total logged on the job... yes, i just found out today that my time on a particular project amounted to 41% of the total hours on the job. total. hours. on. the. job. over 2 years! the next closest person in terms of hours logged 1398-- a mere 19%.

discuss.

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um... yeah. thanks, architectural record.

game time

i really like game shows. i'm sort of sad that we do not receive the game show network at our house and as a result, if i am ever in a house that DOES get GSN, i like to watch it. last weekend i watched a few brief moments of Pyramid with Donny Osmond, the new edition of The New $25,000 Pyramid with Dick Clark. it was ok... not as good as the Dick Clark version in my opinion... and then a few minutes ago, frustrated with our client at work, a slew of "clues" rushed into my brain. here, play along.

"because you are interested in design"

"because you can afford it"

"because you you want a well-designed space"

ready for my secret clue? it's "reasons why you hire an architect".

now, try this one:

"i know more than you about how people will use this space"

"why do you care so much about this?"

"i'm paying you too much"

"you want me to pay for printing?"

"you're taking too long"

i hope you got that one too... it's "things you might tell your architect once the design (and possibly construction) process is well underway"

holy foam core!

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