dear architects, i am sick of your shit is an open letter by annie choi to her architect friends, which is great to read (please use your sense of humor if you’re an architect!).
here’s a little excerpt:
Architects love to discuss how much sleep they have gotten. One will say how he was at the studio until five in the morning, only to return again two hours later. Then another will say, oh that is nothing. I haven’t slept in a week. And then another will say, guess what, I have never slept ever. My dear architects, the measure of how hard you’ve worked and how much you’ve accomplished is not related to the number of hours you have not slept. Have you heard of Rem Koolhaas? He is a famous architect. I know this because you tell me he is a famous architect. I hear that Rem Koolhaas is always sleeping. He is, I presume, sleeping right now. And I hear he gets shit done. And I also hear that in a stunning move, he is making a building that looks not like a glass cock, but like a concrete vagina. When you sleep more, you get vagina. You can all take a lesson from Rem Koolhaas.
apparently it was writen a year ago, and she even received some positive comment from Rem Koolhaas himself. how cool is that?
(seen on a barriga de um arquitecto)
ps – here’s a link to annie’s blog.