Comments on: Pidgin http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/ Annie Choi wants to fill your brain with words. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:30:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: arch student http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-11703 arch student Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:41:50 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-11703 annie, i just came across your letter and i LOL'd so much!! it's fantastic and it's even funnier that other architects don't find your letter at least a little amusing. hahaahahahahhahaa!!! :) annie, i just came across your letter and i LOL’d so much!! it’s fantastic and it’s even funnier that other architects don’t find your letter at least a little amusing.

hahaahahahahhahaa!!! :)

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]]> By: “dear architects, i am sick of your shit” -annie choi « ofArchitecture http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-10969 “dear architects, i am sick of your shit” -annie choi « ofArchitecture Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:35:07 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-10969 [...] after reading the letter, feel free and check out annie’s blog, the post concerning the letter is here. [...] [...] after reading the letter, feel free and check out annie’s blog, the post concerning the letter is here. [...]

]]> By: anon http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-10432 anon Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:12:03 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-10432 I'm an architect, and I love your work! I’m an architect, and I love your work!

]]> By: Adolfo Mendoza Avilés http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-8001 Adolfo Mendoza Avilés Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:10:31 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-8001 Dear Annie: I think you letter is one of the most wonderful texts I've ever read. I'm an architecture student at Mexico City. The moment I read your letter I knew I wasn't wrong about how WE architects don't hear people and do whatever our ego dictates. Two years ago you wrote this "joke" about a reality that is making our job really mere good aesthetics and """good taste""". Right now I'm trying to re-create our Architecture Weekend to be not just a showcase for architects. The purpose of this is to QUESTION what are we doing? Not to realize its good-bad... or any qualifying adjective, just as a healthy excercise everyone should do about their practice. If my proposal is accepted I would be really glad if you could just participate in, in any type even online of by your blog! Thanks for that awesome and thrilling letter! Sincererly; Adolfo Mendoza Avilés Dear Annie:

I think you letter is one of the most wonderful texts I’ve ever read. I’m an architecture student at Mexico City. The moment I read your letter I knew I wasn’t wrong about how WE architects don’t hear people and do whatever our ego dictates. Two years ago you wrote this “joke” about a reality that is making our job really mere good aesthetics and “”"good taste”"”. Right now I’m trying to re-create our Architecture Weekend to be not just a showcase for architects. The purpose of this is to QUESTION what are we doing? Not to realize its good-bad… or any qualifying adjective, just as a healthy excercise everyone should do about their practice. If my proposal is accepted I would be really glad if you could just participate in, in any type even online of by your blog!
Thanks for that awesome and thrilling letter!
Sincererly;
Adolfo Mendoza Avilés

]]> By: Liz Witt http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-7460 Liz Witt Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:16:35 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-7460 Annie, I, too, seem to know only architects. In fact, I have on multiple occasions been mistaken as the writer of your letter (which I consider to be quite flattering). I agree not all architects have enough of a sense of humor about what they do. I find that most have a lot of artsy-fartsy hot air prepared to defend their artsy-fartsy crap that regular people see and get really pissed off about. I certainly find that if one makes a joke about an architect's artsy-fartsy hot air or design crap Said Architect will not take it in stride. What Said Architect does not realize is that if non-architect friend(s) didn't have senses of humor, there would be no such thing as an architect having a non-architect friend. I consider it a small contribution to humanity to continue to be friends with broke, overtired, humorless architects and am glad that I am in good company in doing so. By the by, my sister worked in Rem Koolhaas’s Rotterdam office one summer and I have it on good authority that Rem may be well rested but he’s still rather dour. However, it was due to this office that I first saw your letter where it was posted in the kitchen and brought to me by my sister; apparently even among the architects crazy enough to work for Rem there are some with good humor—hope is not lost. Lizzie Annie,
I, too, seem to know only architects. In fact, I have on multiple occasions been mistaken as the writer of your letter (which I consider to be quite flattering).
I agree not all architects have enough of a sense of humor about what they do. I find that most have a lot of artsy-fartsy hot air prepared to defend their artsy-fartsy crap that regular people see and get really pissed off about. I certainly find that if one makes a joke about an architect’s artsy-fartsy hot air or design crap Said Architect will not take it in stride. What Said Architect does not realize is that if non-architect friend(s) didn’t have senses of humor, there would be no such thing as an architect having a non-architect friend.
I consider it a small contribution to humanity to continue to be friends with broke, overtired, humorless architects and am glad that I am in good company in doing so. By the by, my sister worked in Rem Koolhaas’s Rotterdam office one summer and I have it on good authority that Rem may be well rested but he’s still rather dour. However, it was due to this office that I first saw your letter where it was posted in the kitchen and brought to me by my sister; apparently even among the architects crazy enough to work for Rem there are some with good humor—hope is not lost.
Lizzie

]]> By: another architect http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-5713 another architect Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:54:13 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-5713 hey annie! im just another architect led to read this letter, and i have to say its the funniest shit i've read and at the same time totally true! which makes it x1000000000 funnier. actually, im not yet an architect, just one studying to become one and already do most things you whine architects do in your letter. my architecture friends find it hilarious as well, and we all love you. anyway, i really love your train of thought in the stuff you write and the style you write in.. so please write more shit about your architect friends!! and i will promise to buy your book that will give you another $2 royalty.. hey annie!
im just another architect led to read this letter, and i have to say its the funniest shit i’ve read and at the same time totally true! which makes it x1000000000 funnier.
actually, im not yet an architect, just one studying to become one and already do most things you whine architects do in your letter. my architecture friends find it hilarious as well, and we all love you.
anyway, i really love your train of thought in the stuff you write and the style you write in.. so please write more shit about your architect friends!! and i will promise to buy your book that will give you another $2 royalty..

]]> By: kp http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-4543 kp Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:46:11 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-4543 Annie, It occurred to me that I was taking a break from architecture to read about people talking about how architects never teak breaks from architecture. I don't know if this counts towards deprogramming. I have resisted reading all of these. Nice letter- going to make breakfast now. Annie,
It occurred to me that I was taking a break from architecture to read about people talking about how architects never teak breaks from architecture. I don’t know if this counts towards deprogramming. I have resisted reading all of these. Nice letter- going to make breakfast now.

]]> By: JD http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-3140 JD Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:07:53 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-3140 Just saw your open letter -- yeah, I'm late to the party. I have been in the field for over 30 years and want you to know two things: 1) Your impressions & observations are perfect. 2) Most architects are assholes. The really sad thing is that your friends are stuck in a world that more closely resembles school than a place where adults contribute to society, make a living and raise families. From the day I left architecture school I left that bullshit behind -- Thank God! I couldn't handle it in school. The flvor-of-the-month foreign decon or Miami wonderkind. What a bunch of crap. And don't even get me started about all the nonsensical ways solme guys like to describe their creations... "...the space evokes a sense of holistic being that transcends life itself..." WTF! Thanks again. PS: I grew up in The Valley too. Just saw your open letter — yeah, I’m late to the party.

I have been in the field for over 30 years and want you to know two things:

1) Your impressions & observations are perfect.

2) Most architects are assholes.

The really sad thing is that your friends are stuck in a world that more closely resembles school than a place where adults contribute to society, make a living and raise families.

From the day I left architecture school I left that bullshit behind — Thank God! I couldn’t handle it in school. The flvor-of-the-month foreign decon or Miami wonderkind. What a bunch of crap.

And don’t even get me started about all the nonsensical ways solme guys like to describe their creations…

“…the space evokes a sense of holistic being that transcends life itself…”

WTF!

Thanks again.

PS: I grew up in The Valley too.

]]> By: ‘Dear Architects, I Am Sick Of Your &$%#@.’ « The Pompomist http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-3027 ‘Dear Architects, I Am Sick Of Your &$%#@.’ « The Pompomist Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:40:10 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/07/22/pidgin/#comment-3027 [...] ‘Dear Architects, I Am Sick Of Your &$%#@.’ Posted on December 18, 2007 by Jamie Many architecture blogs have posted this controvertial article. Annie Choi, from the Annie Choi blog, wrote this open letter on Part IV to all architects out there… don’t take it personal! I didn’t. I actually made me laugh: “Once, a long time ago in the days of yore, I had a friend who was studying architecture to become, presumably, an architect. This friend introduced me to other friends, who were also studying architecture. Then these friends had other friends who were architects - real architects doing real architecture like designing luxury condos that look a lot like glass dildos. And these real architects knew other real architects and now the only people I know are architects. And they all design glass dildos that I will never work or live in and serve only to obstruct my view of New Jersey. Do not get me wrong, architects. I like you as a person. I think you are nice, smell good most of the time, and I like your glasses. You have crazy hair, and if you are lucky, most of it is on your head. But I do not care about architecture. It is true. This is what I do care about:* burritos * hedgehogs * coffee [...] [...] ‘Dear Architects, I Am Sick Of Your &$%#@.’ Posted on December 18, 2007 by Jamie Many architecture blogs have posted this controvertial article. Annie Choi, from the Annie Choi blog, wrote this open letter on Part IV to all architects out there… don’t take it personal! I didn’t. I actually made me laugh: “Once, a long time ago in the days of yore, I had a friend who was studying architecture to become, presumably, an architect. This friend introduced me to other friends, who were also studying architecture. Then these friends had other friends who were architects – real architects doing real architecture like designing luxury condos that look a lot like glass dildos. And these real architects knew other real architects and now the only people I know are architects. And they all design glass dildos that I will never work or live in and serve only to obstruct my view of New Jersey. Do not get me wrong, architects. I like you as a person. I think you are nice, smell good most of the time, and I like your glasses. You have crazy hair, and if you are lucky, most of it is on your head. But I do not care about architecture. It is true. This is what I do care about:* burritos * hedgehogs * coffee [...]

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