Shäron Löm, founder of niche architectural satire site Pespokey, was completely overwhelmed by her inbox on Monday morning. Her Gmail was full of job offers from top architectural firms as well as requests for dates from a series of celebrities and other hot people after they stumbled upon Pespokey. Continue reading
Crap! You spent your entire week watching every single one of Tom Hanks’ movies and now you don’t have any of those models due tomorrow. Not to worry, these items scattered around your bedroom floor could probably pass as concept models: Continue reading
The seventeenth season of popular homebuilding show Grand Designs is to consist solely of Kevin McCloud berating rich white couples. Continue reading
Good grades are definitely the most important thing in architecture school. Nothing else matters! And as everyone knows, the secret to good grades in architecture school is not hard work but a good knowledge of Chinese geomancy. Continue reading
Who better to design for a natural or political disaster than a privileged architecture student who lives in a completely different part of the world and has no understanding of that physical or cultural environment at all?! Here are 4 assignment briefs that (you think) will make you look good: 1. A School In Sichuan In … Continue reading
An awkward silence concluded an anonymous architecture student’s crit on Tuesday, with all three reviewers and other spectators knowing fully well their work was absolute shit. Visiting architect Tamsin Singh was the first to break the uncomfortable silence, “You’ve used a lovely font,” she said to the oblivious student. “They looked like they were going to … Continue reading
The only thing sexier than an architecture student is, well, pretty much anything, but especially an architecture school dropout. Here are 5 ways to make your exit as seductive as a future in architecture once was: 1. Cry A Lot There’s nothing sexier than a glistening student who’s completely given up on everything. Get that drenched look by … Continue reading
“New Moleskine, new me!” announced Jessica Kaye, as she unwrapped her new overpriced notebook. Kaye, a usually unorganised, apathetic student with severe procrastination problems, claims that “things will be different”, now that she has a new Moleskine. Continue reading
Three leading architecture firms BIG, MVRDV and Snøhetta will fully merge together by the end of 2017 to form one giant Transformer. Having previously competed against each other in numerous design competitions, the firms are now deciding to pool their strengths and robotic bodies together into one giant Super Robot, working together to rule the architectural world. Sources state … Continue reading
Jeremy Taylor, 19, a first-year architecture student and self-proclaimed “fan” of Tadao Ando struggled to list even five of his buildings in a recent conversation. “Trust me, I love Ando, I really do! Everyone else is into mainstream stuff like Gehry and Koolhaas but Ando is the man for me. Have you heard of him before? … Continue reading
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