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Over the past few months I have asked a male architect for ideas & drafts for the renovation of the farmhouse, and at every turn I am stunned by his utter disregard for any cleaning-related concerns. For example, he is very into the idea of having in the living-room a big, non-openable window near the ceilingβwhich, granted, looks pretty, like having a piece of blue sky when you raise your eyes, but immediately Iβm like,Β with a high ceiling, how will I clean this? You canβt open it so you have to clean both sides separately, and you canβt easily reach either side. Iβll need a tool with an absurdly long telescopic handle. He says, a stepladder. Iβm like, but Iβll need to carry it by myself to the living-room and the front of the house every time. βSo?β So a very tall stepladder is heavy? And it will be hard not to get dirty water dripping down the wall. He reacts like he canβt believe he is being asked to bring the concept of dirty soap water into his grand designs, like these are base, trifling considerations, when to me itβs a crucial factor in the decision to add this decorative window.
Similarly we both agree on leaving most of the wood beams exposed because theyβre old and beautiful, but when I ask if we ought to insulate in such a way as to cover every other one, so the remaining ones are farther apart and itβs harder for spiders to use them as ready-made anchors for their webs, he just looks disgusted, like βI am talking about Architecture and you bring up spiderwebs.β At this point I start to entertain the idea that men make horrible architects. You design someoneβs house to give them a nice, convenient space to live in, not to make their life more difficult. A man who has never used a sponge in his life should not be allowed to graduate from architect school and thatβs the end of it.
My mom is an architect and I can confirm . Male architects are overwhelmingly pretentious douches that half ass their projects
Im currently studying interior design and have been involved in the field in and off for a long time. I canβt even begin to tell you how many people live in βarchitecturally designedβ houses where the male architect was more interested in winning awards so he could upgrade his Maserati than designing something humans can actually live in.
Whenever I see fancy architecture, my first thought is nearly alwaysΒ βthis is gonna be a bitch to heatβ, closely followed byΒ βthat staircase looks terribly unsafeβ.
I donβt understand why so many fancy architects donβt seem to consider, that people would have to live in that house. If you are an architect and people donβt actually want to live and spend time in your house, arenβt you a failed architect?
I live in a country where it rains 265 days of the year, and it irritates me immensely how many modern buildings locally have clearly been designed by architects who either donβt know this, or donβt care. Why would you ever design a flat-roofed building in this climate? There are so many new buildings here that look fine when itβs sunny, but are grey and depressing when it rains. And so many slightly less new buildings which are streaked with rust and mold because theyβve been rained on constantly for the last ten years, and the architect never considered what that would do to them.
When your pet adjusts their position so they can lay their head on you
a baby can be born right now at 12:00, on a wednesday, august 24 in new jersey while another baby is also born in the exact same moment but they are born 9:00, on a tuesday, august 23 in california, these babies that are born at the same moment are technically because of time zones, a concept that we created ourselves, born βhoursβ apart even though really they are born at the same moment just not the same βtimeβ, one will be considered older even though in actuality they are the same
