Trajectories

(A bit of a warning: this post is going to contain a lot of nerding out over “design.” I won’t take it personally if you get bored and skip this post…)

I have only been in the “design field” for a few years. Before then I didn’t even know what the design field meant. But, as any of you who are also in this field know, it is one full of egos, geniuses, wannabes, world-changers, and rock stars. You could probably say that about a number of professions, but, dang, designers take themselves seriously (myself included at times). Of course, you have to take yourself seriously if you are going to work the long hours that many designers/landscape architects/architects work. Who would work that much if they didn’t believe in what they were doing? I have been to MANY exhibitions on design and architecture over the last three years, and seen a lot of work that I know took many hours to complete. But I have never been to one of a such grand scale until Saturday night. These crazy people took over a condemned 8-story office building and put a single architecture model in EVERY room. There were probably over 100 models in this place. And, I have to say, I saw all types of egotistical, genius, wannabe, world-changing, rock star ideas.

So, let’s take a little tour of some of the highlights:

This model was done by the architects in my office. They used a 3D printer to create the light-colored portion. Cool, huh?

Crazy water-filled glass clouds. They look like huge dangling gall bladders to me...

In my opinion, all interior decorating should include large images of my cute, furry husband's face. But that's just me.

Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?

This model was designed by a friend of ours. Shiny.

Well, this looks like a gigantic stomach being attacked by an intestine. Can you tell I was pre-med in college?

Eerie Glow Model #1

Eerie Glow Model #2

Eerie Glow Model #3

Eerie Glow Model #4. And Phallic Symbol #1. (Sorry Mom)

Do you see that girl behind me? Creepy.

When this office building gets torn down, they are going to build in its stead a large mollusk designed by Zaha Hadid. If you know about her work, you either love it or hate it.

After all that fancy schmancy architecture stuff, Chris and I thought we needed to balance our palette by going to another architectural phenomenon:

The shopping mall. The ultimate cultural equalizer.