101件 沒在建築學校學到的事

101件 沒在建築學校學到的事
The Indicator: 101 Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School By Guy Horton — Filed under: Featured ,Misc , The Indicator      (This article is co-authored by Sherin Wing)  (翻譯: Ling-Li Tseng)

1] Even if your boss is your friend he may have to axe you to save his business.

就算你的老闆是你的麻吉，為了事業，他必要時還是會砍你一刀 (解雇你)

2] Read the book, On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt. Carry it with you. It’s pocket-sized.

隨身攜帶Harry G. Frankfurt寫的口袋小書 - ”論廢話”

(註：一個哲學教授論述廢話理論，並且提出對批判現今社會廢話泛濫)

3] Do not drink at work and especially do not get toasted around your colleagues under any circumstances.

工作時不要喝酒，尤其被同事環繞時萬萬不可亂喊乾杯!!

4] No matter how highly you may think of yourself you may still be a minion in the eyes of others who hold more power than you.

無論你覺得你有多了不起，在上位者來看，你始終是條小蟲!

5] Once you leave architecture school not everybody cares about architecture or wants to talk about it.

一旦你離開了建築學校，你將會發現並不是大家都在意建築或是想要討論建築

6] All eating habits and diets acquired during school should be jettisoned.

該拋棄所有在學校養成的飲食習慣

7] The hygiene habits you kept in architecture school are inappropriate for real life; bathe regularly and change your underwear.

在建築系養成的衛生習慣不適合真實的生活，請規律的洗澡 並更換內衣褲。

8] The rush and exhilaration you experience in studio may be inversely proportional to how much you will enjoy working for a firm.

在studio的搓屎與興奮和你為一個公司工作時的樂趣是成反比的。 

9] It’s architecture, not medicine. You can take a break and no one will die. 

這是建築，不是醫院。你可以休息一下，沒有人會真得死掉。

10] Significant others are more important than architecture; they are the ones who will pull you through in the end. See 49.

那些能在最後陪你度過難關的人遠比建築更為重要，看看第49條。 

( Keep reading after the break.   休息以後請繼續看! )

(ps. 49條 是在諷刺當建築師很容易有精神問題 = =)

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11] Being smart and having advanced degrees can make you a better designer.

做個聰明人，擁有個進階的學位 可以讓你成為一個更好的設計師

12] The industry underpays. Push for what you are worth.

這個產業的薪資不合理的低。 請致力於得到你應得的酬勞。

13] Mind your internet traffic at work unless you are certain your office does not have someone monitoring. Of course you should be working every minute, so this goes without saying.

留心你的網路流量阿，除非你很確定辦公室裡沒有任何人監管。當然當然，你每分每秒都應該是在工作的，以上當我沒說好了

14] Go home to your family.

回家陪陪家人吧!

15] Call your loved one’s frequently.

多聯絡一下你愛的人吧!

16] If you are working overtime, the firm buys dinner.*

*Contingent on office policies, of course.

若是你超時工作，公司應該要提供你晚餐!

* ㄜ~ 當然視公司的政策而定啦……… 

17] Don’t keep a mayline screwed to your desk. They are not cool and they date you. The same goes for colored pencils.

不要保留裝平行尺的那個螺絲孔在你的桌子上，那樣一點都不酷，而且會洩漏了你所屬的年代。 色鉛也是。 
(笑死我了)

18] Get the biggest monitor you can.

盡可能擁有最大的螢幕。

19] Do not, however, ask for two monitors. Even though it makes you look like a bad-ass you will be expected to do twice the amount of work.

不要要求有兩個螢幕。雖然雙螢幕看起來超帥，但你會被期待可以應付兩倍的工作。

20] Make sure team roles are clearly defined.

確認工作角色的分配是否定義明確

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21] Know what your role is.

了解你的角色是甚麼

22] Be careful with emails. If in doubt, don’t send.

對e-mail要有戒心。如果不確定寧可別寄。

23] At times respect and civility seem to be scarce commodities in architecture.

有時，該有的尊敬與禮數在建築領域中非常缺乏

24] Be cautious of “opportunities” that do not pay.

請小心那些沒有酬勞的”機會”

25] Sometimes the most critical person on your jury might actually be right.

有時在你評圖場上批判性最強的那個人，他或許真是對的。 

26] Understand how your office is run as a business and how they go after projects.

了解你的辦公室是如何運作如何搶案子的!

27] It is best to keep your outside activities quiet.

在外面的活動要保持低調

28] Your boss reads your blog.

你的老闆閱讀你的部落格
(驚! NO!)

29] Pyromania, car soccer, and other antics you made up to amuse yourself at 3 am are not actually normal. See 49.

縱火、車足球、或是其它讓你在半夜三點很爽的事 通常都很不正常阿!! 去看一下第49條!

(ps. 49條 是在諷刺當建築師很容易有精神問題 = =)

30] There are no architectural emergencies that should make you completely give up your life on the outside. That may have been the ethos in studio, but don’t carry it into the office.

沒有甚麼建築的緊急情況該讓你放棄所有你在外面的生活!! 或許當年在工作室這是一種團體情操，但請不要延續到辦公室裡。


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31] Be suspicious if your firm expects you to work long hours of overtime for no compensation. Be doubly suspicious if they justify it by saying things like, “It’s just part of the learning curve” or “We had to go through this, too.”

如果你的公司希望你沒有補償的超時工作，請質疑之! 
如果公司把這件事正當化，還說： 這就是個學習的過程阿! 我們都必須經過的阿!!  
請你一定要大大的質疑這件事!!

32] If a police officer pulls you over on the freeway for doing 90 mph on a Sunday morning while heading into the office, it’s time to re-evaluate your priorities.

在禮拜天早上趕去公司的路上，因為超速被警察攔下……………….. 是時候檢視自己的優先順序了…….

33] Know who the decision-makers are.

搞清楚誰是那個做決定的人

34] Don’t dress like an intern. See 72.

不要穿得像個實習生!

35] Read Dana Cuff’s Architecture: The Story of Practice.

看這本書http://books.google.com.tw/books?id=RA440xSeYQ0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dana+Cuff+Architecture&source=bl&ots=dEdqi-SB7U&sig=RZtZMxrMvQxfRpz5TO_JsXeS1V4&hl=zh-TW&ei=7aOrTeDeHIyYvAO7raX_CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

36] Expect to be regarded with suspicion if your undergraduate degree is not in architecture.

非建築系的出身是一定會被質疑的 

37] Don’t be seduced by mere appearances.

不要僅僅被外表引誘

38] If your firm is outsourcing work to save money, be concerned.

如果你的公司向國外採購零件來降低預算，請小心。

39] Architecture firms can have multiple glass ceilings. Be aware of them all.

建築公司有著各式各樣複合的隱性歧視，全部都要很小心阿!

40] If a principal of a firm sees making coffee or moving boxes as beneath him/her, consider looking for another office.

如果老闆鄙視倒茶水或打雜的,請考慮換公司

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41] If a principal doesn’t say good morning when you say good morning to him/her, consider looking for another office.

如果老闆漠視你的早安,請考慮換公司

42] When firms advertise themselves as think tanks or research labs, ask them specifically what it is that they do. And most importantly, make sure they pay. Well.

公司以智囊團或實驗室自稱時,確定一下他們實際上在做什麼

43] If you are invited to be on a jury, don’t trash the student just to make yourself look good or to contradict a rival on the jury. Be constructive and try to help the student. This is the point.

如果你受邀去評圖,不要只是電學生或跟其他評審吵架,作點有建設性的事，試著幫幫學生吧!! 這才是重點! 

44] Subvert the signature of the software, unless you consciously want the architecture to convey this signature.

把軟體的特徵消掉,除非你要用建築來表達這個特徵 

45] Architects are in a service industry. They provide services to clients.

建築師是服務業人員, 他們對顧客提供服務

46] In proportion to their pay, architects require the most education, most training, and the most exams to become licensed professionals.

建築師需要的教育,訓練,認證考試與待遇成正比

47] Don’t be a Typhoid Mary. When sick, stay home.

生病請待在家裡,不要來傳染給別人

48] Embrace the business-side of architecture.

請接受建築汲汲營利的一面

49] If you are an architect you should automatically qualify for psychotherapy and medication.

如果你是建築師,你自動有資格接受精神治療

50] Most architects believe they were destined to become architects because of their early childhood experiences. They showed signs of architectural greatness at a very young age. This is a myth that reinforces an unhealthy hero complex. See 49. 

大多數建築師自小就自許成為建築師,他們從小就展露了在建築上的光芒與成就。
以上的虛構神話加強了許多不健康的英雄團體的存在。 唉! 


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51] Architecture in the academy is completely removed from the profession. Likewise, the values within the academy are radically different from the values within a firm.

.....學界跟業界,在建築來說，是完全不同的兩個世界

52] Be cautious about applying theory to space.

把理論化成空間時,請小心

53] Do not take design strategies or operations learned in studio too seriously.

不要把學校裡那一套設計操作看得太認真

54] Know the difference between architectural celebrity and actual worth.

了解建築大師跟實際價值的差別

55] Read books with words, not just pictures.

看書也要看字，不要只看圖

56] All firms are different. Shop.

每間公司都不同,多比較

57] To save time, assume your wife is right.

為了省時間,請假裝你太太是對的

58] Do not date an architect unless you are certain he/she is able to maintain a healthy life outside of architecture. See 49.

請勿跟建築師約會,除非你確定將來會有個健康的下班生活。別忘了第49條

(ps. 49條 是在諷刺當建築師很容易有精神問題 = =)

59] Architects should not intermarry. Inbreeding is not good for the gene pool. See 49.

建築師不適合通婚。同系繁殖對基因不好。(回頭看第49條)

(是要提幾次第49條阿!  有完沒完!! )

60] If you are married when you go to architecture school, studio ends at 7:00.

如果你唸建築時已婚, 那下課時間是七點    

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61] Do not buy into the fashion of the moment and simply dismiss certain architects without examining them for yourself.

不要追隨一時的時尚或是未經檢視就忽略一些建築師

62] Architects who do not build things also have important things to say and should be listened to.

沒有蓋房子的建築師一樣有很重要的話要說，應該聽!

63] If your studio instructor is a recent graduate, be alarmed.

如果你的設計老師是剛畢業的菜鳥，請小心。

64] Do not obsess about sustainability to the exclusion of other factors.

不要被節能永續迷住而忽略其他因素

65] Renderings done in China are so last year.

中國作的渲染圖好過時阿

66] If you start a think tank make sure you have some thoughts to put in it.

如果你創了個智囊團,或是研發團體，確定你有些想法

67] Read Rem Koolhaas, but do not obsess and fantasize about being him. Delirious New York is still relevant.

讀庫哈斯吧,但不要太入迷,"癲狂的紐約"這書仍意義重大

68] Archi-babble does not make you sound cool.

建築腔聽起來並不酷

69] Keep in touch with everyone you know, especially if they aren’t in architecture.

請與所有人保持聯絡,特別是非建築人

70] In fact, make friends who are not architects.

事實上,跟非建築師交朋友比較好

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71] Do not wear the same shoes every day, They will start to smell.

不要每天穿一樣的鞋,會臭

72] Make sure your jeans are up-to-date. No acid-wash. No baggy.

穿最新的牛仔褲來 

73] The economically distressed urban zones you can afford while in school

are not gentrified just because you and your friends have moved in.

經濟蕭條的地區並不會因你的搬入而被重建

74] If you must read Italo Calvino, read more than just Invisible Cities.

如果你必須讀卡爾維諾,不要只是讀"看不見的城市" 

75] Expect a period of post-traumatic stress disorder after you graduate. Do not make any important decisions during this time.

畢業後會有一段日子像得了創傷後症候群,那陣子不要作什麼重大決定 

76] Don’t get a dog just because you are lonely.

不要因為寂寞而養狗 

77] Architecture is fueled by fetishes—rectilinear designer eyewear, for instance.

建築因物質上的迷戀而被重新補充,例如直線型的設計師眼鏡 

78] When trying to decide if a theory book is good, check the bibliography first. 

試著決定一本理論書的好壞時，先看看參考書目! 

79] Listen to your elders. They are wise.

聽聽長輩的話,   他們有智慧

80] FAIA can mean different things to different people.

每個人對FAIA這縮寫的解讀都不同

註:可以指美國建築師協會會員 

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81] If you already have a B.Arch, consider further education in a different field. Your M.Arch. can’t make a real contribution to the field if you’re just showing off software skills. 

建築系畢業的人請考慮唸別科碩士, 建築研究所教的酷炫軟體能力並不能造成實質貢獻

82] Always back up your hard drive.

永遠備份你的硬碟 

83] Embrace social media, but don’t be its bitch. Only tweet/post when you have something important to say.

請接受社會媒體,但不要淪為其打手;只發表重要的話 

84] Architecture firms should consider forming economic alliances similar to OPEC.

建築事務所應該結盟成像OPEC一樣的組織 

註: 石油輸出國組織。 組織的目的是在協調會員國的石油政策，使石油價格維持在合理的水準，並提供會員國技術與經濟的援助。

85] Even if you don’t like the look of someone’s architecture they may have something valuable to teach you.

你不喜歡的建築仍有可學習之處 

86] Great architecture, like great art, tends to arise from deep psychological issues. See 49. 

偉大的建築像偉大的藝術,傾向於從深層的精神議題裡浮現  (回頭看49條) 

87] The eighties and postmodernism were not all bad.

八零年代和後現代主義其實沒那麼糟 

88] Being avant-garde is a choice that should be evaluated.

當前衛派是個值得被評估的的選擇

89] Architect’s web pages are often out of control and take too long to load.

建築師的網站常失控且讀取緩慢 

90] In one’s life there are a finite number of all-nighters one can pull. You probably used them all up in school.

一個人一生的通宵次數有限,你在校時都用光了吧 !?


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91] Understand the contexts from which modernism arose.

請了解現代主義興起的原因 

92] When the economy is good architects can rely on experience to run firms, but when the economy is bad they need advanced business skills they may not possess.

景氣好的時候,建築師靠經驗經營事務所,景氣差的時候,他們需要的是更好的商業策略

93] Architecture is dependent on boom and bust cycles.

建築依賴於經濟繁榮與蕭條的周期

94] Good design is not necessarily the most important factor in running a

successful architecture firm.

好的設計不是成功的事務所的最重要關鍵 

95] Branding is important. 

品牌很重要 

96] In a corporate firm, those at the top are not necessarily the best but

they may have been there the longest. 

公司裡那些上位者不一定是最強的,但他們可能是在那個位置待最久的 

97] Being good at software does not make you a good architect.

軟體能力很強不代表你是好建築師 

98] Architecture is cliquish.

建築是有派系的

99] Many architects do not live in houses designed by themselves or other architects.

很多建築師不住在自己或其他建築師設計的房子裡 

100] Architecture office parking lots communicate success. There should be at

least a couple high-end luxury cars. If there are a lot of beaters, be wary.

If all cars are beaters, don’t go in. 

成功的建築事務所的停車場會有幾部名車,如果中古破車很多,請當心,
如果全是中古破車,不要應徵

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101] Be concerned when you are too idle at work. 

請當心如果工作時太悠閒------------------------