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From: Randolph Fritz <randolph@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:34:10 -0800
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> I just wanted to declare my position on my path with my architectural
> ideas, and I would appreciate any ideas as to anything regarding where
> I might be able to study this non-subject "architecture" outside of the
> commerical educational system. I am supposed to be an expert, says he,
> but I don't want to be an expert, I want to be an architect.
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My sympathies; it sounds like you've had a hard time of it with your school.
Have you considered engineering? You are so plainly fascinated with
mathematics and electrical engineering; maybe you should learn more. A
considerable number of architectural advances have in fact come from
engineers and craftspeople (steel frames, some dome forms, and so-on) so
there would probably be opportunities to at least influence architecture.
The modernists talked about industrial design and machinery, which they
conceived in the forms of their time--why not follow that path with modern
forms? (I nearly suggested this when you did your post on vacuum tubes; I
was wondering just what they *did* in your college-prep physics and math
classes.) And there is something wonderful in the engineering design
disciplines with their specific goals of mastery of the physical; there is
a certain quality of both acceptance and creativity, of the intractability
of the design medium, of the things that can nonetheless be done, despite
or even because of the intractability.
R.