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Architecture rejects
Hi guys! I'm new to this forum! I'm an architecture student and this crazy idea came into my head for an assignment of mine... a multimedia reasearch project to be exact ..
has anyone ever wondered which famous people are architecture rejects?Or know where I can get info on these 'architecture rejects'? meaning they have a degree in architecture or might even be liscensing architects but have chose to pursue other things like music, fashion , art or even Hollywood.
It would be nice to see some replies on this!
Thanks heaps!
suzzie
has anyone ever wondered which famous people are architecture rejects?Or know where I can get info on these 'architecture rejects'? meaning they have a degree in architecture or might even be liscensing architects but have chose to pursue other things like music, fashion , art or even Hollywood.
It would be nice to see some replies on this!
Thanks heaps!
suzzie
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Welcome to the forum.
I don't know if reject is quite the right word, more like they rejected architecture.
You may have to narrow the scope of your search a little or you will get thousands of names. If you're after famous sorts, then I guess the main areas architects have moved into have been comedy and cheesy 70s rock bands. If you can get hold of an old issue of Sub Plot there is a list of bands containing architects.
A few locals anyways:
Graeme Bond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aunty_Jack_Show
Eagle and Evans
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/18/1092764998539.html?from=storyrhs -
NO NO NO NO! Peter, suzzie said "famous people" not TV personalities or celebrities................ She has already narrowed the scope.
famousadjective
1. having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer.
2. Informal. first-rate; excellent: The singer gave a famous performance.
3. notorious (used pejoratively).
Famous people don't appear in Who Weekly and New Idea dispite what they read on the train going home from RMIT or Melb. Uni. They appear in Time Magazine or the New Yorker. -
Hey let's not get distracted. This is a post about alternative career choices, not splitting hairs over the meaning of a word.
And I thought fame just meant you're going to live forever. -
Strange reply Peter..........I was trying to reduce to possibility of the 'Bogan Factor'.
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Although I'm sure he doesn't have the necessary credentials, it seems bradley pitt enjoys a bit of a dabble and collaboration. He apparently 'collaborated' with Graft on his Hollywood home (um...don't all decent architects 'collaborate' with their clients?) and is doing the same with Gehry, i think on Clooney's Las Vegas casino. Do a search on the net and you'll turn up something.
FAHEEM KHALID LODHI, newly convicted terror dude, is a qualkified archtiect.
That's all i've got. Way to go with the obscure premise, btw. -
dav, You beat me to it with Faheem. Now that's famous! 20 years for doing some contextual anaysis and site survey work. That will teach him for being 'too' thorough.
Oh, and what about half of The Pet Shop Boys (Chris Lowe) and I think Zaha did some set design for one of their stage tours. -
3 of the 4 original members of Pink Floyd began studying architecture but didn't finish the first year... I think. They don't fit into your catergory but they are true architectural rejects, though - going on to bigger things? Thinkin bout their music - imagine their architecture.
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Famous people don't appear in Who Weekly and New Idea dispite what they read on the train going home from RMIT or Melb. Uni. They appear in Time Magazine or the New Yorker.
Showing your cultural cringe there, mate. -
Cultural Cringe?! No. I don't think so. I just have standards which are not in line with todays obsession with 'celebrity'.
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i'm in some sort of agreeance with mark on this, but i think the term 'celebrity' has either been hijacked, or is perfectly descriptive, of the kind of people who appear in those mags. i think maybe now we have 'celebrities' and we have 'famous people' (or something...its early in the morning...if i could afford a secretary i'd be yelling for coffee now...), so pointless BB housemates are 'celebrities' and important cultural icons like Warhol, are 'famous'. Of copurse, you still have the funny middle ground, but i think that we can just call him 'Tom Cruise'.[/i]
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With regards to this subject.. I agree with Dav that the term 'celebrity' 'has been hijacked. Although i dont think it might be descriptive of the kind of people who appear in gossip mags. It is probably a subset of 'famous' . I would actually consider designers like Karl Langerfield a celebrity. Or John Galliano for that matter. Somehow, the word 'celebrity' conjures an image of glitz and glamour and all things frivolous. David Beckham.. is famous and a celebrity ... no?
And do we not have 'celebrity designers' as well?
ALTHOUGH.. BB housemates are NOT celebrities. They are just idiots seeking fame. I think we call these people wannabes. :roll: I"d be ashamed to call myself an architecture student if I knew any of them did architecture and followed through the whole tumultuous 5 year course.
Aniwayz... I love the names I've gotten so far... Pink Floyd, Graeme Bond , and Faheem .. heh... I was looking at Tom Ford.. although how on earth do I do a google search on this subject for people who've rejected architecture??? I'm looking fo DJs, Writers, Busieness men ANYTHING really.. just a start ...
No doubt it'll probably generate heaps of stuff, but perhaps I'm not typing it right properly into google. Hm..
Oh.. There's something at the back of my brain and I can't put my finger to it. It's the name of this particular mansion that is designed by a whole range of designers .. can't remember if they were mainly fashion designers or what.. but it's all in the same flashy mansion somewhere in L.A i think. Does anyone remotely know what I'm talking about??
geez.. I hope I make sense... It's that time of the year where all bloody assignments are due. -
candyland wrote:
ALTHOUGH.. BB housemates are NOT celebrities. They are just idiots seeking fame. I think we call these people wannabes. :roll: I"d be ashamed to call myself an architecture student if I knew any of them did architecture and followed through the whole tumultuous 5 year course.
Oh.. There's something at the back of my brain and I can't put my finger to it. It's the name of this particular mansion that is designed by a whole range of designers .. can't remember if they were mainly fashion designers or what.. but it's all in the same flashy mansion somewhere in L.A i think. Does anyone remotely know what I'm talking about??
geez.. I hope I make sense... It's that time of the year where all bloody assignments are due.
sussie, I'm going to love this bit...Guess what? Remember the first Big Brother? Remember that Tozer with the mohawk that did the pushups (bitch!)? He was an (small a) 'architect' with a development company in Melbourne stating with M and ending with c.
Does that hurt?
I'll try to find the designed mansion for you.
Largerfeld and Galliano tend to be put in the celebrity pool because they have 'fag hags' hanging off them. Becham is married to a celebrity, thus becoming one. He did not marry Zaha........
I've studied 'Low Culture' as well as 'Low Brow'. -
DEFINTELY HURTS. damn. obviously i put my architecture studies on too much of a pedestal !! well I guess that's what happens when I try to justify what I'm doing after 5 bloody years.. damn...
but wasn't beckham already a celebrity even before he married Posh? Perhaps he's a celebrity becaue he was selling his soul to all those Adidas ads and got milk ads... in Ali G's own words ' Every man wants to be in his shoes and every man wants to be in his b*tch'
aniwayz..is she married?? zaha? she looks awfully much like a dragon lady...though not a big fan myself. I'm a Rem girl. -
Ones that I know of, or at least suspect:
Rod Quantock - comedian
Vince Sorrenti - comedian
Graeme Bond - comedian
Max Walker - cricketer and funnyman
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Oh! and Tinker Hatfield, who is a big name in shoe design, and works for Nike, started out designing Nike's corporate buildings.
And far beyond celebrity/fame cultural cringe, you've given me Google cringe, Candy. Remember it's not the be all and end all of research. its result generation effectively reduces the knowledge pool and makes us all dumber, and I've seen WAY too many internet references in my short time as a uni tutor. Books are still cool, and it seems that asking interested parties bags you results like nobody's business! -
weird al yankovic has a degree in architecture
all these comedians... any one have a theory? -
Theory? No! I just think some architects should keep the comedy separate to the Architecture.
If they can't, maybe they should put Weird in front of their name.
For instance Weird Ivan R******
Have you seen some of that weird s***?!
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