On 7/26/2012 2:30 PM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 7/26/12 12:27 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
-MIKE- wrote:

I guess what I'm saying is, at least it was a style or a step in the
evolution of a style.

All the McMansions around here look like someone bought home design
software for their PC and just started taking chunks of different
house samples they liked and assembled them together to make a big,
absurd, homogenized, stew-pot of architectural vomit.

I grew up in that era and we felt the same way about that architecture
back
then. Nothing has changed on that front except that people today look
backwards at things and like to think of them as somehow...
different. Not
so much.


Here's the deal. I studied architecture in college. Unfortunately,
though I studied enough to know that the style mixing I see is horribly
wrong, I didn't study enough to know how to properly explain it. :-)

Oh man! I hate it when someone self qualifies themselves with, I
studied that in college. LOL. I had an employee that pulled that on me
and he ended up eating crow every time he tried that. I don't care how
times or accounting procedures have changed you don't break sequence
when opening a new box of invoices. The one he was looking for was
actually on the next shelf up from where he pulled. Idiot! And he
"eventually" became a CPA.



I studied architecture in high school Oh man, I hate my self..LOL

A kitchen in the middle of the house was heavily, heavily frowned upon.
We had to design and draw complete plans for a home, I put a kitchen
in the middle of my house and was told that this was impossible and
simply not done. I had to bring a Polaroid picture of our kitchen to
class, to show that this design feature did exist, before I could
proceed with the foundation drawings. Now, very commonplace.