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1/4/09
Why architects wear black!?
Black Sketch Book * 100 contemporary architects, designers and draftsmen explain * Collection of handwritten explanations in an A6-format notebook * Contains statements by Peter Eisenman, Jacques Herzog, Rem Koolhaas etc.
An industry manager who left his white-blue, silver-shimmering world of car bodywork and dove into the pitch-black, mysterious world of architecture for the first time during a competition asked me one day: "Ms Rau, why do architects actually wear black?" Although I was wearing black and I am an architect I didn’t have a spontaneous answer, so I responded: "Ask the other architects!" That was in 2001, and it is why this small book came to be. I have asked the question at an international level and whenever it seems appropriate ever since. The sometimes amusing and other times programmatic or hair-splitting answers I have received over the last seven years are listed chronologically in this little black volume. Read, and please, don’t ask me why architects wear black!
1. They do it to look professional 2. They can get away with it without looking like the outfit was from 3 years ago. 3. They see other professional designers wearing it so to fit in they do it.
Its a fun read but I agree with the "Ask the other architects!" too hehe.
Hehe no I don't I've skimmed the book but these are just from my point of view ;P
but I've heard that some of the architects said they wore black because of "fear" or "green", "its fashionable, doesn't stand out, easy choice, tragic, etc."
I have "101 things I Learned in Architecture School" a fun read yet also a valuable guidebook to use as a young designer or even student! :)
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LoooL!Interestring.. Totally bying it
heehehe yea me too :)
1. They do it to look professional
2. They can get away with it without looking like the outfit was from 3 years ago.
3. They see other professional designers wearing it so to fit in they do it.
Its a fun read but I agree with the "Ask the other architects!" too hehe.
you have it? how wonderful - 3 reasons are not enough for me! tell me more ;)
Hehe no I don't I've skimmed the book but these are just from my point of view ;P
but I've heard that some of the architects said they wore black because of "fear" or "green", "its fashionable, doesn't stand out, easy choice, tragic, etc."
I have "101 things I Learned in Architecture School" a fun read yet also a valuable guidebook to use as a young designer or even student! :)
oh thats great, I will check out book then, thanks dear for the tip ;)
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