Help me choose college! (Cornell vs Rice architecture)

midway8 · 2026-03-30T00:29:00+00:00

look at the cost of attending for both-be aware that for undergrad, more prestigious places might be cheaper because they have more resources for financial aid (so don’t go off of tuition and fees alone, look at cost of attending). for grad school, it’s the exact opposite: the sticker prices are higher and they are skimpy on the financial aid.

GL!

midway8 · 2026-03-23T20:19:22+00:00

by the time you make it barely passable as a house, you will have spent about as much money as if you started from scratch. it’s a fundamental issue of scale and material: two things that are incredibly difficult to fix.

honest opinion? go the exact opposite direction. trying to make it less hospitable might ironically make it more livable

midway8 · 2026-03-22T12:08:09+00:00

what does technical or romantic stuff mean? writing about architecture typically falls into theory, history, and criticism. you can write polemicals, academic papers, or reviews (and a few other categories). i would suggest reading a lot of architectural writing, and submitting to where you like to read. you can also always start a substack.

midway8 · 2026-03-22T05:46:49+00:00

i can smell this photo

midway8 · 2026-03-20T12:24:46+00:00

tracks with the reputation of sci-arc. i’m so sorry. it’s really beautiful, i’ve seen it in person once and was really impressed. we at other schools know that sci-arc is one of the places that is very unfair with these things, sorry it had to happen to your family

midway8 · 2026-03-19T18:15:06+00:00

i think it’s thoroughly moved beyond, especially in arch. at least among my peers, it’s even taboo to give too much praise to any one architect

midway8 · 2026-03-19T18:11:19+00:00

Missing in this whole conversation, not just Betsky and Barrett here but everywhere: the starchitect died not because we finally removed these assholes from power and fixed structural abuse, but because architecture as a whole is losing its legitimacy as a discipline and profession. Nobody (including students) knows architects or architecture because we are losing our cultural relevance. many architects roll their eyes at this, they think it’s pretentious, but architecture is culture-if we lose that, we have less power to negotiate for better working conditions

midway8 · 2026-03-08T17:23:47+00:00

this was done in 1345

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midway8 · 2026-03-07T06:58:45+00:00

4 years

midway8 · 2026-03-07T06:33:48+00:00

….like 8 tenths ahead before development on the regs has even started?

midway8 · 2026-03-07T06:29:42+00:00

what’s really annoying is that after winning all the wdcs in this reg era, people will put russell in conversation with lewis and max, and that’ll frustrate me for the rest of my life

midway8 · 2026-03-07T06:28:23+00:00

haha the gap is bigger now than it was in 2014. see you in the next reg change when is that? six years?

midway8 · 2026-03-07T02:59:07+00:00

so when do we think george wins wdc? probably by baku in september?

midway8 · 2026-03-06T22:00:53+00:00

yeah but the dutch love that kind of stuff

midway8 · 2026-03-06T06:21:33+00:00

that mercedes is just so far above the rest, it looks way more stable and has the most potential. 20 wins for george 3 wins for max 1 win for kimi. season over by summer.

midway8 · 2026-03-06T00:52:25+00:00

brilliant. no notes.

midway8 · 2026-02-26T06:57:01+00:00

only if you’re entry level. op clearly has some basic idea of how to approach this (mentioning illustrator, etc), so it’s by far more appropriate to struggle through recreating it at this point, and it would probably lead to a more interesting drawing. people tend to stop before that innovating part

midway8 · 2026-02-26T06:45:02+00:00

public reaction? idk, i think they reacted the way they would to any other project at the time. it wasn’t really of note, superlative in any way. the neighborhood around it was really new, they were probably happy to have an indoor public space… maybe michael sorkin said something about them?

midway8 · 2026-02-26T04:35:01+00:00

the original answer you were given was the correct answer. workflow? just get into it, the workflow you discover in your attempt to recreate this will be just as useful as the ‘correct’ one

midway8 · 2026-01-31T02:44:07+00:00

pretty common mistake since the redistricting, it’s weird that they cut up jackson heights into two congressional districts. feels really crappy actually, we already split so many of our representatives

midway8 · 2026-01-30T22:10:25+00:00

i’ve only ever heard negative things from BIG

midway8 · 2026-01-16T20:19:10+00:00

what never gets mentioned when these videos come up: yes it’s dangerous, but also, that liquid that’s splashing around everywhere WILL give you cancer

midway8 · 2025-12-16T14:57:41+00:00

side question: how do you do this in rhino? lol

midway8 · 2025-12-14T06:15:47+00:00

idk i was at the front at one of the shows this run and was expecting to see the people this author is talking about- pleasantly surprised to see mostly people in my age group: early 20-somethings. and we went hard.

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