Sketchup at AA
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I just read the article, and I cannot figure it out, either.
It looks like a snobbish dismissal. Perhaps a philosophical reductivist opinion. Perhaps 3 or more other people paid attention. -
@thomthom said:
And what is AA anyway?
To UK architects it's the Architectural Association - a prestigious [but sadly up its own arse] school of architecture in London...
To most pleb's in the UK it's the Automobile Association - a large car-breakdown-rescue club...
To drunken pleb's in the UK it's Alcoholics Anonymous - a self-help-group for people with drink problems where you can remain un-named...
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@tig said:
To drunken pleb's in the UK it's Alcoholics Anonymous - a self-help-group for people with drink problems where you can remain un-named...
This is what AA means in Norway as well - but I figured they'd not bother too much about SketchUp...
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It's Assholes Association and I'm the President so watch it!
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@rclub24: I notice you generally hold nothing back
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Well, somebody had to talk this way about sketchup... there must be The Opposition in a free society
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I have also seen (in a discussion page, can't remember where), a guy who said that he hates this program and that he never could work on such a spastic program - even his username was "I HATE YOUR PROGRAM".
If they decided to spend some time and writing that, it's clear that Sketchup got their attention
After reading it I was disappointed, it's so superficial... I appreciate a good criticism, but here was not the case
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@unknownuser said:
I have also seen (in a discussion page, can't remember where), a guy who said that he hates this program and that he never could work on such a spastic program - even his username was "I HATE YOUR PROGRAM".
Here you are:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=55289ed4340b3607&hl=en
Look at how he just states it without any reasoning. Then after he was asked why, the first sentence is "It's not intuitive".
Well, you can say a lot of things about SU but that it weren't intuitive?
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It's a typical pseudo-intellectual diatribe from an utter twat, who has never built [and will never build] anything of merit - even a SKP model. If you re-read it you can see that it doesn't even reach a proper conclusion: it just throws out some ill-considered and conflicting opinionated thoughts
The author appears to have not even considered the infinite possibilities of a dialectic dynamism that could emanate from - even pervade - the paradigm that is so summarily dismissed, without having fully intellectualized its innermost realms and thereby assimilated the advisements that are readily available to all would be adepts of this arcane discipline, should they but strive to seek them out [i.e. he hasn't read the instructions before opening the box!]
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Well put, sir.
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@gaieus said:
Well, you can say a lot of things about SU but that it weren't intuitive?
Well, when I first got in touch with SketchUp (it was v.5, as I can remember), I made a cylinder, then I gave up
- I admit that first time I never looked at any video, just clicked some times.
After two years I remembered about it and decided to give it a chance. And her we are: married for life. I don't want to hear about autocad -
I was more stubborn (also started with v.5). It took me a week to build my first dome (hand stitched) until I decided to go through the manual. When I saw how to make a cone there with the follow me tool, I became suspicious and indeed it worked with a dome, too.
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Don't get me started on autocad.
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I bet he gets addicted in no time and you'll see him on this forum asking for advice.
CV attached
Sam Jacob:
Sam Jacob is a founding director of FAT, architect, writer and critic. He has most recently been the partner in charge of the Hoogvliet Heerlijkheid project in Holland a park, cultural centre and community facilities completed in October '08 and developed in collaboration with WiMBY! The project explores ideas of Pop, populism and participation which form the basis of an architectural approach intended to explore the role of architecture as communicative device, programmatic agglomeration and social condenser. The project was shortlisted for a World Architecture Award. Jacob has taught and lectured at universities in Europe and the US most recently as the Louis I Kahn Professor of Architecture at Yale in 2007. Other positions include post-graduate unit master at the University of Westminster, the Architectural Association and University of Greenwich.
Jacob is a frequent contributor to public architectural debate through regular lectures and symposia. He writes Strangeharvest.com and is architecture editor of Contemporary, a columnist for the Architects Journal, and contributes to magazines and journals including Icon, Art Review, Frieze, Metropolis and Log. Jacob is currently completing a PhD at the Center for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College London.
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Obviously written by a judgemental someone who never opened the program and never looked at any of the outstanding works in the gallery. TIG hit the turkey on the head. Probably never did anything in his misrable twisted little life except bitch (how about that for being judgemental)
"It's a typical pseudo-intellectual diatribe from an utter twat, who has never built [and will never build] anything of merit - even a SKP model. If you re-read it you can see that it doesn't even reach a proper conclusion: it just throws out some ill-considered and conflicting opinionated thoughts"
A few of the seven people who made comments on the article were GSU users and were more realistic.
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After drilling into his Architecture firm a little deeper (and finding what looks like SketchUp images), I also found this as representive of some graphic work (may we recommend SketchUp Sir).Website Gallery URL http://www.fashionarchitecturetaste.com/architecture/
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This is turning into a trip down memory lane!
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Man, this bring back memories...lolol
This is like reading a mechanic's opinion about a mathematic algorithm appliance in quantum physics : useless.
When I was doing my architecture degree in the university, teachers/architects there were really against SK, the only valid software for them, for modeling architecture were AUTOCad and 3DS VIZ, not 3DS Max. Now for me anyone, that back then, considered Autocad a good 3d modeling software doesn't even worth discussing anything about 3D, and join that without not even knowing de differences between VIZ and MAX and you got a pretty good idea how dumb most architects can be in this matter.
And after all that speech, I then saw the models done by these architects here in MAX and Maya, and if most were horrible by my newbie standards back then (7-8 years ago) you can imagine what I think about their models now...
Now, I'm not saying they were bad teachers or architects (some were pretty good in fact), but they were good at architecture not other things, because most architects here are really cocky about their work and being an architect, and think that architecture is the superior art, above any other kind of design form... And God forbid they try to do more, in Photoshop, than add people to their images...
So, after seeing some of these guys 3D models, discussing why the regular printer couldn't print white (good luck replacing that white cartridge...), or being asked to turn around the photo of a shop's wall in Photoshop so that they could see what was behind it, I've pretty much given up about their opinion in CG matters that are not about usability...
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I thought his article was pretty lame - lacked any real information. But I thought he sounded like he was someone who was pro sketchup, but realized he was talking to a group of people who are not:
@unknownuser said:
It’s an ugly format, an ugly medium. Basic, dumb, utterly devoid of expression. But yet, but yet… Isn’t it possible – actually, isn’t it important – to understand this medium? To interrogate what it includes and excludes from its representational repertoire?
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@unknownuser said:
And when we start to look closely, isn’t there some kind of strange sublime operating in the SketchUp landscape?
@unknownuser said:
Or perhaps we should use its tropes as a way of exploring unlikely subject matters.
I think he is saying that SketchUp might have some ugly output, but perhaps architects should explore it beyond just its basic visual output; Come to realize that it is a great conceptual modeler that might open new possibilities of form and arrangement. Which is why he posts those incredibly boring images of overlapping buildings - to supposedly push the limits of architectural thinking.
I think he's talking like he's the first person to use this SketchUp product for architecture, conceptual design, or viuisualization. I really did think the article was just dumb. The idea that his images are important experiements that might reach some interesting conclusion is just architectural talk that says "Im going to do crappy experimentation and I think the world should have to follow along and love me beacuse I am asking profoundly shallow questions.." grr, lame.
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The article is about as relevant as Ronald McDonald discussing the pros and cons of Veganism.
Although I suspect the Hamburgler would make more sense.
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Sorry all, was not my intention to start a debate. I ran into his blog quite accidentaly, and I am glad I did. Having said that, Chris' assesment is right on. In his rant Sam fails to follow his own dictum that one has to also study what is being left out, in his case Sam should also study what is being left out from the "representational repertoire" of whatever other software is being pushed in schools these days.
Full disclosure: I am the product of one such schools (a US counterpart anyway). Consequently, I have spent ten years of my career diffusing the koolaid I drank back then.
Also, I am a proud sketchup user.
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