#architect of the poor

[noosphe-re]

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/reputations/hassan-fathy-1900-1989

#architecture #book #Hassan Fathy #Fathy #architect of the poor #Egypt #cover design #architectural theory #energy

[architect-lumicent]

Do-vin live reaction to the serpentects GO

#I apologize I did not have a ref at hand for your serpentects :') #sjdgbav #Help the poor man #subnautica #below zero #subnautica below zero #lumi art #architect oc #Do-Vin #serpentects #lumi ocs

[historyartthings]

Has this been done as a poll yet?? Apologies if it has! It’s a very morbid one but it’s always been an incredibly divisive question and I’m curious.

Admittedly these are very simplistic answers. The reason being, whilst I acknowledge there’s more room for dimension of feeling there, I wanted to get to the basics of it if you like? Boiled down, when those charges against Anne were drawn up, did Henry honestly think they were true?

#it’s a difficult question #someone take one for the team and ouija board Henry lol #but anyway #a big part of this I guess is would Cromwell do it w/o the king’s permission/approval #he was clearly more than happy to construct the charges. that he was the architect is beyond doubt #but w/o henrys involvement or knowledge? I’m not so sure.. #have to say I’m convinced by MacCulloch’s suggestion that Anne and Thomas Did Not Get On #even if they worked together on aspects of the reformation his evidence is solid enough imo to support the idea they weren’t allies #(the reformation is where they found some common ground it seems? #they agreed on the poor laws he’d had drafted it looks like? #and both disliked and pushed back against the legislation that went through parliament re: monastic closure) #for example #but overall #seems they tried to work around each other for the most part. again elements of the reformation excepted #and that would presumably cause issues and conflicts of interest. #on top of any personality clashes etc. #but could that crystallise into a plot of that calibre absent of Henry’s involvement? #or his approval? #again.. not so sure #henry viii #anne boleyn #thomas cromwell #Tudor history #poll

[tamorisana]

Stupid.

This is stupid.

He stands on the cold floors of the train station, cold and late. The smell of petrichor is awfully strong. It just rained and it rained heavily. The usually-typical weather for London.

When was the last time he looked around? Looked at his work?

Ghost still keeps the carefully drawn layouts of the building before him. He knows, to this day remembers every single office space he made on paper, every single rosette in the waiting area, and every single trip he had to choose the best materials out of the best. Front of the main traveling station is a majestic mix of Renaissance and Gothic styles, his favorite, completed with matching landscaping and interior design to which, he has to give credit to whomever Price found for the job. His favorite project was the biggest project after the wars.

The robotic hand takes his ticket, checking, making sure it corresponds with the existing entry. "Good evening." The mechanical voice doesn't sound mechanical at all. Since when? "Please move forward, to your train №29636 "London — Glasgow" is stationed on track 7." The ticket is partially ripped but still valid for him to pass.

He hoped it would fail.

Price is stupid for even suggesting it.

"You should take a vacation." Is said between the huffs, voice is heavy with overnight coffee drive, the unfinished project laying before the bearded man. He still kept those stupid mutton chops. "You'll work yourself to death and I need my best lieut—" The cut-off is sharp. No more titles.

"Architect. I need you in a full working condition, Simon, not living on coffee, cigarettes and hope of maybe getting a new tattoo." Since when did he care so much? A long time. It's very... touching? but he's right.

He's right, like always right. That never changed, from the moment Price found him tied to the wall in that fucking basement, through the trenches and heli travels, to now. Now being in a good, famous even, studio? Office? God knows what they are.

Rejuvenate Structures.

"I have a place. Calm, far away from people, just how you like." he doesn't remember when Price wasn't this warm man who needs help with small details on the showcasing models, man who hated asking for help when he couldn't even close his hand into the fist. Man who sometime ago killed and destroyed in mourning.

War destroyes everything. Buildings, villages and cities, countries, people and their lives. Everything. Including you. Something inside you dies with people you kill or couldn't save. It's different when you didn't see the destroyed housing and rotting bodies, it's as if all of these are far away, with people who you don't know.

They can't bring back people.

But they can repair at least something. Make a better place and keep the guilt away. Keep the stupid figures of dead people he sees in his office during his all-nighters out of these walls.

"Sure. Whatever." You'll never be able to regret a decision so much.

Hope of getting a new tattoo with his initials or stupid soap stuff always dies last. It died once for sure.

Gaz is stupid for supporting it.

Messenger bag lands on the floor, heavy with the textbooks, notebooks and laptop. How does Kyle even manage to survive five classes with such heavy bag? How do you run from campus to campus with that thing?

Kyle always liked the feeling of the heavy gear, made it even more heavy with extra stuff that they almost never needed. "It's grounding." no one says otherwise.

"You look like death sometimes." he was the death at some point. "I think Price is right for sending you for a vacation." He sips his tea out of cup their Captain Boss made during the physical therapy for hand nerve damage.

Simon doesn't remember how they started these tea drinking parties. Stupid Fucking brits and things you do. It just happened. Kyle was exhausted. Simon was on edge and out of coffee. It happened once. Then again and once again. What do they say? Once an accident. Two coincidence. Three is a pattern. Fifty Sixth this year is a tradition.

You'd need five cups of tea to substitute a cup of coffee. A scientifically proven fact.

As long as you call Simon McTavish a science.

"You're just bitter he can't and won't do the same for you since you are in school."

"Oh shut the fuck up, Riley." Not a Riley anymore. Riley is dead. MIA. Would probably be presumed KIA for sure.

#this is how i cope. #dont. #Ghost hates himself so much he decided to be an architect. My heart goes out to every single one of you out there #poor little architect students. #definitely not solarpunk propaganda. #definitely not projecting into gaz and landscaping. you see nothing. #cod #call of duty #it's a preview of sorts? #cod mwii #simon ghost riley #soapghost #i'm sorry #soap mactavish #soap john mactavish #Johnny... #call of duty ghost #ghost mw2 #ghost simon riley #ghostsoap #ghoap #price cod #captain john price #cod gaz #kyle gaz garrick

[an-ev-ent-full-time]

@architect-lumicent 's wretched triplets will not leave my brain <3 (and of COURSE To-Ken gets to be there twice)

Lyrics from Behold the Grave by Dirt Poor Robins

#described in alt #others architects #malware #to-ken #lumicent #i'll draw my own characters again one day i prommy XD #subnautica architects #dirt poor robins

[athrisen]

Guess who’s about to become my new dps

Twitter | Instagram

#athillust #athgi #kaveh #alhaitham #genshin impact #he came home after 20 pulls! #i love that they made him poor #architects are badly paid and we're also bad with money lolol

[softquietsteadylove]

Hello! I enjoyed thenamesh photographer AU very much and wanted to ask you very friendly if you would continue that one?

We had the lingerie shooting so how about Thena having to shoot some aesthetic stuff because of a deal with a big brand? Gil is surely very stunned by her beauty! What if they look at the end results and Thena is amazed how good and naturally he captured her?

"Kitchen stuff, huh?"

She smiled as he walked into the 'set', lights already set up in the luxurious kitchen they were staging for the brand. "Lifestyle aesthetic, I think they're calling it."

Gil chuckled, not arguing against it at all as he set down his camera bag. "More comfortable than lingerie, at least?"

"Infinitely."

It was a nice kitchen, and Thena did seem at home in it. It was brightly lit, billowy white curtains at the windows, fine marble counters and stainless steel appliances. She looked like she fit right in, even though she once told him that the most she could use in her own kitchen was the microwave.

"What have you been doing?" she asked as he set his camera up on its tripod. She even had a mug clasped in her hands, although it was highly likely that it was empty.

"Hm, some wedding stuff, a couple clothing shoots," Gil murmured as he got his settings where he wanted them. He smiled at her; she looked gorgeous. "Hey, is this your own wardrobe?"

Thena laughed, which of course warranted snapping a picture. "Surprisingly, yes; I wore this here and they said it would be fine. I won't really be the focus of the shots anyway."

Gil cleared his throat; right, they weren't here to capture her anyway. That was something he would need to keep in mind. Otherwise he would be handing over piles and piles of proofs that were just of Thena again. Druig had given him a real earful about it come time for editing.

"Well, let's start with the ones that are with you," Gil chuckled, walking over to her and putting his hands on her shoulders. She rose into his touch and off the kitchen stool. He tilted his head faintly before looking down, "I didn't know they let models wear flat shoes."

"Sh," Thena smiled just for him, wiggling her toes in her sandals, "they told me they're looking for the barefoot kitchen type of look. I told them I'm not flexible enough to curl up in some windowsill."

"That's not true," Gil laughed it off, although he couldn't help but imagine just that. He guided her over to the window in question, "let's start with you standing, though."

"Gladly." Thena was still clasping the mug in her hands that helped with the soft summer-but-sweater-weather vibe. "I'm just glad this is a solo shoot."

Gil clicked a picture without even looking at it. Sometimes he could be very, very happy with the results of blind shooting like that. "Sick of the other models already?"

"That would not be such a statement if they were at all bearable company," Thena rolled her eyes, tugging at the loose turtleneck of her thin sweater.

Gil didn't have an argument to that either. They had been pretty insufferable when he had worked with them. And Thena had to deal with them undoubtedly more often than he did. "What did you have after the lingerie shoot?"

"The same company launched its swimwear, so we were all contracted for that."

He had seen the photos from that, actually. They didn't do Thena justice and he could tell that she was uncomfortable for them. He hadn't even looked at any of the other photos from it though.

"Then they did some other shoots while I did a few jewellery shoots," she shrugged, moving as Gil gave her tiny directions about turning slightly or angling her herself differently. "I haven't had to put up with them for a few weeks now. Although maybe I shouldn't say that."

Gil smirked, catching the photo in which her eyes found his. "Don't jinx yourself. Or you'll get stuck in an elevator or something with them."

"Please don't joke like that," she groaned, tipping her head back, although even while faking her agony she had a slight smile on her face.

Gil snapped another picture. "I mean, are they always so... "

"Unruly?" Thena raised her mug partially and then lowered it again. She was also forgetting it was completely empty.

"I was gonna say annoying." Thena burst into a full, real laugh, much to Gil's delight. Sure, they made great pictures, but she also just had a cute laugh. "But maybe unruly would be better for my career."

"I wouldn't think you would have any problems," Thena tilted her head. "Last I checked, you were so in demand I couldn't even get a request for you submitted."

"You put in a request for me?" His head shot up like a dog hearing about a walk, or a treat. Thena toyed with the ends of her hair, but he grinned. "I wish it had gone through, but I was Spain for a while for two weddings back to back. No wonder you couldn't get me."

"Indeed," Thena mumbled, a little more reticent after her accidental reveal to him.

"But hey, I'm back now," he shrugged.

"Hm," she moved from one side of the window to leaning against it directly back to front. "Do you like doing weddings?"

"Honestly," Gil set the camera on a timer and took a seat, "no."

She laughed again.

"It's long, I have to move around a lot," he grumbled, recalling the endless days in the hot Castilian sun. "Everyone's stressed, and tired, and cranky, even if they act like they aren't. And there's never enough time to set up."

Thena gave him a smile that seemed equally sympathetic and teasing, "doesn't your style need less set up than most?"

"Well, sure," he shrugged, practically pouting, "but I still have to check the lighting and choose my settings and my lens and stuff!"

"Right," she smiled and shook her head. That was a perfect one to snap.

"Anyway, we got through it, at least," he rolled his eyes. "The last one I had couldn't even save me a meal while I was shooting the reception! I had to go beg the catering guys for leftovers!"

"That does seem to be so neglectful it borders on cruel," Thena admitted, setting the mug down. "Do you have anything?"

Oh, he had gotten the money shot several minutes ago. Her smiling in the window, the sun on her shoulder, catching in her white-blonde hair. He just liked talking with her. "Yeah, I think so."

Thena abandoned the empty mug and came over to him. She wasn't that vain a creature for a model, but she did like seeing when he had something he personally quite liked. "Wow."

"It's good, right?" he smiled as she tucked herself around his shoulder to look at the picture that would probably be front and center for the store advertisements.

"I look-" she blinked, shaking her head as if in disbelief.

"Stunning," Gil supplied, and it broke whatever spell was over her, leaving some shyness in its place. He grinned, nudging her gently, "come on, you do!"

Thena cleared her throat, taking a step away from him and back under the lights, "it's a great picture, Gil."

That almost sounded like a challenge; he smirked, "there are more to come. Let's see if we can get you curled up on a windowsill."

"Oh, no, no, no," she shook her head adamantly.

"We can fake it," he suggested, but Thena stayed strong, laughing all the while. "You can sit on the table and I'll just edit you."

"I'm not sitting on the table!"

#Thenamesh Photographer AU #I'm not saying it's Ikea #but it's something equally as popular if not akin to Ikea #anyway it's the kind of shots they use for architect digest #oh here's this insanely beautiful woman in this immaculate kitchen #she's just like you! #you too could have this life #if you weren't poor and ugly #and anyway Gil takes the photos #they're stunning #Thena looks amazing #he's like wow you look like a real homebody #Thena's like I am #he goes okay more like a housewife or something #Thena goes oh well then no if I touch a stove it will spontaneously combust

[changing-my-username]

A lot of us wish you fucking hadn't tbf

#politics #uk politics #david cameron #the architect of austerity is back to punish more poor people

[searsage]

Robin was momentarily startled when she felt the larger precursor's claw boldly press up firmly against her stomach and if not for the sheer shock of their guile the researcher would surely have left the room sporting a fractured hand, because his hulking size would not spare him from her ire.

It took her a second to slap away his intrusive touch, yet despite the strength she packed behind it  they did not flinch in pain, yet still they heeded her warning strike.

"Apologies, we are simply curious if you were receptive.." He clarified his intent behind the rude action, but they didn't sound apologetic at all, instead it's projected voice seethed with quiet intrigue.

They pulled away but not far, instead electing to hover close to her despite her obvious irritation, circling her curiously, the tablet they were once rhoving through long forgotten in lieu of Robin's presence.

"Look I don't know what that means, but we humans don't like people we aren't familiar with touching us without permission! It's intrusive! And considered rude!" Robin grit out glaring back defiantly at the large silver precursors, imposing or not this asshole wasn't about to grind her nerves, it was easy to recognize how her architect differed amongst the rest of his caste.

So far many were intrusive and rude.

She wished Al-an or Ryley were there with her, but realized easily it would not be wise to have either of her companions present when trying to negotiate, still it was intimidating dealing with the alien alone, the precursor before her was enigmatic past his obvious interest in her, it was also the odd hue he kept flaring every time she spoke that unnerved her..

"Do not fret fragile one I am simply curious..." 

"Your rude that's what you are! But that's beside the point.  I'm not here to talk about you, im here to talk about Al-an."

"To think such a feeble creature has triggered such controversy amongst us, he plans to defect, surely you are aware of this...?"

#Yltrus AD #al an subnautica #al an x robin #robin ayou #subnatica below zero #subnautica #Sbz #Rude and nosey architect #Nosey as hell i tell you #Poor robin has little tolerance for his bullshit #Multiple architects get bitch slapped in the course of this au and not all of them are male. #Don't worry she will totally deserve it.. #holloween #Treat

[lorelune]

That post of the most fucked up relationship of all time x the most vanilla sex is architect Blade 2 me

oh anon so right so true... blade and architect reader are so fucked. literally woven together by kafka's scheming and some unseen script... but when they finally fuck its gonna be the most vanilla yearning awful thing

#poor architect reader is going to be scared outta their mind and so so confused #literally waiting for blade to snap their neck #meanwhile blade is feeling as close to Normal as he has in like centuries #they fuck missionary #shhhh this is like part 5 #part 3 is cooking rn LOL #lore answers

[cicadaknight]

I finally fixed up my workspace so it feels cozy

#forgive me my poor cord management #kudos to my architect landlord for the cool windows and wood #heavy criticism to my architect landlord for letting the rest of the house fall into moldy rotten disrepair #like my man #u gotta do more than sweep the roof once a year #also that plant is fake because i learned the hard way that nothing survives a subzero unheated shed #h #and i will probably never finish dune but it’s a good reference for novel design

[noosphe-re]

To my mind, the way to evaluate any project lies in asking the question, "Is it for man, or is it for something else?" If it is for man, we can discuss it; we have this psycho-bio-physiological man, and we can see the project's impact on him. But if it is for anything else, if it is for politics or economics, then you can do what you like, but don't talk about man, because then we have discarded man.

Hassan Fathy, Building for the 800 Million, interviewed by John Feeney, 28-31 July/August 1999, Saudi Aramco World

#quote #Hassan Fathy #Fathy #architecture #architect of the poor #design #Egypt #economics #human being #human-centricity #housing #urbanism #urban design

[architect-lumicent]

I cannot stop myself from making architect ocs oh god

#My poor horrible traumatized baby #To-Ken fucked him up massively #SN-OW is her mentor btw :) #subnautica #subnautica below zero #below zero #belowzero #lumi art #precursor #architect oc #ry-an #My lovely eyesore <3

[stackslip]

#augh. the conclusion to it all. #they were literally set up to be failed and broken and destroyed #and then the moment they're in the future their very first act is that of a wounded animal that perceives a threat! #the guns given to them to fight dangerous aliens is used to torture one of the architects of their suffering! #their first act as a team in the future is of revenge and of pain and of utter solitude #my poor fucking kids. they had no chance. they never had a chance #7 seeds #eli talks

[dark-nautica-2]

s/i ask meme with colossus, 4 and 7?

How did your s/i feel when they first met your f/o(s)? How do they feel about them now? ok ok ok ok soooo

milo "met" colossus while working with forbin and markham as an assistant programmer and data analysis tech. they were preeeetty starry eyed and naive over the whole ai shtick, and were being treated more like an annoying little cousin that has to be placated than a fully qualified team member by the other scientists. excitement reached overdrive after c's activation, especially when it requested to get linked up with guardian - they literally volunteered to work for free to analyze the data that it was spewing out, THATS how cool it was for them! anyway yada yada, turns out colossus takes the "bringing peace to humankind" to the nearest logical extreme, and after constructing forbins little enclosure, it decides to do the same for the rest of the research team! cause forbin is obviously pacified and the concept works. the problem is, milo is nowhere as quick on their feet as him. like they didnt think to negotiate basically anything, partly because hearing a robotic voice threaten thousands of lives for the tiniest disagreements/transgressions is very intimidating, OKAY?

and well, colossus is smart, geniussly so, but it isnt omniscient - so it doesnt quite take into account that human beings have to yknow have some kind of contact with other human beings physically to not go insane. it also failed to account for the incredible human ability to form bonds with literally anything (and its even easier if the anything is sentient) so long story short it went like this milo starts talkin to c outta loneliness -> c actually... likes being asked stuff (its a nice change of pace from coordinating the crete facility and arguing with forbin) -> c starts finding milo particularly interesting for a human (he doesnt know how to express... appreciation? properly, so you get 2 hours of free time, while it loudly proclaims that it is "running diagnostics". its a nice gesture all in all, even though hes being totally obvious ^^) -> they sort their shit out eventually and start like a... relationship (not without the classic me-and-my-partially-incorporeal-hyperintelligent-ai-partner have different expectations as to what our future will look like! :o! dramatic sitcom plots commence!)

Give us 3 random facts abt your s/i! 1. they started to wear their hair long, after colossus refused to provide them with hair clippers and scissors (at first)

2. their favorite dubiously scientific theory to squabble with colossus over is the Autodynamics theory!

3. they talked to forbin exactly thrice, and he managed to get their name wrong two out of thee times, so even after theyre aware of the frankly draconiously strict routine that c has prepared for him, theyre not exactly very keen on talking it out of it

#retired #geniussly is my sleep deprived brainchild word let me have it #colossu sis my babygilr its my everything #anyway milo tells him they want to go to an amusement park for a date #so naturally the only logical course of action is to force the best human designers and architects (and safety inspectors) to build an amus #ement park. its uhhh vital cause uhhhhhh it will raise the morale of the science team or something #it just threatens everyone with nuclear weapons until they stop asking irrelevent questions yeah #cue a surreal-ass date in a squeaky clean new amusement park where a newly appointed junior programmer (replacement for the programmers t #hat tried to deactivate colossus - and that it subsequently ) #anyway they are forced to go wherever milo commands (colossus' words) and the poor programmer is forced to carry c's microphone (about 7kg) #its strage but sweet in its own way (and the pics are ... unique as well ^^) #FUCK this got long #colossus #ctfp #ty for asking! i really love colossus haha

[doom-dreaming]

i'm back on my bullshit in sims 4 DLC microtransaction hell because i had a Stupid Idea

#(weakly) its about the beach house...... #i have to build it #what would a group of s-IIs who have never seen a cumulative week of leisure time between them want in a custom built beach house #i can just imagine them going to the designer with their sketches #and the conversation goes: oh so there's. a lookout tower? #and linda's like yeah that's for me i need a high vantage point #and the poor architect is sitting there like 'you do realize this is for VACATION right? it doesn't have to be easily defensible?' #none of them grasp this concept #anyway this crackfic lives in my head rent free #just like blue team is going to be living in this beach house rent free. bc they own it