原文出处: http://0rz.tw/sMoKi (ARCHDAILY) 中文试译: The Indicator: 101 Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School03Dec 2010By Guy Horton — Filed under: Featured ,Misc , The Indicator This article is co-authored by Sherin Wing 1] Even if your boss is your friend he may have to axe you to save his business. 再要好的老板都会裁员 2] Read the book, On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt. Carry it with you. It’ s pocket-sized. 随身携带"论废话"这本小册 3] Do not drink at work and especially do not get toasted around your colleagues under any circumstances. 工作时禁止喝酒,任何情况都禁止被敬酒 4] No matter how highly you may think of yourself you may still be a minion in the eyes of others who hold more power than you. 无论多麽自负,都会有人当你是奴才 5] Once you leave architecture school not everybody cares about architecture or wants to talk about it. 只有在建筑学校里,人们才谈建筑 6] All eating habits and diets acquired during school should be jettisoned. 在校养成的饮食习惯要紧急抛弃掉 7] The hygiene habits you kept in architecture school are inappropriate for real life; bathe regularly and change your underwear. 在校养成的卫生习惯不适用真实生活,请洗澡与更换内衣裤 8] The rush and exhilaration you experience in studio may be inversely proportional to how much you will enjoy working for a firm. 工作室里的充实和快乐与业界里的成反比 9] It’s architecture, not medicine. You can take a break and no one will die. 这是建筑,不是开刀;休息一下,没有人会死 10] Significant others are more important than architecture; they are the ones who will pull you through in the end. See 49. 重要的人比建筑重要,他们会在最後拉你一把 Keep reading after the break. 11] Being smart and having advanced degrees can make you a better designer. 聪明点,有个高学历会让你成为更好的设计师 12] The industry underpays. Push for what you are worth. 尽力争取你真正值得的薪资 13] Mind your internet traffic at work unless you are certain your office does not have someone monitoring. Of course you should be working every minute, so this goes without saying. 工作时别乱上网,除非很确定没有人监视 14] Go home to your family. 记得回家 15] Call your loved one’s frequently. 经常打给你爱的人 16] If you are working overtime, the firm buys dinner.* *Contingent on office policies, of course. 事务所传统:加班会供应晚餐 17] Don’t keep a mayline screwed to your desk. They are not cool and they date you. The same goes for colored pencils. 桌上不要常驻以下物品:游标尺及彩色铅笔,免得你跟它们约会 18] Get the biggest monitor you can. 加大你的萤幕 19] Do not, however, ask for two monitors. Even though it makes you look like a bad-ass you will be expected to do twice the amount of work. 申请第2台萤幕除了让你变成浑蛋,还会增加第2份工作 20] Make sure team roles are clearly defined. 先确定团队的角色已清楚定义了 21] Know what your role is. 先确定你自己的角色是啥 22] Be careful with emails. If in doubt, don’t send. 谨慎使用e-mail,不要乱寄 23] At times respect and civility seem to be scarce commodities in architecture. 有时候,礼貌跟尊敬是一种稀有商品 24] Be cautious of “opportunities” that do not pay. 当心那些赚不到钱的商机 25] Sometimes the most critical person on your jury might actually be right. 有时候,最凶的评审才是对的 26] Understand how your office is run as a business and how they go after projects. 先了解你的公司忙时与闲时怎麽营运 27] It is best to keep your outside activities quiet. 对私生活的最佳政策是低调 28] Your boss reads your blog. 你老板会读你的网志 29] Pyromania, car soccer, and other antics you made up to amuse yourself at 3 am are not actually normal. See 49. 放把火,开汽车踢足球,还有其他半夜3点自娱的把戏真的不正常 30] There are no architectural emergencies that should make you completely give up your life on the outside. That may have been the ethos in studio, but don’t carry it into the office. 这是建筑,不是危机;不要把学校那一套带进公司来 31] Be suspicious if your firm expects you to work long hours of overtime for no compensation. Be doubly suspicious if they justify it by saying things like, “It’s just part of the learning curve” or “We had to go through this, too.” 不要相信加班没有加班费的说法,更不要相信公司为此作的解释 32] If a police officer pulls you over on the freeway for doing 90 mph on a Sunday morning while heading into the office, it’s time to re-evaluate your priorities. 假日早上为杀去公司而被条子开超速罚单时请重新思考到底什麽才重要 33] Know who the decision-makers are. 先了解谁是最後作决定的人 34] Don’t dress like an intern. See 72. 不要穿成像实习生 35] Read Dana Cuff’s Architecture: The Story of Practice. 请读这本书"The Story of Practice" 36] Expect to be regarded with suspicion if your undergraduate degree is not in architecture. 非建筑系的出身是一定会被质疑的 37] Don’t be seduced by mere appearances. 不要被外型骗了 38] If your firm is outsourcing work to save money, be concerned. 请当心如果公司正在搞外包 39] Architecture firms can have multiple glass ceilings. Be aware of them all. 建筑事务所可以有玻璃天花板,但请小心 40] If a principal of a firm sees making coffee or moving boxes as beneath him/her, consider looking for another office. 如果老板鄙视倒茶水或打杂的,请考虑换公司 41] If a principal doesn’t say good morning when you say good morning to him/her, consider looking for another office. 如果老板漠视你的早安,请考虑换公司 42] When firms advertise themselves as think tanks or research labs, ask them specifically what it is that they do. And most importantly, make sure they pay. Well. 公司以智囊团或实验室自称时,确定一下他们实际上在做什麽, 更重要的是,确定他们付你薪水 43] If you are invited to be on a jury, don’t trash the student just to make yourself look good or to contradict a rival on the jury. Be constructive and try to help the student. This is the point. 如果你受邀去评图,不要只是电学生或跟其他评审吵架,作点有建设性的事 44] Subvert the signature of the software, unless you consciously want the architecture to convey this signature. 把软体的特徵消掉,除非你要用建筑来表达这个特徵 45] Architects are in a service industry. They provide services to clients. 建筑师是服务业人员 46] In proportion to their pay, architects require the most education, most training, and the most exams to become licensed professionals. 建筑师需要的教育,训练,考试与待遇成正比 47] Don’t be a Typhoid Mary. When sick, stay home. 生病请待在家里,不要来传染给别人 48] Embrace the business-side of architecture. 请接受建筑汲汲营利的一面 49] If you are an architect you should automatically qualify for psychotherapy and medication. 如果你是建筑师,你自动有资格接受精神治疗 50] Most architects believe they were destined to become architects because of their early childhood experiences. They showed signs of architectural greatness at a very young age. This is a myth that reinforces an unhealthy hero complex. See 49. 大多数建筑师自小就自负成为建筑师,他们从小就展露了在建筑上的成就 这种神话强化了这种不健康的英雄情结 51] Architecture in the academy is completely removed from the profession. Likewise, the values within the academy are radically different from the values within a firm. 学界跟业界,是完全不同的两个世界 52] Be cautious about applying theory to space. 把理论化成空间时,请小心 53] Do not take design strategies or operations learned in studio too seriously. 不要把学校里那一套看得太认真 54] Know the difference between architectural celebrity and actual worth. 先了解建筑大师跟实际价值的差别 55] Read books with words, not just pictures. 看书不要只看图 56] All firms are different. Shop. 每间公司都不同,多比较 57] To save time, assume your wife is right. 为了省时间,请假装你太太是对的 58] Do not date an architect unless you are certain he/she is able to maintain a healthy life outside of architecture. See 49. 请勿跟建筑师约会,除非你确定将来会有个健康的下班生活 59] Architects should not intermarry. Inbreeding is not good for the gene pool. See 49. 近亲结婚对建筑的基因繁殖是坏事 60] If you are married when you go to architecture school, studio ends at 7:00. 如果你念建筑时已婚,那下课时间是七点 61] Do not buy into the fashion of the moment and simply dismiss certain architects without examining them for yourself. 不要只追随潮流而忽略了可能对你有啓发的建筑师 62] Architects who do not build things also have important things to say and should be listened to. 不盖房子的建筑师也会有值得一听的话 63] If your studio instructor is a recent graduate, be alarmed. 请当心如果你老师是刚毕业的菜鸟 64] Do not obsess about sustainability to the exclusion of other factors. 不要被绿建筑迷住而忽略其他因素 65] Renderings done in China are so last year. 中国作的渲染都过时了* 66] If you start a think tank make sure you have some thoughts to put in it. 如果你创了个智囊团,确定你有些想法 67] Read Rem Koolhaas, but do not obsess and fantasize about being him. Delirious New York is still relevant. 读读库哈斯吧,但不要太入迷,"癫狂的纽约"这书仍意义重大 68] Archi-babble does not make you sound cool. 建筑腔听起来并不酷 69] Keep in touch with everyone you know, especially if they aren’t in architecture. 请与所有人保持联络,特别是非建筑人 70] In fact, make friends who are not architects. 事实上,跟非建筑师交朋友比较好 71] Do not wear the same shoes every day, They will start to smell. 不要每天穿一样的鞋,会臭 72] Make sure your jeans are up-to-date. No acid-wash. No baggy. 穿最新的牛仔裤来 73] The economically distressed urban zones you can afford while in school are not gentrified just because you and your friends have moved in. 经济萧条的地区并不会因你的搬入而被重建 74] If you must read Italo Calvino, read more than just Invisible Cities. 如果你必须读卡尔维诺,不要只是读"看不见的城市" 75] Expect a period of post-traumatic stress disorder after you graduate. Do not make any important decisions during this time. 毕业後会有一段日子像得了创伤後症候群,那阵子不要作什麽重大决定 76] Don’t get a dog just because you are lonely. 不要因为寂寞而养狗 77] Architecture is fueled by fetishes—rectilinear designer eyewear, for instance. 建筑因物质上的迷恋而被重新补充燃料,例如看见了直线型的眼镜 78] When trying to decide if a theory book is good, check the bibliography first. 参考书目决定了一本理论书的好坏 79] Listen to your elders. They are wise. 听听长辈的话,他们比较有智慧 80] FAIA can mean different things to different people. 每个人对FAIA这缩写的解读都不同 注:可以指美国建筑师协会会员 81] If you already have a B.Arch, consider further education in a different field. Your M.Arch. can’t make a real contribution to the field if you’re just showing off software skills. 建筑系毕业的人请考虑念别科硕士,建筑所的酷炫软体能力并不能造成实质贡献 82] Always back up your hard drive. 永远备份你的硬碟 83] Embrace social media, but don’t be its bitch. Only tweet/post when you have something important to say. 请接受社会媒体,但不要沦为其打手;只发表重要的话 84] Architecture firms should consider forming economic alliances similar to OPEC. 建筑事务所应该结盟成像OPEC一样的组织 85] Even if you don’t like the look of someone’s architecture they may have something valuable to teach you. 你不喜欢的建筑仍有可学习之处 86] Great architecture, like great art, tends to arise from deep psychological issues. See 49. 伟大的建筑像伟大的艺术,倾向於从深层的精神议题里浮现 87] The eighties and postmodernism were not all bad. 80年代和後现代主义其实没那麽糟 88] Being avant-garde is a choice that should be evaluated. 当前卫派是个值得被评估的的选择 89] Architect’s web pages are often out of control and take too long to load. 建筑师的网站常失控且读取缓慢 90] In one’s life there are a finite number of all-nighters one can pull. You probably used them all up in school. 一个人一生的通宵次数有限,你在校时都用光了吧 91] Understand the contexts from which modernism arose. 请了解现代主义兴起的原因 92] When the economy is good architects can rely on experience to run firms, but when the economy is bad they need advanced business skills they may not possess. 景气好的时候,建筑师靠经验经营事务所,景气差的时候,他们需要的是更好的商业策略 93] Architecture is dependent on boom and bust cycles. 建筑依赖於经济繁荣与萧条的周期 94] Good design is not necessarily the most important factor in running a successful architecture firm. 好的设计不是成功的事务所的最重要关键 95] Branding is important. 品牌很重要 96] In a corporate firm, those at the top are not necessarily the best but they may have been there the longest. 公司里那些上位者不一定是最强的,但他们可能是在那个位置待最久的 97] Being good at software does not make you a good architect. 软体能力很强不代表你是好建筑师 98] Architecture is cliquish. 建筑是有派系的 99] Many architects do not live in houses designed by themselves or other architects. 很多建筑师不住在自己或其他建筑师设计的房子里 100] Architecture office parking lots communicate success. There should be at least a couple high-end luxury cars. If there are a lot of beaters, be wary. If all cars are beaters, don’t go in. 成功的建筑事务所的停车场会有几部名车,如果机车很多,请当心,如果全是机车,不要应徵 101] Be concerned when you are too idle at work. 请当心如果工作时太无所事事 -- *65这一条小弟真的看不懂 --

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