Things Architect Should Know

Morning..
Yesterday, I read an article about Things Architect Should Know. There are 250 things! For the first time i was like "You suree?" But then I think, it should be more that 250 in real life. Well, since i'm an architect student, i need to understand them as soon as possible. Okay, that would be great.

1. The feel of cool marble under bare feet;
2. How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months;
3. With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week;
4. The module of rupture;
5. The distance a shout carries in the city;
6. The distance of a whisper;
7. Everything possible about Hatshepsut's temple (try not to see it as 'modernist' avant la lettre);
8. The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City;
9. In your town (include the rich);
10. The flowering season for azaleas;
11. The insulating properties of glass;
12. The history of its production and use;
13. And of its meaning;
14. How to lay bricks;
15. What Victor Huga really meant by 'this will kill that';
16. The rate at which the seas are rising;
17. Building Information Modeling (BIM);
18. How to unclog a rapidograph.
19. The Gini coefficient;
20. A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old;
21. In a wheelchair;
22. The Energy embodied in aluminum;
23. How to turn a corner;
24. How to design a corner;
25. How to sit in a corner;
26. How to Antoni Gaudi modeled the Sagrada Familia and calculated its structure;
27. The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda;
28. The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses;
29. The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi;
30. The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers;
31. The basics of mud construction;
32. The direction of prevailing winds;
33. Hydrology is destiny;
34. Jane Jacobs in and out;
35. Something about feng shui;
36. Something about Vastu Shilpa;
37. Elemntary egronomics;
38. The color wheel;
39. What the client wants;
40. What the client thinks it wants;
41. What the client needs;
42. What the client can afford;
43. What the planet can afford;
44. The theoritical bases for medernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections;
45. What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building;
46. Another language;
47. What the brick really wants;
48. The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed;
49. What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri;
50. What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe;
51. What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge;
52. Where the CCTV camera are;
53. Why Mies really left Germany;
54. How people lived in CatalHoyuk;
55. The structural properties of tufa;
56. How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil;
57. The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells;
58. Vitruvius;
59. Walter Benjamin;
60. Marshall Berman
61. The secrets of the success of Robert Moses;
62. How the dome on Duomo in Florence was built;
63. The reciprocal influence of Chinese and Japanese building;
64. The cycle of the Ise Shrine;
65. Entasis;
66. The history of Suweto;
67. What it's like to walk down the Ramblas;
68. Back-up;
69. The proper proportions of a gin martini;
70. Shear and moment;
71. Shakespeare, etc;
72. How the crow flies;
73. The difference between ghetto and a neighborhood;
74. How the pyramid were built;
75. Why;
76. The pleasures of suburbs;
77. The horrors;
78. The quality of light passing through ice;
79. The meaninglessness of borders;
80. The reasons for their tenacity;
81. The creativity of the ecotone;
82. The need for freaks;
83. Accidents must happen;
84. It is possible to begin designing anywhere;
85. The smell of concrete after rain;
86. The angle of the sun at the equinox;
87. How to ride a bicycle;
88. The depth of the aquifer beneath you;
89. The slope of a handicapped ramp;
90. The wages of construction workers;
91. Perspective by hand;
92. Sentence structure;
93. The pleasure pf a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal;
94. The thrill of the ride;
95. Where materials come from;
96. How to get lost;
97. The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space;
98. What human differences are defensible in practice;
99. Creation is a patient search;
100. The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte;
101. The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering;
102. My ideas about what constitutes utopia;
103. The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon;
104. Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque;
105. How to derive;
106. Woodshop safety;
107. A great deal about Gothic;
108. The architectural impact of colonialsm on the cities of North Africa;
109. A distate for imperialism;
110. The history of Beijing;
111. Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century;
112. Aristotle's Politics;
113. His Poetics;
114. The basics of wattle and daub;
115. The origins of the balloon frame;
116. The rate at which copper acquires its patina;
117. The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin;
118. The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon;
119. Where else to sink it;
120. The fire code;
121. The seismic code;
122. The health code;
123. The Romantics, trhoughout the arts and philosophy;
124. How to listen closely;
125. That there is a big danger on working in a single mdeium. The logjam you don't even know you're stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation;
126. The exquisite corpse;
127. Scissors, stone, paper;
128. Good Bordeaux;
129. Good beer;
130. How to escape a maze;
131. QWERTY;
132. Fear;
133. Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Banares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan;
134. The proper way to behave with interns;
135. Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever;
136. The history of big machines, including that can fly;
137. How to calculate ecological footprints;
138. Three good lunch spots within walking distance;
139. The value of human life;
140. Who pays;
141. Who profits;
142. The Venturi effect;
143. How people pee;
144. What to refuse to do, even for the money;
145. The fine print in the contract;
146. A smattering of naval architecture;
147. The idea of too far;
148. The idea of too close;
149. Burial practice in a wide range of cultures;
150. The density needed to support a pharmacy;
151. The density needed to support a subway;
152. The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce;
153. Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes;
154. Capability Brown, Andre Le Notre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx;
155. Constructivism, in and out;
156. Sinan;
157. Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents;
158. The history and techniques of architectural representation across culture;
159. Several other artistic media;
160. A bit of chemistry and physics;
161. Geodesics;
162. Geodetics;
163. Geomorphology;
164. Geography;
165. The Law of the Andes;
166. Cappadocia first-hand;
167. The importance of the Amazon;
168. How to patch leaks;
169. What makes you happy;
170. The components of a comfortable environtment for sleep;
171. The view from the Acropolis;
172. The way to Santa Fe;
173. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World;
174. Where to eat in Brooklyn;
175. Half as much as a London cabbie;
176. The Nolli Plan;
177. The Cerda Plan;
178. The Haussmann Plan;
179. Slope analysis;
180. Darkroom procedures and Photoshop;
181. Dawn breaking after a bender;
182. Styles of genealogy and taxonomy;
183. Betty Friedan;
184. Guy Debord;
185. Ant Farm;
186. Archigram;
187. Club Med;
188. Crepsule in Dharamshala;
189. Solid geometry;
190. Strengths of materials (if only intuitively);
191. Ha Long Bay;
192. What's been accomplished in Medellin;
193. In Rio;
194. In Calcutta;
195. In Curitiba;
196. In Mumbai;
197. Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.);
198. Why you think architecture does any good;
199. The depreciation cycle;
200. What rusts;
201. Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard;
202. How to play musical instrument;
203. Which way the wind blows;
204. Theacoustical properties of trees and shrubs;
205. How to guard a house from floods;
206. The connection between Suprematists and Zaha;
207. The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha;
208. Where north (or south) is;
209. How to give directions, efficiently and courteously;
210. Stadluft macht frei;
211. Underneath the pavement the beach;
212. Underneath the beach the pavement;
213. The germ theory of disease;
214. The importance of vitamin D;
215. How close is too close;
216. The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer;
217. The draught of ferries;
218. Bicycle safety and etiquette;
219. The difference between gabions and riprap;
220. The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall;
221. How to open the window;
222. The diameter of the earth;
223. The number of gallons of water used in a shower;
224. The distance at which you can recognizr faces;
225. How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good);
226. Concrete finishes;
227. Brick bonds;
228. The Housing Question by Friedrich Engles;
229. The prismatic charms of Greek island towns;
230. The energy potensial of the wind;
231. The cooling potensial of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect;
232. Paestum;
233. Straw-bale building technology;
234. Rachel Carson;
235. Freud;
236. The excelennce of Michel de Klerk;
237. Of Alvar Aalto;
238. Of Lina Bo Bardi;
239. The non-pharmacological components of good club;
240. Mesa Verde National Park;
241. Chichen Itza;
242. Your neighbors;
243. The dimensions and proper oreintation of sports fields;
244. The remediation capacity of wetlands;
245. The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges;
246. How to cut a truly elegant section;
247. The depths of desire;
248. The heights of folly;
249. Low tide;
250. The Golden and other ratios.

Holly. Gotta catch'em all!