Architecture Surveys

Buildings don’t spring up overnight. Creating a building is a long process: going from sketch, to blueprint, to foundation to finished product takes hours of intellectual and physical energy. It’s a highly volatile and collaborative process, and finishing is truly an accomplishment. Which is why it’s so terrible when you’re done and everybody hates it. Luckily, this ignoble sequence can be neatly avoided by perusing architecture surveys.

For writers, a bad paragraph or page is but a delete key away from being whisked out out of existence. For painters, a shoddy canvas can be chucked into a dumpster or given to an elderly relative with flagging sight. Wallpaper can be stripped, furniture rearranged, end tables replaced with the newest models. (more…)