Will Kirsch

masters of architecture student at taubman college | policy wonk | aesthetic clown

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

@alixabeth (2/2) or straight up refuse to work with/support these people in hopes of gradually shifting the schools ecology?

I certainly have my opinion, but wanted to share our ongoing debate with you hahaha

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

@alixabeth (1/2) We have lots of conversations in my circle about the level of complicity students / young professionals have in working with these people, or taking positions at reputable firms with questionable labor practices.

Do we get more social capital now and change things later

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

@alixabeth If I may add to this…many of the male mentors in my masters program with cults of personality also have some of the highest complaints of sexual harassment / misconduct against them. I’m sure that abuse of power isn’t limited to architecture…

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Family member just told me that they thought that getting tenure means that I have a job for ten years.

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

If you’re an architecture schools whose printers work on the morning a review you’re doing something wrong

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

@GeoffBoyardee no.

[jorts 🇵🇸 @ftmensch]

if the “boss makes a dollar, i make a dime” line was real amazon workers would all have 19 billion dollars. if the “boss makes a thousand and gives me a cent” line was real, amazon workers would all have over 100 million dollars

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This is not complicated. If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, you do not have a viable business model.

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

Call me crazy, but i don’t think students should be accountable for assignment specifications not outlined in either the syllabus or the assignment brief

[Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social @jennifernvictor]

Very flexible job. You can work any 60 hours you want each week.

[Casey Neistat @Casey]

I got a new computer and out of laziness I've been using safari. I like it. is there any reason not to use safari?? (I was using chrome)

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

@kurtisconner Come Ann Arbor!!!!!

[tenant unionist @tenantunionism]

If you don't pay rent, your city gov will come against you with armed force to remove you from your home/shelter. If your landlord neglects your home, steals from you, discriminates against you, fails to fulfill their obligations, your city gov will...do basically nothing, tbh

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

Rant over, this is what I think about when I should be doing studio.

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

Even though this is ultimately a drawing addressing drawing convention…I am in love with its composition, saddened by its illegibility to non-insider audiences, but uncompromising in my belief in the power of paper architecture

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

Images like this are what many “outsiders” miss out on in the discipline. In many ways (high theory) architecture schools are technical liberal arts programs with a pedagogy challenging current and ushering in new forms of governance…

[Will Kirsch @wmkirsch]

My favorite part of the architectural academy is it’s proliferation of paper architecture. In my opinion this drawing by Bryan Cantly is far more poignant than any classical precedent.

[John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner]

Hunter S. Thompson wrote this one week after 9/11, basically called what the 21st Century would become

[DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo]

"Technologists, including some representing companies that make web browsers ... say [Google's] browser-based Privacy Budget concept is “vague” and “not useful.��

@KateKayeReports on Google's "scramble to advance ad targeting and measurement methods": https://t.co/8Ts9N2cxzP