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What's ludicrous is acting certain when you obviously don't have any experience with the site. I looked through that site for a few hours, at some point during

What's ludicrous is acting certain when you obviously don't have any experience with the site. I looked through that site for a few hours, at some point during the past year. It's very insightful and addresses one of the most difficult aspects of design thinking, namely when to use conventional forms and when to violate them.

Steeeve 9y ago
Provide a link to the post that you feel most exemplifies the site's educational value containing information about architectural concepts, urban planning, environmentalism, or history.
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- threepipeproblm 9y ago
  I guess you can't be bothered to look for yourself, so here is a recent post about architecture concepts. http://mcmansionhell.com/post/161514422581/mmh-does-architectural-theory-part-5-empiricism http://mcmansionhell.com/post/161514422581/mmh-does-architec... There are many such posts (explicitly theoretical/academic) in the site's history. More importantly, the day to day "McMansion" posts actually back up the theoretical concepts expressed in such posts. Much the way we programmers use both positive and negative examples of Design Patterns. If you are not aware -- and it seems like you aren't -- the Design Patterns movement in software was inspired by an architecture book that did much the same thing -- showing patterns and anti-patterns -- just with less hipsterism, and more examples than counterexamples.
  - Steeeve 9y ago
    That post provides no educational value whatsoever.
    - threepipeproblm 9y ago
      Lol I don't believe it's worth my time to argue this further, since you haven't made any actual arguments, and you come off as kind of a jerk with all the unsupported claims, not responding to my points, and demanding that I do work for you. Sorry you are blind to this. If you want to understand your deficiencies in this area I'd recommend reading A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, followed by Design Patterns by the 'Gang of Four', then thinking about the connection between architectural pattern languages and cutting edge software design. Perhaps think about why programmers have taken the time to assemble libraries of anti-pattern examples specifically, analogous to McMansion Hell's.

Steeeve 9y ago

Provide a link to the post that you feel most exemplifies the site's educational value containing information about architectural concepts, urban planning, environmentalism, or history.

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threepipeproblm 9y ago
I guess you can't be bothered to look for yourself, so here is a recent post about architecture concepts. http://mcmansionhell.com/post/161514422581/mmh-does-architectural-theory-part-5-empiricism http://mcmansionhell.com/post/161514422581/mmh-does-architec... There are many such posts (explicitly theoretical/academic) in the site's history. More importantly, the day to day "McMansion" posts actually back up the theoretical concepts expressed in such posts. Much the way we programmers use both positive and negative examples of Design Patterns. If you are not aware -- and it seems like you aren't -- the Design Patterns movement in software was inspired by an architecture book that did much the same thing -- showing patterns and anti-patterns -- just with less hipsterism, and more examples than counterexamples.
- Steeeve 9y ago
  That post provides no educational value whatsoever.
  - threepipeproblm 9y ago
    Lol I don't believe it's worth my time to argue this further, since you haven't made any actual arguments, and you come off as kind of a jerk with all the unsupported claims, not responding to my points, and demanding that I do work for you. Sorry you are blind to this. If you want to understand your deficiencies in this area I'd recommend reading A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, followed by Design Patterns by the 'Gang of Four', then thinking about the connection between architectural pattern languages and cutting edge software design. Perhaps think about why programmers have taken the time to assemble libraries of anti-pattern examples specifically, analogous to McMansion Hell's.