Syracuse University Architecture: We Design Cool Buildings

Parody by Danton Spina of 'We Didn't Start the Fire' by Billy Joel. Performed in the Warehouse (Syracuse University's Architecture School at the time) by Danton Spina, Alex Coulombe, Ian Nicholson, and Rhiannon Laurie, all members of the university's Warehouse Architecture Theatre (WhAT).

Rem Koolhaas, Louis Kahn, Van der Rohe, The Pantheon
Guggenheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier
All-Nighters in Studio, Ink on Mylar, Sudoku
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthean
Eisenmann, Duomo, Bries Soleil, San Marco
Ando, The Fountainhead, and Delirious, New York
Coliseum, Egress, Learning from Las Vegas
Philip Johnson, And DaVinci, Louis Kahn can not eat Pork

We Design Cool Buildings
Its called Architecture
In our Theory Lecture
We Design Cool Buildings
No we dont just print it up
Most times we pin it up

Norton House, Frank Gehry, A stadium for Jay-Z
Perspectives, 3-D drawings, Maison Domino
Bauhaus, Gropius, Villa Savoy, Edifice
Michelangelo, Windows by Palladio

Trajan was in power, Eiffel built a tower
Villa Garche, Ornament, Brunellesci, or a Tent
Axons, Romanesque, Richard Nuetra, Triglyphs
Caffeine pills, Red Bull Thrills, No sleep in the first Year

We Design Cool Buildings
We use an Olfa Blade
Then find a band-aid

We Design Cool Buildings
Need more concentration
With sleep deprivation
Golden Section, Double Square, Ruff has too much hair
Ronchamp, House Two, Structure and the first Louvre

Danteum, Dichotomy, Phenomenal Transparency
Stuttgart, Germany, We know how to Parti
Death of Slocum, Centro bus, en route, Warehouse
Modernist, Violett, Primitive Hut, and Laugier
2B or not 2B, Rosa tells me use 6B
Baroque, Rococo, Casa Del Faccio

We Design Cool Buildings
We have a lecture series
Where there is wine and cheese
We Design Cool Buildings

Check out our café
Then tour our gallery
Pediment, Greg Lynn, Augustus Welby Pugin
Poche, Chalet, Is this all geometry?

T Goodes Clothes are colorful, Linders less than literal
Foam core, Basswood, How do I show Mass/Void?
Junk food, Kamels Dogs, we dont build with Lincoln Logs
I.M. Pei, Long Friday, You know you miss Rob Petrie
Charles Edward Jeanerette, The Ecole des Beaux-Arts
This review is Judgment Day, Its Time to say Au Revoir

We Design Cool Buildings
Its called Architecture
In our Theory Lecture
We Design Cool Buildings
No we dont just print it up
Most times we pin it up
We Design Cool Buildings
But when we are gone
Our buildings will live on and on and on and on and on

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• architecture
• architect
• syracuse
• rosa
• warehouse
• theatre
• casa
• corbusier
• wright

[Aiya721]

Haha I'm gonna apply to Syracuse School of Architecture ;)

[GOTTshua]

Werner Seligmann would not approve. Go slocum!

[MrAnips]

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