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johndevlin

based upon the posted profiles here I see there are members from the following places: Denmark, Wales, Scotland, Massachusetts, Kentucky, New Zealand, Philadelphia, La Paz, Puerto Rico, Idaho, Vancouver, London, Paris, Toronto, Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, as well as, of course, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and San Francisco.
But what about: Russia, China, Japan, S. Korea, India, Africa, the Muslim nations? Anybody with posted profiles from these latter countries whom I have left out or not noticed?

 
Aug 16, 05 12:54 pm
EcoArchSefa

GHANA

Aug 16, 05 1:14 pm  · 
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larslarson

i know theres someone from sweden and i think someone
was saying they were working in norway as well.

Aug 16, 05 1:21 pm  · 
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sharpie.

jd, you obviously have`nt been reading enough archinect, i can recall a few.
INDIA- sameolddoctor (base not known), minimal animal, sporadic supernova, manuG, chameleon...
JAPAN- guiggster...
S.KOREA-a few
DUBAL- lots

Aug 25, 05 8:38 am  · 
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sharpie.

sorry, DUBAI

Aug 25, 05 8:39 am  · 
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tokyo.

Aug 25, 05 8:50 am  · 
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hm, now i think on it, the architects i work/socialise with regularly are from holland, japan (of course), singapore, thailand, germany, Norway, sweden, France, UK, Portugal, + me from Canada. which is pretty impressive, really.

do architects travel more than other professions? Or is this sort of thing common in every field.

Aug 25, 05 9:01 am  · 
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the cellardoor whore

the muslim nations?
what, they don't warrant individuality?
pray, what is a 'muslim nation'?

Aug 25, 05 9:05 am  · 
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BOTS

...that would be a nation based on Muslim values and doctorine e.g. Iran, UAE?

Don't see many posters from these countries.

Aug 25, 05 9:13 am  · 
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the cellardoor whore

a 'nation' is not an islamic notion to begin with. there is the organic 'umma', and that unites all muslims. in fact, pan-arabism (an ideology on par with nationalism) or the specific nationalism of the country finds itself in direct conflict with islamism on many points. the extreme example would be baathist iraq and syria.
but the tensions are virtually everywhere, especially in the north african countries.

but perhaps you are correct in citing iran as a muslim nation since the islamic jurisprudence is the regime's. but i think this is only possible through strict ie dictatorial rule and control. and in this world, dictatorship is a very temporary thing...it invited violence from within and from without. iran, as it is now, is still too...unsettled to be a nation.

i am not too sure of the uae, but it seems the more coherent it is as a nation, the less 'islamic' its getting.

i find it stupid that anyone would call a country (not to mention a nation..a suspect naming to begin with) christian or muslim or jewish anymore. a hundred lashings to the next broadcaster who calls israel 'the jewish state'. its just lazy and uncreative.


Aug 25, 05 9:58 am  · 
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job job

i am from the great muslim nation, Islamabad

my friend doug is from the spanish-speaking nation, Hispania

my other friend doug is from that south-side antipodean nation, Kylieworld.

bots is from, of course, the islands of England

get the lash!!!

Aug 25, 05 10:02 am  · 
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BOTS

agreed. New descriptions needed I think.

Aug 25, 05 10:04 am  · 
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BOTS

agreed with the cellardoor whore that is.

snowi - you are just trying to rial me with talk of English Islands, in the same respect Pakistan is a colony of the English.

Aug 25, 05 10:09 am  · 
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the cellardoor whore

kylie sucks

and swallows

i don't

heathens!

Aug 25, 05 10:10 am  · 
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FrankLloydMike

I'm from New Hampshire (though I go to school in Boston), which although not its own nation technically, does preserve the right to revolution! Vive le Republique New Hampshire! one can dream.

Aug 25, 05 10:21 am  · 
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mauOne™

La Paz is the city Bolivia the country, by the way, i've been drooling with google EARTH whenever im not archinecting, and im wondering if there's a way for people to pinpoint their locations onto a file that can be shared, that could be fun.

also i've been remembering my bicycle days in tokyo and i cannot find certain recent buildings, how old are the google earth images of tokyo, anyone know ?

Aug 25, 05 10:24 am  · 
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job job

you got it BOTS - it must wind you up like nothing else when you hear it from ignoramii.....

o yeah, this is in jest, by the way (sorry i refuse to emoticon)

Aug 25, 05 10:24 am  · 
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hey mau,

yeh it seems a few years out of date, but my flat is there. in fact the planning all finally made sense when seen from above. google earth is a nice bit of software indeed.

Aug 25, 05 11:50 am  · 
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johndevlin

the cellardoor whore: apologies for offense given if not intended re: "the muslim nations". I guess the only muslim theocracy is Iran. there are constitutional theocracies, such as the UK, where the head of state is also the head of the established church and rules by divine right of kings. BOTS please correct me here. However, in the UK it is murky because the noble in charge of coronations, the Duke of Norfolk, is a Catholic. the Queen is unelected and "defender of the faith". So in a limited way the UK could be called "a Protestant Nation". although in practice everyone knows that the UK is a western liberal democracy. Still in the UK there is no structural separation of Church and State: so it is a theocracy, like Iran, in a purely technical sense.

Aug 25, 05 1:36 pm  · 
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I miss the Mongolians that used to live on my block back in the 1970s. Diva, next door, is from Jamaica, and the guy out back across the driveway who is always fixing someone else's car(s) looks distinctly of somewhere in south central Asis, but he's here from Trinidad, and he told me the Indians (that bought their house from one of my first cousins twice removed) themselves moved back to India. The Colombian women up the street moved downtown a few years ago. The Portuguese woman with the bootleg beauty parlor in her basement doesn't take as much care of her front garden as she did last summer. If you need some Haitians that would make excellent body guards, I know several. I haven't heard the Cambodians across the street play that strange temple chant music late at night recently, and that "old man" three door up from Hong Kong still pretends he doesn't understand English. Have any of these people every visited Quondam - A Virtual Museum of Architecture? Probably not. So close and yet so far.

Aug 25, 05 2:17 pm  · 
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