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Does the administration at A&M believe it's unmanly to hire designers? Are they afraid that an effeminate man may show up and poison their precious bodily fluids?
It's facilities that make a great program and wakens sleeping giants. We shall build a fabulous academic building right beside the practice field for all to see! Texas A&M University home of the Fightin' Texas Aggies from Texas has arrived at last!
Mmmmmkay. I'll call a top architect and designer they'll really--
Just get the same Russian guy who designed the other buildings.
Requirements?
Just make it any color besides that baby shit burnt orange tu uses.
No problem.
So the Aggies go forth and spend tens of millions on a plain brick building with a plain set of builder grade big windows. The kind of thing Texas uses to house utility installations.
I have to think that Adam C. Sinn '00 comes into the picture late. The Aggie engineer/architect was given a piece of paper with the name on it and instructed to add it to the building. An inventive man, the artist uses his trusty ruler to measure the width of the building and chooses a plain blocky font. I will just jam name in space over window. Clients not fancy people. Da!
It's gorgeous. He positions it at the top of the plain not-burnt-orange wall just above the wildly inventive and attractive brownish gray louvered thing that really pulls the design together. Not an inch is wasted with spacing. And, thank goodness!, the whole clumsy title fits!
Mr. Sinn must have his full name, including middle initial, spelled out. Adam C. likes his class year present because it might make people think he is a double nought spy. The whole thing represents the understated way that Fightin' Texas Aggies like to announce themselves. A big, ugly headline, "I'm a Aggie!"
I suppose it was the headline idea that made breaking the building name into lines that fit on the big burnt orange brick side of the wall unthinkable.
Adam C. Sinn '00
Academic and
Wellness Center
or just maybe
Adam C. Sinn
Academic Center
You will be shocked to know that I have no design experience. I should have applied for the job.
[What do you think, William?]