Hi Dov
When I moved my office about 7 years ago, I had decades worth of material to consider - magazines, walls covered with framed project photos, another wall covered with notes/accolades/clippings; and many file cabinets filled with painstakingly cataloged articles, clippings and so forth (dating back to long before the days of internet ready access to information).
I tossed all the mags on the theory that anything in there would probably be found on line.
I also decided to NOT rehang decades worth of framed old project photos but could not bear to simply throw that away. I pondered what to do and came up with a rather curious solution. I decided to put my 'old' work in the toilet'. Literally.
I had a very high ceiling and large toilet room in my new office that was as blank a canvas as any. Having determined that the old work was 'baggage' that I did not want to be defined by, but too precious to toss, I completely covered all the walls of that room with it, from top to 12 foot ceiling.
Being president of my local AIA component at the time, I wrote a short piece titled 'My Work is In the Toilet' . It was illustrated with a photo taking from an ants eye view (very wide angle) of the walls densely hung with framed projects; in the foreground on the edge was a white object - barely recognizable as a toilet fixture profile.
Measured by 'click throughs' this became the most highly posting ever by my local component, perhaps a reflection of curiousity about how an AIA Chapter president might want to 'shout out' that his work was 'in the toilet' LOL.
Cheers and good luck
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Michael Malinowski AIA
AIACC President Elect
Applied Architecture, Inc.
Sacramento CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-21-2015 09:42
From: Dov Hadas
Subject: What to do with Old Magazines?
In the process of moving to a new office I am clearing most of paper drawings, cataloges, samples, etc.
I can't bring myself to chuck years of Architectural Record, PA, and so on,
Looking for some words of wisdom, Anybody?
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Dov Hadas AIA
Architect/President
Studio Hadas
Oceanside NY
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