A.S.U - Architecture

I've been interested in architecture since I was a child so I eventually got around to taking some architecture classes at ASU. I discovered that neat printing was a big part of being an architect while, by this time, even I had a hard time reading my hand writing. Still, I took several survey classes and studied many interesting houses you wouldn't really want to live in. Dr. B_____ was my favorite professor as he was opinionated and occasionally nasty which at least made it easier to stay awake through the endless slides. Studying for architecture survey tests was also a new experience. You went to the library and fought your fellow students for access to the slides you had seen in class. Everything was based on slides.

The last final I took in the Architecture college was my favorite. Dr. B_____ knew his students were in the library trying to memorize his slides so he decided to throw us a curve. Instead of the slides we had seen before, in the final he showed us slides of buildings whose designs was derived from or copied from the buildings we had studied. For example, the Tempe city hall is very similar to the unbuilt design for a museum we had studied by a South American architect. The decorative sun shades at the Metro Center mall in North Phoenix are very similar to elements of buildings Le Corbusier designed for Chandigar in India. I've since noticed there is a PG&E substation in San Jose that is copied from one of the governmental buildings at Brazilia and thought of sending him a slide but I don't know if he is still teaching. 

What amazed me was how many real architecture students were dismayed by this trick. There was an audible gasp from many mouths and you could sense the desperation in the room during the test.