A website called 'Planninglove.org' has come up with quirky, nerdy, funny e-cards that ooze romance in complete architectural language. The website claims that it is devoted to "V-Day cards for planners, architects, urban designers, landscape architects, transportation engineers, and those who love them"
The cards are designed to blend architectural jargons with love.
One of the cards shows a large heart with a zonal map engraved on it. Below the caption reads:
"My heart is zoned exclusively for you".
Another one shows a Zaha Hadid style building plastered with tiny little red hearts. The caption reads:
"You are the starchitect of my life".
That's not all. There is a card that has a picture of Taj Mahal, the quintessential epitome of love (a wonder of the world) with "Let's take this relationship from concept to construction" captioned below it.
There are other mushy ones that say 'You're so hot, you make my sea levels rise' and 'baby, I'm a heat island for you'.
At the bottom of the website, the creators Anirvan Chatterjee and Barnali Ghosh attribute their inspiration to TazzyStarShop's #MuslimVDay project and Jeff Speck's book on urban planning "Walkable City".
Tazzy's cards are unique. On her commercial website, she writes:
Are you a Muslim that finds it difficult to find that perfectly snarkily witty Valentine Day card that conveys the exact emotions you feel of love in the time of a racialized, islamophobia-ridden America? This series of #MuslimVDay Valentine Day cards will solve that problem for you.
Meanwhile, Speck's book elaborates on what mayors, planners and architects need to incorporate in the streets of a city. He writes in the prologue of the book:
We've known for three decades how to make livable cities- after forgetting for four- yet we've somehow not been able to pull it off.
Planninglove.org combines Tazzy's customized cards with Speck's humorously clever book on urban development. The result: V Day treats for architects all over the world.
However, Planninglove.org is not the industry's first attempt at inviting cupid in total building-nerd style. Back in 2012, architect Jody Brown also made up some e-cards that used clever wordplay with the names of architects like "If loving you is Wrong then Frank Lloyd Wright".
The cards went so viral that it even became a trend on twitter: #architectvalentines.
