This time of year my office is flooded with greeting cards wishing us a ‘Happy Holiday’, ‘Merry Christmas’, or ‘Seasons Greetings’. Now that there are websites that allow people to pick a theme, upload their own photos and create a customized card, there seems to be even more that come in. Personally, I love them. It’s fun to see how people have aged over the last 12 months and hear about the adventures of their families and businesses. Going through my daily stack, I got to wondering …
What would the holiday cards from my favorite architects look like?
Well, that would be a lot of work and I had fun thinking about it, but during my hunt for photos, I started to wonder what sort of holiday captions could I put on these cards? If I drank more and got my office buddy Scott Taylor to join in, I’m quite sure these would be a lot funnier (and probably a lot dirtier – some days I wonder what is wrong with me..)
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![Architect Paul Rudolph](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Paul-Rudolph-ornaments-on-tree.jpg?resize=550%2C430)
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![Architect Marcel Breuer](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Marcel-Breuer-Charlie-Brown.jpg?resize=550%2C660)
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![Architect Carlo Scarpa](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Carlo-Scarpa-nativity-scene.jpg?resize=550%2C425)
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![Architect Philip Johnson](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Philip-Johnson-baby-Jesus.jpg?resize=550%2C554)
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![Architect Leon Krier](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Leon-Krier-Freeze-Miser.jpg?resize=550%2C550)
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![Architect Alvar Aalto](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Alvar-Aalto-made-out-of-brick.jpg?resize=550%2C418)
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![Architect Alvar Aalto](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Alvar-Aalto-brick-state-of-mind-2.jpg?resize=550%2C418)
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![Architect Le Corbusier naked](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Le-Corbusier-naked.jpg?resize=550%2C637)
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![Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Ludwig-Mies-van-der-Rohe-arm-rests.jpg?resize=550%2C490)
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![Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Ludwig-Mies-van-der-Rohe-tree-grid.jpg?resize=550%2C490)
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![Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Ludwig-Mies-van-der-Rohe-the-tip-of-this-finger.jpg?resize=550%2C490)
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![Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Ludwig-Mies-van-der-Rohe-sure-I-like-elves.jpg?resize=550%2C490)
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![Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Ludwig-Mies-van-der-Rohe-Santa-never-came-to-my-house.jpg?resize=550%2C490)
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![Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Ludwig-Mies-van-der-Rohe-Ill-decide-when-Ive-had-enough-egg-nog.jpg?resize=550%2C490)
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![Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Architect-Ludwig-Mies-van-der-Rohe-I-love-egg-nog.jpg?resize=550%2C490)
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Come up with your own caption in the comment section at the end … you might come up with one that I think is so funny that I’ll send you a t-shirt for making me laugh.
Merry ‘last day of work before’ Christmas … I know you aren’t really working today.
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