so, it's roughly 36 hours before I'm scheduled to lasercut my final model, and I think i've finally got something... over the course of the studio, i've been torn between two different lines of inquiry... 1) folded floor plates and 2) facade patterning. I've been trying for weeks to get the two to...

two weeks to go.... still working things out....

The Earth is not flat. Parallel lines are concentric circles. Perpendicular lines are vectoral forces. I present: Maison Polaire. masion polaire (Earth radius=6000km) masion polaire (Earth radius=25m) masion polaire (Earth radius=10m) Maison Polaire on several different sizes of Earth (left to...

[midreview 081029 | Studio Critics Dan Wood & Amale Andraos of WORKac, Guest Critics Zach Snyder, Nick Gelpi, John McMorrough, and Ashley Schafer of the KSA] Last wednesday, we had our Mid-quarter review with Dan & Amale, immediately before their presentation for the KSA Lecture Series...

I have midreviews this afternoon. Somewhat unprepared, so I'm cribbing a page from the Bjarke Ingels Playbook: More LENS FLARE! More FILM GRAIN! Yeah!

So, next week is the mid-review for our studio with Dan & Amale of WORKac... I'm a bit behind after playing hookey last Tuesday to drive down to see Jose Oubrerie's Miller House and the University of Cincinnati Campus, but I've got the next few days free to come up with something. So far: The...

Last week, in his Introduction to Architecture course (I sit in just for kicks), Jeff Kipnis argued that the Leaning Tower is the precedent for all that wacky architecture we love so much. I'm beginning to agree. The tower doesn't just lean, as it would if it had been deposited fully formed on...

Some brief updates - -Kipnis is teaching Introduction to Architecture, and they're recording it. It will be available on iTunes sometime in the near future. -The studio has signed up to officially enter the competition we're taking on this quarter. Details at http://www.darbayrut.org/intro.html...

So, this first week of class is just wrapping up, a few hours to go until the welcome back bbq, and i've got a better idea of what this quarter will entail.... My schedule is fairly open - our studio instructors are visiting professors Dan Wood and Amale Andraos of WORKac, who will be here for...

Counting down... Classes start next Wednesday. I've been pretty busy these last few weeks - a trip to Venice for the Biennale preview, prepping for a team meeting with Jacques and Pierre, followed immediately by the annual HdM staff party.... and now after a day of recovery I'm packing up my tiny...

(image from flickr/mlindqvist) During the second half of Summer Quarter, 2007, I had the opportunity to work with Jeff Kipnis and Jose Oubrerie on a documentation project. My task was to sort through piles of old sketches, an endless succession of rolled construction documents, several of Jose's...

Autumn Quarter Classes begin on September 24th, 2008. I'll post a proper introduction shortly thereafter (Once I know whose studio I'm in...). In the meantime, here's a sampling of what I've been doing for the past 16 months since I was last in class.... Part I: June-July, 2007. A few days in New...