Obama is delivering the commencement speech for Barnard College Class of 2012. Right. NOW.
Being here is AWESOME.
Live Webcast:
Days that lead up to Final Review can be very intense. I took this documentary footage in the CBIP Lab last week. (*Note: While filming, I was waving my arm around and making silly faces to see what would happen.) Then, I used the footage combined with other clips to make a...
A Weekend in CBIP Lab, 2 days before Final Review
Mission: Distract Humanoids
One of our tasks in the Columbia Building Intelligence Project (CBIP) Studio was to master CATIA, an advanced engineering/CAD/management/scripting application that has been used to manufacture jet planes. The software is INCREDIBLE, and its possibilities for architectural...
My weekend homework for Cinematic Communications (an elective class): Film an inanimate object and give it human-like attributes using montage. (1-2 minutes)
"Standoff"
This is the prototype I worked on for "Beyond Prototype" (a visual studies elective taught by Jason Ivaliotis) with Bo Liu, Lalima Chemjong, and Michael Gonzales. Our project, called "Aperture Cells," is a self-supporting component-based partition system constructed out of (3) 1/2&rdquo...
I spent the weekend in FabLab (aka woodshop) to make a prototype for a metal lamp (inspired by a flower bud) with my group members (Phillip Crupi, Alexandra Milo, and Jessica Kuo). It began with the conversion of our Rhino/Grasshopper files into a software called Mastercam: This is the...
This is what Saturday night at 11:30pm looks like in 2nd-Yr Studio. As you can see, 4 out of 4 students are not smiling. While my classmates were working hard on architecture, I was trying to decide what to do for "Parametric Realizations" class. From the syllabus by Mark...
Chalkboard turns into ping pong table at Avery Hall (Michelle vs. Damon): CBIP Lab, where I will be spending most of my time this semester: For Parametric Realizations class, we were assigned to make a box, and spend no more than 1 hr working on it. This is Paola's...
This is a journal of my adventures at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) as I pursue my M.Arch degree. It will include images of my projects, classmates' work, some thoughts, architectural debates, and grad-student daily life.
