2013-05-19T16:28:37-04:00 http://archinect.com/blog/article/21449806/back-to-work-at-the-gsapp-week-one JA 2005-01-28T17:44:42-05:00 >2011-09-23T13:01:02-04:00 <img src="http://files.archinect.com/uploads/ai/aiu_firstweek.jpg" alt="image" name="image"><br> The Mac is Back!<br><br> So it's Friday... and the first full week of Studio has just passed. In about 20 minutes, everyone will converge at the weekly "6 on 6" affair... meaning 6pm on the 6th floor of Avery... there will be an assortment of sometimes good but mostly bad beer, some pretzels, chips and cheese. There will be an insane amount of badly dressed, amazingly dressed, and black-cladded architecture students trying to fit tightly in the compact "foyer" of the 6th floor. Rejoicing about the end of the first full week of school.<br><br> Some students are clueless about their new studios. Their professors are equally clueless as well. The two Macs... William MacDonald, and Andrew MacNair are back to teaching what they know best and what they are truly passionate about: "Computer" and "Not Not Computer" (respectively).<br><br> I am in the Andrew MacNair "Not Not Architecture" studio and the theme is all about you, you, you, and only you... and your work. Which is great, because I believed t... http://archinect.com/blog/article/21449745/first-week-of-school JA 2005-01-22T15:34:50-05:00 >2011-11-24T09:05:52-05:00 <p>School is back in session at Columbia. All lotteries occured this past week when all studio professors attempted to make some sort of presentation about their intent for the graduating class. Most of them were incoherent, some were gimicky, others were pretentious name-droppers to validate their position at the podium showing off their books in print. (NOTE: Name dropped, "Koolhaas", books showed off: 1 book, Title, "NOX".) So that is that. Out of 16 professors for the graduating class, which includes Hawkinson (Tomato Studio), the NOX Guy, Karl Chu (Chile and Argentina), William MacDonald, Hani Rashid, David Turnbull, and Ed Keller...the studio with the most votes from the student body (67 votes out of about 150 students) was of course... Steven Holl who had the most straightforward presentation. Building. Prague. Kafka Building. Program. Trip to Prague. All student work to be exhibited in some museum in Prague.<br><br> In the end... most people got what they wanted... I got w...</p>