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a couple of images mostly just setting up cameras.

Taking a vacation!

Gosh, where to start indeed. For the past 5 years, I have been working non-stop, juggling between work and school is no fun at all. There are times where I wonder what a real architecture school-studio experience is like. Its hard to actually explain the situation here at the BAC, till you really experienced it. But it involves a lot of multi-tasking. And sometimes because you're doing so many things at once, the quality of work doesn't show through at the end. In any case, I've gained a...

In Which A Forest Shutters

This gem comes as an aside in a longer email from the GSD listserv:

"in the 36 hours from Friday 5/2 - Monday, 5/5, ~1000 color plots were printed in preparation for this week's presentations.

Exactly zero of those were mine. Thesis reviews are (mercifully) still more than a week away...

and just like that ...

... 7 years come down to 14 days. i've been painfully lax on the bloggage this semester. i'll do a recap once i turn in my thesis book (the 22nd, but untill then here's really the only image that matters at this point: and here's another one that matters less, but it's a sketch render i...

almost there

Tons of videos but no time to edit them until my final paper is finished. I recently presented my final proposal for our Norfolk courthouse project, which I have to admit went well compared to last semesters Rubik�s cube bashing, which to this day I feel is a valid programming tool. As always there are some things that must be �expanded� on. I haven�t blogged in a while and I felt the need to participate. I�m posting images of my courthouse project from midterm to final�.well minus my...

amongst the constellations

So things are wrapping up around here. Our studio took down the installation yesterday and now we're brainstorming where to install some of the scraps... There is a video of the crane work involved, and approximately 4 gigs worth of photos to go through. NewRaleigh put up an article on it, too. www.newraleigh.com/articles/archive/massive-metacube/ We had a review on our documentation...

More Tokyo...

So we've been here six days now and it's been a whirlwind of subways, getting lost in prefectures, documenting urban conditions, photographs, walking for miles and miles a day and late nights drinking. The wheels are starting to come loose and might fall off if we keep this pace up. Tomorrow's our last full day in Tokyo so we're trying to make the most of it before getting back to LA. We've gotten to see some amazing projects and it's been an incredible trip. Learned a lot of the...

Not dead yet

Not quite, anyway, even if I have 157 hours until turn-in (thus the 5am posting time). There are many reasons I haven't been posting more regularly (that is to say, at all), none of which are particularly good, so I'll just move on to what I'm doing right now: a neighborhood civic center in Boyle Heights. I'll post some images and explanation when I'm done, but here's a little structural preview. It's about as...

Deep Green - Renderings Complete

At long last I have finished the new renderings of Deep Green for my portfolio. As usual, I have been shirking my duty to update on a timely basis, and as usual, I will return to post updates, reflections, writings, etc. Probably after graduation in early June. ...

And.... we're back OR Tokyo, Japan, Day 0.5

Back with the blog. Sorry for the hiatus... In Japan right now for a weeklong+ excursion for studio. Going to start the touring today (Monday morning). We left Saturday from LAX in the afternoon and arrived Sunday (Japan time) in the late afternoon. Didn't get to see too much as we were all exhausted from the trip and it was dark. Took a bus in from Narita and got into our little youth hostel where we're staying. I'm jet lagged so I woke up super early. It's still only 7 am... but...

STUDIO GANG /// METACUBE?!?!??!

Jeanne is probably one of the healthiest architects I've seen come out of OMA and do her own thing. I don't remember much of the lecture, but talking to her was a really refreshing experience. It was interesting having her lecture after Prince-Ramus(REX); definitely a good contrast. So lecture series is over. Our studio just finished an installation in the Brooks Courtyard entitled metacube. It's big and rotated. I'll...

Name these two architects

A few months back we had a very nice lecture by a certain architect. He's in the photo below. Can you name him? :P And his Functionalist buddy? Discuss....

Help...

This is an open call to anyone who has diagrammatic sections and plans for the Experience Music Project in Seattle. I am in desperate need of some. Will trade booze, porn, candy, coffee beans or anything else you all might be into.... :P

Poetics vs Poetry

Tzonis' lecture was on systems, analytic to heuristic to.... analogous and didactic. He spoke at length about processes, poetics vs poetry, and briefly about his case study, Calatrava. Structuralism, joy, were all mentioned in the process. I really like him. He's writing a book about forgotten participants in architectural history... a few of which taught at NC State, which put him in the archives for most of his time...

Learning from Nicaragua - La Prusia

We recently came back from a week studio trip in the neighborhood of La Prusia in Granada, Nicaragua. It was a great trip, the group bonded in 95 degree weather, hour-long trips in the back of pick up trucks, dirt roads, and interactions with the community of La Prusia. The most heartening was the interactions with the community, on one day we had over 200 people come out to tell us what they want in their community. In this meetings we heard something that reinforced a hunch I had from...

Radiohead Video Contest

Far From Equilibrium

So Sandford Kwinter, an associate professor at Rice, released his new book last night� Far From Equilibrium. Sanford spoke to us about the ideas behind the book. He said it contained the answer to a question he had always wished someone would ask him. (Someone) Sanford, what do you think has been the one defining concept of the 20th century? (Sanford) Chreods!

Parking Deck Piazza, Pt 1

The semester is coming to a close, and we kind of have a final project. Maybe. More of a charrette, another one. More of a charrette because of the time span, not the project itself. Well the project is vague in a lame way. A recreation center(bullshit?) with no fixed program, just a menu to pick and choose(bullshit?). It's also pseudo mixed use due to a requirement of retail space(no fixed sq footage) and due to the site(Glenwood Ave? Path? Border? Neighborhood? Urban?...

trays - Launching the GSD Student Journal

trays, the new web-based GSD student journal is launching officially today. The name was changed to trays to better represent the intent, to fulfill the goals of communication and discourse that are embedded in the design of our building, Gund Hall, and its open tray system.

Sir Peter Cook| SUPER HOUSTON

A gigantic pink and fluffy feather duster came to tickle the RSA this evening.... and it was superb. Sir Peter Cook shared his experimental vision of what could take place under the tree canopies of 'Super Houston'....