Brief background/experiences
I graduated in Dec of 09' with a degree in Landscape Architecture from Florida International University. At the end of my junior year I received the Florida ASLA Honor Award for a project called Mimetic Morphologies in Roberto Rovira's Design 6 studio. I began a series of part-time jobs, the more stable of which was at Arquitectonica Geo. During that time, I also collaborated with MONAD Architects (most notably on their PS1 short-listed entry) and PIEStudio. The latter involved an awesome two months of late-night trash-rummaging in order to create a series of design objects for an exhibition on PIEStudio's furniture and the nature of repurposing in general at BridgeGallery in the LES. During my senior year I began to take up voluntary TA positions in various electives and studio courses. With an initial list of about 6 schools I wanted to apply to: Harvard, UPenn, SCI-ARC*, Pratt*, Columbia*, Princeton and AA, I only managed to apply to three*. I got into all three but after Columbia's orientation I was pretty much done.
