(This is only a fraction of the work from the semester long project)This semester has drawn to a close, with the final review happening yesterday afternoon. Over the course of the semester, the students were engaged in masqueraded mini-design exercises that secretly showed them how to draw... View full entry
With only a few weeks left in the semester, the students are hard at work developing their proposals. Below are a few small scale mockups that we are using to figure out where the designs need to be calibrated, trimmed, and re-worked before putting them through the CNC machine. (Above, Version... View full entry
The University of Miami School of Architecture lecture series Call To Order continued this past Wednesday when Matteo Ghidoni of Salottobuono addressed a crowd of faculty and students at Glasgow Hall. This was the second lecture in the series, with the first being Nader Tehrani of Nadaaa. Dean... View full entry
Below are some new progress photos taken from last week. I guess that means these would be #latergrams? The development is coming out nicer than the quality of the photo allows. Once this part of the assignment concludes we'll include some professionally scanned images.( egg beater... View full entry
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”- Le CorbusierI start my class every year with that quote to explain to these students the importance of visual communications. Since I've began teaching this course most of the students I get have never had to... View full entry
This blog gives a sneak peak into the architecture world at the University of Miami. What began as an experiment following one group of incoming graduate students through their first semester of design, has morphed into a window of the school of architecture through this professor's eyes. I will try to post as often as possible.
