"It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, or in some perverse mood: but if he escapes from his early influences altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write."George Orwell "Why I Write" View full entry

Episode 14: Don’t Go to Architecture School to Design a 7-Eleven (with Michael Rock) Through Process is a podcast about how we become designers. Your co-hosts are Joshua Namdev Hardisty and Mitch Goldstein. Posted on 22 August 2014Mitch and Namdev are joined by designer, author and... View full entry

FM VIII IS CONCERNED WITH THE MEANING OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY.The dinosaurs of capitalism have become the senescence of urbanism. If the modernist project of carte blanche is over, how do we engage the city’s filthy state without a clean slate? Contemporary architectural discourse has... View full entry

As an imminent MAD Crit student at UIC, I have a desire to learn more about and experiment in writing (aka this blog!). I have never considered myself a "writer," as writing was simply an early education fundamental that I was better at than math. However, what I deem beautiful writing I first... View full entry