My third (and final) year at GSAPP just began, and I am trying to savor every moment.  I love grad school so much I don't want it to end! This semester, the design studio I am taking is focused on death, or the "uncertain certainty of our mortality."  We are studying grief, cemeteries... View full entry

One of our tasks in the Columbia Building Intelligence Project (CBIP) Studio was to master CATIA, an advanced engineering/CAD/management/scripting application that has been used to manufacture jet planes.   The software is INCREDIBLE, and its possibilities for architectural... View full entry

My weekend homework for Cinematic Communications (an elective class):  Film an inanimate object and give it human-like attributes using montage. (1-2 minutes) View full entry

"Standoff"

This is the prototype I worked on for "Beyond Prototype" (a visual studies elective taught by Jason Ivaliotis) with Bo Liu, Lalima Chemjong, and Michael Gonzales.  Our project, called "Aperture Cells," is a self-supporting component-based partition system constructed out of (3) 1/2&rdquo... View full entry

I spent the weekend in FabLab (aka woodshop) to make a prototype for a metal lamp (inspired by a flower bud) with my group members (Phillip Crupi, Alexandra Milo, and Jessica Kuo).  It began with the conversion of our Rhino/Grasshopper files into a software called Mastercam: This is the... View full entry