Post No Bills

I suppose it's a fair place in time to start talking about school again since I just got the invoice for fall tuition. ANT 254 601 LANGUAGE & CULTURE ARC 401 001 ARCH.DESIGN:URBAN BIO 105 001 BIO MODERN WORLD BIO 106 004 BIO MOD WORLD LAB PE 101 002 FITNESS & WELLNESS SOC 261 002 TECH IN SOC & CULT Look at all those general ed requirements. It was about time anyway. Graduating on time, hopefully. Studio is supposedly set in the downtown location, meaning I...

Bartlett Summer show Highlights

I'm working in London for the summer so I was able to pop down to the Slade School of Art, where the Bartlett Architecture School hold their summer show every year. Peter Cook is no longer the dean of the school and I am tempted to say, things are changing there. Not for the better or worse, the school is just taking a very, very slow curve. Overall the quality of the work is outstanding as usual but, as ever and as everywhere CADCAM seemed to take a stronger hold on the output of work...

Kent Kleinman named Dean of Cornell AAP

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Options Recap - And The 'Individual Genius' Myth

The trip to La Prusia, Nicaragua is finally over and our team of Simon Bussiere MLA, Christine Canabou MArch, Aron Chang MArch, and moi are finally at home. Over the last two weeks and a half we have worked in the design and construction of three projects (maybe four). These projects are a continuation of our 13-person semester-long studio project and I will not describe them here as they are detailed in our blog:

Off to Japan...again.

About 34 hours from now i'll be landing in Japan at 3 o'clock on Wednesday. I know the math doesn't quite add up, but that's what i'm told. I was dumb and will be flying into Narita, so i just tacked on a nice 4 hours and hefty Shinkan-sen ticket to my experience. Next time........next time. I'll be doing an internship for 6 weeks with an architect in Kyoto. It will be quite the experience, considering my Japanese is elementary at best and i can't read kanji, so i will be...

digital pleistocene: sanford kwinter at SCI-Arc

there is yet to be any mention of chreods (i feel it's coming soon), but i found the introduction to this seminar course no less interesting. pleistocene describes the period during which humans evolved into their current form, and kwinter suggests that a return to understanding this primal existence or 'archaic...

crumble = rapture??

i am not a true believer so... it has come to my attention via some astute classmates that rumble falls on 6/6 @ 6pm... yep. that's 666. this is a live webcam image from our studio...

cRUMBLE

So... our "Rumble" space that we are designated to install and present in is the same room that our studio is setup in. Which is fine. The deadline for everything to finish is 6pm on Friday, which also has been known for a while. We install over the weekend. However, somehow some genius in the administration has scheduled professional movers to come in and move our desks out at 5pm on Friday. One hour BEFORE our deadline. Secondly, this issue was brought up weeks ago to...

overheard in perloff

"aren't you worried about that thing catching on fire?" said in reference to pam (the cooking spray) being sprayed on a vacuum forming tool. "does it (PETG plastic) come flat?" "well it comes in long sheets so you probably have to roll it up" "oh that won't do, i need it flat" "well it unrolls" "but it's not flat..."

release the hounds!

i've been reluctant to post any thesis related material on this blog because post like these are so often thrashed for being only a means to solicit research help...please know that this is not one of those post. i think my research agenda is in place (as well as my advisors: juan azulay and tulay atak), but even so, i always welcome constructive feedback. with an entire research semester already behind me, this snapshot is during the initial few weeks of the design semester . the site...

love the smell of laser cutter in the morning... smells like finals.

It's time to start production. Last minute changes are made and panic is setting in. We have exactly a week before our pencils down deadline. We students at Perloff only pray for one thing: (administration, please take note) enough paper products in the bathroom and in the plotters at all times and for someone to be on call to fix the laser if (more likely when) it goes down. I'll see you when the dust settles....

Back to Nicaragua

The semester is finally over and I have to say that it was by far one of the most hectic I have had so far. It was basically 3.5 studios and a couple of things on the side (like trays). Because most of the projects were done in collaborations I cannot put up a lot of the results, but soon I will talk about each...

047 - End of Year Show

Tomorrow night (Tuesday) is the opening, at 5-9pm! Come and see all the hard work the architecture, art, and engineering students have done this year.. it took us a great deal of preparation for the exhibition. The Cooper Union End of Year Show Exhibition Tuesday, May 27, 5:00-9:00 pm, opening night Monday-Friday 11am-7pm, Saturday 12-5pm, closed Sundays and Memorial Day Foundation Building 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue Free and open to the public With...

Ay (c)Rumble....

If you've perused the features section of archinect, you might've noticed the ads running for "Rumble". Rumble is a new fangled idea that's been cooked up to help condense the final review period at UCLA in order to generate a little more excitement and interest. Until recently, reviews were spread out over the week of finals at UCLA. As a result, most students wouldn't go to sit on other reviews as they'd be in the studio working to finish their own projects. And...

newer things

So San Diego is alright. I've eaten a share of burritos and commuted numerous hours a day and walked my first nudie beach(outside the Salk Institute). Miller says "I wonder how Roger Clark would have...

random

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...

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