Today was my last final review, this time for Orkan Telhan's Visual Epistemologies class. I'm done! And still exhausted. Here are the remaining slides from my studio presentation from yesterday. I will update this with context and clarifications in the coming days.
Just had my final final studio review of graduate school. More deadlines on the way, so another quick post of a few slides from today. More to follow.
As final projects and presentations descend upon me these posts will include more past work. Today I look at a project from 2007, a wonderful design/build opportunity to construct a park installation in Belmullet, Ireland. The studio was run by Travis Price, an architect working in Washington DC. There were about 11 people in the... Continue Reading →
Another very long week in studio. Here are a few photos from two years back, from a project attempting to map how I read a book and turned a page. This work led to the reading chair mentioned in previous posts.
Another project from Landscape/Urbanism Case Studies, this time in New York City's harbor. A chain of floating levees would serve as pedestrian paths and also convert tidal currents into electrical currents. During a storm event the turbines would close and the levees would rise with the storm surge. This project completed with Rebecca Fischman and Tadashi Kikuno
Here are the last 5 of the 10 image slide show introduction I gave to my classmates back at the beginning of my first grad school studio. As long as the last three years have felt, these 10 images still seem important. Much of the work has receded in importance, but the themes and ideas... Continue Reading →
Tonight I had the chance to reconnect with a few classmates and our first grad school studio critic. Our first assignment of grad school, back in Architecture 501, was to set up and present a 10 image slideshow as a means of introducing us to each other. I'll show my first 5 today and the... Continue Reading →
A few screen shots of a mobile lab for electronic waste processing in Downtown Dhaka. Given how scarce land is, this lab would set up shop under a 'flyover' (overpass), while a permanent shop is built along side it. Eventually, the lab would leave its environmental protection systems behind and take processed material to a... Continue Reading →
Last semester a representation class (landscape sketch class) asked students to think about what an ideal city would look like. The class looked at various cities in Italy, Morocco, France, Switzerland. My ideal city was informed by medinas in North Africa.
Another look at a group project from last year, this time located in Venezuela. Guyana City represents much of what city planners got wrong in the 1950s, with enormous roads and acres of median strips dividing neighborhoods. This scheme, completed with Rebecca Fischman and Tadashi Kikuno, had a series of stadia proposed along the large... Continue Reading →
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