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 →
A year ago I took a very interesting class called Case Studies in Contemporary Urbanism, Landscape Architecture and Design, taught by Jonathan Barnett, David Gouverneur and Aron Cohen. As part of the class students broke off into interdisciplinary teams (the class was a good mix of architects, landscape architects and urban planning students) to complete... Continue Reading →
Two projects from back in sophomore year, fall semester, the first full time studio offered in at CUArch for undergrads. (They have since shuffled around the curriculum so as to offer more studio in the first year. I haven't seen recent student work but the administration is sticking to that schedule and seem satisfied with... Continue Reading →
This daily blog was intended to allow me to break up the creation of a portfolio into manageable pieces, and to that end I will show a few projects from my time as an undergraduate student at CUArch in Washington DC (under the guidance of studio critic and Assistant Dean Michelle Rinehart). This first project... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 