What makes a good architecture professor isn’t much different from a non-architecture professor. Architecture is unique in that it’s poised between being an art and a science. Buildings need to stand up, and for that there are structures and with it engineering, loads and things… Read More »What Makes a Good Architecture Professor?
Concrete is the only material available without an inherent form. It’s the architect’s dream material, making it capable of taking the shape and modulations imposed upon it. Its expressiveness, fluidity, and dynamism are only some reasons it’s continued to be used today. Casting with concrete… Read More »Casting with Concrete: Lessons Learned from Crafting Breeze Blocks
One of my favorite things about DC was the access to an abundance of free museums. The past couples years, I haven’t had very many museum going opportunities. Covid was a contributing factor. There is a museum in Roanoke, the closest city to Blacksburg that… Read More »Museuming Around DC: A Summer of Artful Adventures
At the beginning of the summer, I set a goal to sketch every day that I was in DC. It wasn’t for graduate school, or for any particular class, nor was it a requirement for my internship, but rather something I wanted to do. We’ve… Read More »77 Sketches | 83 Days
Today marks the end of an internship. I wasn’t hired to be a marketing intern, but I ended up as one. I was meant to spend half the summer in the office working with the estimating department and the other half working on a job… Read More »The End of an Internship
I’ve finally gotten Covid. When I wrote my first blog post on it. I never would have imagined we’d be where we are today. The ignorance in my post is embarrassing, but how could I have known? To be fair, the world was in a… Read More »Catching Covid
D.C is one of the most highly concentrated cities in the U.S for buildings in the architectural style known as Brutalism. These buildings are easily recognizable by their use of unfinished concrete in massive and monolithic proportions and their rigid and geometric style. They are loathed… Read More »Beautiful Brutalism
The beginning of a day of luck Since I have moved to D.C, I have been trying to visit a different Smithsonian museum each weekend. A few weeks ago, I went to visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture with my friend… Read More »A Day of Luck
I’ll be in D.C. for the summer working as an intern at a general contracting firm called GCS-SIGAL. I’ve been here for almost three weeks and I already love it. Other than a weekend visit to see my friends and cousin years ago and a… Read More »D.C. For the Summer
Form Follows Fiasco is a book by Peter Blake that criticizes modern architecture. Peter Blake was a modernist architect and a prolific author. The book was published in 1978, so some of his arguments may no longer be valid, however a multitude still holds true.… Read More »Book Synopsis: Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn’t Worked