Graduation It’s amazing how quickly time goes by. Three years and seven semesters later, my time in Blacksburg has come to an end. Graduation took place last Thursday on May 9th, and now with my thesis (Electronic Thesis Dissertation) successfully submitted and approved by the… Read More »Three Years in the Making: Graduation and Thesis
A few months ago I read the book, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. The book is a gripping account of the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in the late 1980s. The conglomerate comprised of the iconic food company Nabisco and R.J… Read More »A Day Trip to Winston-Salem
Virginia tech is known for having great dining hall food and in 2014 gained national recognition when it claimed that top spot out of 396 colleges as the best campus food in the nation by The Princeton Review. However, now other schools have caught up… Read More »Dining at D2: A VT Dining Hall Experience
Every year there is a weekend architectural competition in Virginia hosted by The American Institute of Architects. This year’s took place two weekends ago, from February 2nd to the 4th. It started at 5pm on Friday and concludes at 9am on Monday. It included five… Read More »AI’s Role in Architecture: 2024 AIA Competition
It is in human nature to seek the restoration of architecture that has been destroyed. Often, the immediate response is to reconstruct the destroyed structure as was, as quickly as possible to suppress and erase the trauma of destruction by eliminating its visible scars. As… Read More »Rebuilding Narratives: Rebuilding Spaces
As I approach my last semester, it’s astonishing realize that I have only one semester remaining to complete my degree. The journey began in the Spring of 2020 when the idea of pursuing this path first crossed my mind. Looking back, four years will have… Read More »From Idea to Reality: A Four-Year Architectural Adventure
For my thesis, I engaged in four design competitions over a span of four weeks, effectively transforming each competition into a design charrette. A charrette, characterized by its brief and intense nature, serves as a focused period of design work, aiming to foster creativity, refine… Read More »From Devastation to Reflection: Architectural Responses to Tragedy
Ten years ago, I started this blog. It’s been a decade of blogging. I wrote my first blog post just before I left to get my TEFL (teach English as a foreign language) certificate in Costa Rica. To quote my past self, “I am not… Read More »A Decade of Blogging: Reflecting on the Journey
This exploration in rebuilding marked a departure from my research-oriented work. It started on September 18th and revolved around the concept of altering something that was destroyed. At the beginning of the semester, I focused on collaging destroyed buildings, classifying them into four categories: war-induced,… Read More »An Exploration in Rebuilding: The Destruction of 3 Cubes
Mastering the Tools of Architecture To succeed in architecture school and the profession, you have to not only learn how to make architecture, but also learn how to master the programs that aid in idea generation and project visualization. Luckily, there’s a multitude of platforms… Read More »My Software Learning Odyssey: Mastering the Tools of Architecture