A couple of weeks ago, my aunt and uncle came to visit. They are my first family members to visit since my parents and sister helped me move in a year and a half ago. They really came for the football game, and seeing me… Read More »A Weekend of Many Firsts: My Aunt and Uncle Visit
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
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
My first year of studying architecture at graduate school is officially finished. On Wednesday, I completed everything and I moved my stuff out of our studio corner. Next year, we’ll be in a different space and a different place. If there’s one thing I learned… Read More »My Architectural Journey: One Year Down
On a snowy Saturday morning on the first weekend of April, I took part in “The Big Event.” The Big Event is a student-run day of service that has grown into the largest event of its kind in the nation (from their website). It’s also… Read More »The BIG Event
Tomorrow is the career fair for the college of Architecture and Urban Studies (CAUS). I’ve only ever been to one career fair in my life and I don’t even remember what year of university it was. I feel like it had to have been freshman… Read More »My Second Career Fair