Archive for June, 2010

Oil, oil, everywhere, and not a drop to drink

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

The BP oil disaster continues, with heartbreaking results. I lived in southern Mississippi for about a year, so this is more personal to me than to most northern boys. I just found a widget from PBS that tells you more or less how much oil has gone into the Gulf ...

Semester wrap-up pt. 3

Monday, June 28th, 2010

This is the third part of a post that starts here, and continues here. In my “standard” tech class, we continued to develop the design of our studio projects from the fall semester. I have to say this was one of the more eye-opening experiences I’ve had at the SoA, which ...

Semester wrap-up pt. 2

Monday, June 28th, 2010

This post starts here. One of the more unusual classes was a tech elective with Doug Garafolo, in which we were supposed to design and build a prototype of a freely selected object that somehow related to architecture. I came up with a modular shelving unit that can in theory be ...

Belated semester wrap-up

Monday, June 28th, 2010

This post comes to you in three more-or-less easily digestible bits, or as one of my professors would put it, easy pieces (choke, sputter). Part two is here, and three here. I had a lot to say at the end of the semester, but unfortunately I had too much to do ...