well, ladies and gents, it’s a very exciting moment. school’s out–forever! i’ll definitely miss my friends of–can you believe it?–six years. they’ve taught me a lot and i’ll be sad not to see them every day. i hope we’ll all keep in touch. we had our final, ah, final review on thursday (and again on friday as one juror was a bit day late). compared to the rest of the reviews i’ve had this semester, it went pretty well. our jurors were also excellent–particularly incisive was the commentary of two principals of the paris-local firm kilo, linna choi and tarik oualalou. they presented that wonderfully elusive admixture of criticality, humor, and optimism that can really carry a jury. their work is also pretty exciting, so check it out! and of course, with the last day of school (ostensibly forever) comes the terrifying moment of the search for work. i’m looking at a few firms in europe already, but the states are hardly out of the question. perhaps more excitingly, i’ve finished work on my brand-spankin’ new barch graduate portfolio! i hope you enjoy and (as i haven’t printed yet), any comments (positive or otherwise) are extremely welcome. just shoot me an email. in the meantime, i’ll be tuning up the work section of the site a bit to ready it for this new addition. next up before a triumphant (though possibly temporary) return to the us of a? an ecstatically exciting trip to amsterdam, copenhagen, oslo, bergen, and (potentially) belfast, delft, goteborg, rotterdam and a few other places. everybody wish me luck! (…mostly in retrieving my eurail pass from DHL at this point)
hey thur tru believers!
i do believe my colloquialisms are growing more and more out of control every day. on the bright side, perhaps i will someday become something like walt kelly (not to be confused with walt disney…more on that later). so basically, these past few weeks have been crazy with a capital C. first, i made a stab at the KPF traveling fellowship, which is this ultra-competitive travel grant open only to architecture students from a select list of about 20 schools countrywide (of which rice is one). it’s hard to find data on entrants, winners, or even the contest itself (probably the latter is not made publicly available because the competitions itself is not publicly available, so to speak). one of my coworkers pithily observed that “the crazier the better” as far as portfolio for grants go. if that’s true, perhaps i will be a shoo-in. ha ha. not. but fingers crossed. either way, i have to pass muster at rice’s selection committee first (rice is only allowed, or only chooses, to put forth two applicants from within its own ranks). i’m going up against a lot of super-talented, super-amazing, accomplished people so i don’t doubt that i will probably not even be put forward by my school as an applicant.
my travel proposal centered on the relationship between technology and design methods/thought. i’m expressed interest in visiting religious, civic, and industrial sites (primarily modern / post-modern) and representing or mapping them in ways other than those they were conceived (i.e. topological unfolding, reflectivity mapping, or fourier “waterfall” maps of sound inside them). i was hoping to work in some information about cultural identity and the attitudes people have towards their design (cultures). the idea is that some kind of narrative would emerge from this. anyway, i put together a kind of cool portfolio centering around these ideas and sent it off to texas. checkit!
