The Owner called with a problem with the doors. First it was getting the door hardware installed on the job - hardware that must be programmed for multiple users to have access into the school with complex software- and now it’s the closure mechanism.
The problem is that the form of the door pull has to [...]
At the same time, I’m learning so much. In just over one year, I can see a tremendous change in myself.
This is a quick section sketch I did of the Paul Sawier public library in Frankfort, KY. I need to go out sketching more to practice those hand muscles, because I felt clumsy and uncertain of myself at this first documentation sketch I’ve made in several weeks.
My section doesn’t capture this well enough to my [...]
I “comprehend” it when I can explain it to you and answer your questions about how it will be built, how I might estimate its cost, and how much load it may carry (based on calculations of the size of the steel).
It’s Saturday, and I woke up at 5:55AM, just five minutes before my two alarm clocks would normally start chiming on my makeshift nightstand during the work week. I actually laughed in bed, because I knew I didn’t have to get up. I tried to reposition the covers, and even switched the blankets between the [...]
I heard an interesting metaphor for an architect’s role last week, and thought it deserved sharing; the architect not only as a renaissance man, but also as a spider. Look carefully at the images from Leonardo’s Virtruvian Man and the first Spiderman comic.
“Renaissance man” is a phrase for an individual with broad intellectual interests in [...]
The previous year in 2009 was absolutely wonderful for me, and the new year already proves promising.
I hesitated in writing this for some time, because I didn’t think I had anything worth saying on my blog, so I kept my mouth and pen closed; I thought that my words had to be this deep, profound [...]
Drum Roll Please….
On Saturday, I graduated from undergraduate with a Bachelor’s of Art in Architecture; it was a wonderful experience to walk across a stage and shake the hand of the dean of the College of Design, and be finished with my undergraduate education!
My family came to support me, as well as my girlfriend, and [...]
Last year and a month ago, I posted a quote from a Modernist architect, Walter Gropius, on the thoughts aboug getting a job. I accepted a position for summer employment, and right now those words seem to ring true to me again. I have put into bold an added emphasis:
Excerpt From Walter Gropius, “Eight Steps [...]
I finished up my summer internship with Luckett and Farley with a great personal accomplishment; I studied and passed the LEED Exam, becoming the first student LEED Accredited Professional in the Commonwealth of Kentucky! It was quite an honor for me, and I hope to be able to put into practice sustainable design into [...]