“This ‘perfectionist gene’ that too many young women have holds them back, and instead they should be really aiming for ‘good enough.’ You don’t have to be perfect.” —Hillary Clinton It reminded me, of course, of studio culture in architecture school….
I’ve gotten the chance to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, the Robie House, twice now. Once in winter and once in summer. Both times, it was stunning.
This is an oldie, but a goodie. My studio professor in Fall 2013 was John Ronan of John Ronan Architects. He designed the Poetry Foundation, located in the Near North neighborhood of Chicago, IL. These photographs are from September 2013, when Ronan gave us a…
On my way home from Seattle and my internship at Olson Kundig Architects, I stayed in Los Angeles for a couple of days and made my way to Griffith Observatory. Beautiful! I am such a sucker for planetariums and observatories, not to mention beautiful Art…
All interns at Olson Kundig Architects are required to give a 25–30 minute presentation on any topic to the entire firm. It can be used to to discuss their own thesis, show their background to the firm, share non-architecture work, or talk about some other…
I’m currently reading Architecture: A Woman’s Profession, edited by Tanja Kullack. One of the first quotes in the book are by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang and it so eloquently expressed why I want to be an architect, I thought I’d share it:
As part of my studio with John Ronan this semester, we started with material studies. Since our project this semester is about transforming an urban site into a final resting place for Chicago’s unclaimed dead, my material was also about how to use something eminently…
This semester I’m taking a studio with John Ronan from John Ronan Architects. We’re designing a cemetery and chapel for the unclaimed dead of Chicago. As I was working through some site strategies in the early part of the design process, I realized how much…
Loren’s and my book is finished and published! You can order copies of the book, or look through a full preview by clicking the cover above. Loren and I initially ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund this project. We were heading to Argentina with…
Two weeks before our final reviews, the five studios for first and second year graduate students come together and present section or elevation drawings rendered either as orthographic projections or perspectives. One of our professors, Michael Benedikt (you can buy his book, For an Architecture…