“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….
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…
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…
I just added one of my studio projects from this semester. I’m a bit behind though, I still need to post my design/build work from this summer in Argentina, as well as 2 more projects from this semester’s studio. I will be doing that soon!…
Field trip day! The train ride down to La Plata was uneventful and very cheap. Actually, the hour and a half train ride cost less than our Subte ride to the train station. It cost us each only 2.10pesos. I don’t know how they’re able…
Hardware store day! Everyone kept talking about this place and I kept assuming that it was named “E-Z.” It absolutely never occurred to me that it would be the English word “easy.” I made friends with the tree dudes at the paint counter. We picked…
We’ve been designing. What a relief. April was great at taking charge today in the library of Los Piletones. First we all brainstormed together of the many ways in which we could intervene. After that, we decided what were the 8 most important things to…