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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…

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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…

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Well, I’ve finished my first year of graduate school, survived, and am possibly even more in love with architecture than before. I added my final project of the semester, a zen retreat center located in a wildflower preserve.   Spring 2012 — Floating Zen Retreat,…

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