Tag archive for process

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…

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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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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!…

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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…

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Today we finally split into our groups for the daycare and the planning. I really care about bringing heat into all parts of the daycare. It’s my personal mission. I was excited to talk about that today and head into the daycare to see what…

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I know that I may have romanticized the winding nature of Piletone’s streets yesterday, but really I was just trying to recognize a common ground amoung all humans–through cultures and centuries. There’s a similarity in informal orgnization because there’s a similarity between all of us…

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I just updated the site with a couple of projects I’ve been working on this year. Enjoy! Design/Build   Spring 2012 — Dulce Agua Farms      School Projects   Spring 2012 — Sunflower Chapel, Agua Dolce Farms, Austin, TX; 1,000 sf, chain-link education space…

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Here is a great article from Architectural Record on scope creep and protecting yourself from litigation: The Pitfalls of “Scope-creep” by Robert F. Hermann

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When it comes to architecture, do the ends justify the means or is it the other way around? What exactly is the relationship between process and product? Is process even relevant in and of itself, or does only the final structure carry meaning? Does it…

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