Archive for the ‘Archinect School Blog Project: Kent State University (Micah)’ Category
We’re about one month deep in the IDC project now, and after a few different working schemes, I think our project is progressing in a solid direction. The project location is Washington D.C. On the Anacostia river waterfront within the The Yards currently being developed by Forest City as part of a larger scheme to redevelop [...]
A little tidbit from the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. DO YOU HAVE A CLEVELAND STORY TO TELL? Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative is organizing a StorySlam on February, 24th at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Coventry Center to gather place-based stories to include in their upcoming journal entitled Cleveland Stories: True until proven otherwise… [...]
Wowww, in true school blogger fashion I completely dropped the ball on posting last semester. However, if I may formulate an excuse, I knew if I tried I wouldn’t post anything other than cynical, jaded rants…and regret them later. For my devout readers to be brought up to speed… (go to article)
I hate school. I’m stressed to the max. I don’t know if anyone else gets to their fourth grueling year of school and feels as “over it” as I do (senioritis I suppose), but watching the deadline for dropping all my classes consequence-free come and go during the first all nighter of the semester tested [...]
He told me that most people he brings there are less than excited about the place; they simply don’t understand and probably find his enthusiasm cheesy. But I was bursting. I hadn’t been off the plane for more than an hour and the first thing I saw after exiting the train station was a mountain [...]
Around the end of this past semester a giant inflatable torus was brought to life on the Kent State campus, a product of the Operative Detailing seminar led by Jason Turnidge. Since I was in Italy, I couldn’t be there at that time, however much to my delight, the big plastic fun house was re-inflated [...]
With a little over a week to go in Italy, instead of soaking up every last minute of our time here, we are all scrambling to produce a project for reviews on tuesday (or wednesday?…..shit.) Concurrently, a competition, Usa Firenze (see that, a play on words), has been announced in collaboration with AND magazine. All [...]
In between jet setting across Europe, I’ve been devoting (some) time to my studio’s proposed project for Florence, a new Mediatheque located within the walls of the Fortezza da Basso. From the syllabus, under the guidance of Alberto Francini. // (go to article)
This semester has been a strong test of my general approval of architecture, and more specifically, my place within it. Of course, I’m not talking physical architecture here, but rather the industry, practice, and teaching of architecture. To sum it up neatly, I’ve realized for myself, like so many before me, that architecture is a [...]
Any attempt at writing a cohesive narrative at this point would be fruitless, therefore I’ll save myself the trouble and resort to a bullet-point list of updates. The following takes place between January 16th and March 2nd, 2010. > Began class six (quick) weeks ago with Kent’s Florence Program. I thought I was only taking [...]
For someone who has never been abroad (okay, I’ve visited Canada but we can all agree that hardly counts), studying in Italy this semester is a big change. And being transplanted from cow-town Ohio, maybe even more so. Orientation week started Monday. This is meant to help us in our transition to Italian life, and [...]
We were only able to release one issue of t r a c e this semester. It is somewhat of a disappointment, but it’s hard when we as a group are unsupported, underfunded, and attempting to actually do something outside of the studio bubble. So to everyone who did devote time to our cause, thank [...]
I have no idea what ‘Loop’ we are technically working on currently in this project. If I had to guess, I would say I’m in the loop where one swirls around in a confused stupor, much like a giant toilet bowl, before being deposited into a heap of disappointment and well, shit. I’ve pretty much [...]
So now I take the reigns. I suppose I’ll begin by introducing myself. I’m a third year student in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University. I’m in the Honors College here as well as devoting some of my time to our student organizations > AIAS, CASU, and t r a c [...]
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