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Last day in NYC

So... yesterday was my last day of work. This week has been fantastic. It's got me pumped for next semester. I feel extremely motivated right now. After work they took me out to VISUAL ECHO, an LED lighting exhibit opening sponsered by SKYY Vodka. It was pretty cool.

Coming up here was one of the best things I've done so far in school. I admit that I was extremely nervous when I first came up here; I was unsure of my capabilities as an intern and I was unsure about finding my way through NYC. Now I am sure of both.

So... back to school! I'm gonna start actually using this more of a record of research, rather than a place to post renderings.

So... I'm in New York working with Aranda/Lasch. Today was my first day. Their office is in the Lower East Side; it's small, they share it with a webdesigner. I think that I am the only one working for the two of them right now. They both teach heavily, so their firm is a vehicle for their research/teaching.

They set me up with Rhino and got me working on a facade installation they were asked to do for some AIA building, can't remember what he said. It involved quite a bit of problem solving, which is surprising; usually this type of internship involves big mindless tedious projects. I'm going to be doing a lot of different stuff this week, measuring a loft, building rhino models, physical models, producing working drawings. Exciting stuff.


I'm also working away on the lunch submission... Hopefully I will be ready to produce images by the time I return to Charlottesville.

The break has been fantastic...

I will get around to posting my work from 401. Hopefully tomorrow.

I'm leaving for NYC on Saturday the 6th. I'll be working with Terraswarm from the 8th through the 12th. I'll be back in Charlottesville on the 13th.

I've been pretty busy with reading and researching in the past week, while I wait for the trip. Kashuo has got me reading Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos and rereading Catalytic Formations since I just skimmed through it when I first read it. Lots to think about.

I'm also writing something for the Lunch publication the grad dept. publishes at the a-school. It was originally going to be a simple set of diagrams pertaining to NURBS surfaces but it has sort of exploded. It has become a thesis of sorts. I'm covering technological innovation and how it's affected architecture (digital fab, mass customization, 3-D modeling environments), speculative/experimental technologies, and ultimately architecture as pedagogy. I'm imagining it as a sort of primer of composition. I'm excited to be writing it, but I'm afraid that it is too big of an idea for this type of writing. Eh...