#architecture grad

[prick-love-for-arting]

Fun fact, I've been finishing up my undergrad and ended with an apartment complex as my final project

[questwithambition]

The Grad Life - day 8/50

Another Monday, and I was genuinely excited to go to work. Treated myself to a coffee and croissant on my way in, had a long but good day (finally moving on from training and doing actual project work!), and afterwards met up with a friend and went to the most beautiful pub. It was cold but the sky was stunning ☁️

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

miles being me during my classics degree:

[thesimperiuscurse]

LILA OMFG CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! no offense but werent you JUST entering school not too long ago when we were both On Simblr?? THE PASSAGE OF TIME...???? congratulations again on the huge milestone of graduating ❤❤❤ i wish you the best on the path ahead of you and i am so happy to see that you are surrounded with love!! GO FORTH AND FLOURISH! 🥳🥳🥳

Omg thank you so so much, amazing lovely Nectar 🥹 Your support is always so appreciated ❤️ It's crazy how time flies, from starting Simperius as a silly 16 year old, to completing a Masters, ready to finally bring my dreams to life 😭 And it's been an incredible journey with you and everyone else who I've met on simblr! We've truly had such fun times on this hellsite (despite the many complications our games and lives has thrown at us) 💕

[retrogeographie]

La Queue en Brie, quartier des Bordes.

[jamesvin-varsity]

i left zookeeping for architecture because i became interested in how the built environment beyond the zoo could better serve local wildlife. how could we design our architecture, infrastructure and public spaces to work with natural environmental processes and build positive multispecies partnerships? how does the design of the building change when you consider the sparrow as your client? the coyote? the soil micro-arthropod?

this is obviously no new concept. cultures past and present have been living successfully with nature for millennia, but modernity has smothered much of the real human symbiosis within local ecosystems in favor of limitless growth and profit and oppression. take "sustainability", which in architecture often (though not always) results in renderings of luxury condominiums with Capitalism-Approved-Green photoshopped onto every balcony.

in my architecture studios i communicate through image. drawing. i try to separate myself from this lazy greenwashing aesthetic, researching local species assemblages to get my planting schemes somewhat accurate, considering hydrology on the site, considering local communities and how Something Green could drive up real-estate and force people out.

i try to, but at the end of the day my project is still an image and i’m still photoshopping plants onto a building. most architects aren’t really making buildings. they’re making drawings of buildings.

don't get me wrong, the image is a powerful thing. design is a powerful thing. ultimately though, i see myself doing the research that supports the decisions of the designer and not working as the designer directly.

being back at school has helped me rediscover my passion for science, and more specifically, physics. last year i took a hydrodynamics class and remembered why i studied it in the first place. because i like math and mechanics, and it's with these tools that i want to answer questions about design, conservation and multispecies community resilience.

the connection may not be obvious at first, but now, somehow, my work unites these three passions of mine -- a combination of environmental fluid mechanics, wildlife zoology, and design. broadly, i'm exploring how to incorporate marshes and other coastal vegetation into the design of physically, ecologically, and socially resilient urban waterfronts. the marshes can physically attenuate wave energy, preventing erosion and wave-driven flooding. they also provide important habitat for local wildlife like birds, crabs, and larval fish. social resilience is perhaps a more diffuse subject, but by grounding these nature-based coastal management solutions in community stewardship, we can start to rebuild relationships with our non-human neighbors. how? not sure yet, but i have some ideas.

yesterday i was accepted into a masters program in the department of civil and environmental engineering to research some of these questions (specifically regarding wave-structure-vegetation interaction). i'm not leaving the architecture department, but instead continuing in both programs as a dual degree student.

i don't identify myself as an architect, but I do as a designer. and as a scientist and educator. these titles are arbitrary (every problem is interdisciplinary when you get down to it), but they help me connect the person i am now to the person i was then.

physics-major-in-a-us-naval-officer-program turned zookeeper turned architecture-student turned science-and-engineering-student-studying-the-codesign-of-climate-adaptation-with/by/for-coastal-ecologies? my transition happened in there somewhere lol i'm also 5 years on T this week.

things will keep changing naturally, but really enjoying the ride so far :)

[shibepetter]

i’m an architecture student!!

       we can have a drawing sesh sometimes i can show ya

                                                                            💖 💖 💖 💖 💖

[cuntrytaylor]

i'm rereading some of my college writing and this part kind of rocks

[dearearlyarchaeologists]

Can someone just make a grad program called

Archaeological Art from the 1-7th centuries CE in Jewish Contexts

And make my life a year longer

[pumpkinsouppe]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

[1o1percentmilk]

yr telling me theres a whole park with those beautiful sculptures

[theemperorsfeather]

I may be petty, or a hater, or perhaps a petty hater, but sometimes when I see renderings of in-progress projects at work I think to myself "wow, yet-another building with that feature, oh and that one, oh and the same set of exterior materials and notions about massing, how the fuck does anyone tell these two apart," and yeah I know, every firm/design team is going to have their own style they keep coming back to, and there are trends in architecture, so really why am I surprised, this isn't necessarily bad, but god damn there seems to be a lot of it recently, come on people how about just a tiny bit more originality and less of me getting confused about just which fucking project I'm looking at, or is this just the same project but from a different angle

[tomesandtravels]

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[tooradforhell]

Finally finished

[pranjalj23]

UCA Grad Show

[livinglight14]

Done!!! Master of Architecture.