My long-time role-model Steven Holl came to critique me on my final review...that's one of the buildings he liked.
His advice, "A building should be more interesting on the inside than on the outside."
Other notes: a bunch of "A" projects and a bunch of "F" projects make a "C" student...I saw on of my projects being modeled in his office weeks later at his Christmas party (or that's just conspiracy theory). Time magazine named him Best American Architect in 2001.
The Monday before the final review my good friend George from Canadia had a spare ticket to see the Sam Roberts Band (also from Canadia) at the Bowery Ballroom.
It was a great concert; it was especially fun watching George get as excited as a 16-year-old girl at an Elvis concert.
Following the show we met up with long-time U of M friends at the "posh" Hudson Hotel designed by Philippe Starck.
Notice the fine serving platters, especially the one that looks like a cookie tray that was bent with a pliers to fit into the oven. The gravy-boat resembles [is] a beer pitcher from a UW-Madison bar. Also, how could something as disgusting as home-made gravy taste so good?
Everything was supersized tonight. We stopped at Jackson Hole on 85th and Columbus for their famous burgers before heading to Central Park West to see the Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons being inflated.
I've never seen such a burger - it's like Mom's meatloaf, whole, with a little bun hat.
The restaurant went through 360 pounds of beef that night.
Had we made it to the balloon inflation I'm sure we would have fit right in with the rest of the floats.
The Midterm review came three-weeks early last Monday.
It took somewhere near 2 hours to hang the 155 pages around 5am Sunday night. My thumbs were worn raw.
At the prodding of my instructor, Andrew Macnair, I am taking on a challenge/experiment that no one else in the school is dumb enough to try: the goal is to design 100 buildings on 100 sites in Manhattan by December 15th. In one month, I've only done 20 buildings...two more months, 80 mor buildings.
Last night I went out with my very good friends, Wayne Mortenson (left) and Larry Fabbroni (right). Larry was National President of the American Institute of Architecture Students, AIAS, when I was the Minnesota Chapter President. Wayne was the National President when I was the National Director for the Midwest.
Wayne is now married and working on three masters degrees at Washington University in St. Louis. Larry is living in Brooklyn and working at an architecture firm in Midtown called Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects.
I was born to a small farm in rural Minnesota - I will graduate in May 2007 from Columbia University with a Master of Architecture degree after 21 years of full-time study at 9 schools.
I'll try anything once - after that it had better be a source of adrenaline or serenity. I love anything that has to do with creation - a work of art - this is audible or visual, imaginary or real. I love to play music - I have played the saxophone since age 10, guitar since 12, and cello since 25 (I'm trying to learn). My dream is to play in a philharmonic. Photography has always been a passion; I bought my first camera at a garage sale for $5 and dreamed of working for the National Geographic. Beyond that I love to be outdoors: rockclimbing, running, biking, skating, you name it.
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