twenty-five to life

"If ornament was a modernist crime, than imagery is surely the crime of the contemporary. While society is preoccupied with the superficial beautification of the surface, the human experience has become enslaved by simulations."



Here lays is the most recent intro to the issue that is thesis. Don't ask too many questions though, it's a work in progress.

updated idea mappage

This idea map below reflects my most recent thoughts on thesis. I have been attempting to make sense of my anxiety towards 'the digital age' and my affinity for poetic architecture. 


While I acknowledge the future of architecture as a digital one, I despise the algorithmic, mathematical generative forms popular in todays culture. I am in need of solitude with which I hope to find the medium between the efficiency of the digital and the beauty of the poetic.

an abstraction of visuals

The ideas encapsulated in this visual abstract represent the tension that I feel between a world becoming increasingly digitized and the implied eradication of human emotion which the former represents...


The visual is divided in half, composed of analog images to the left and computer-generated architecture to the right. Regardless of the methods, the human is always the central element.  

cranial thoughts

A week later, and I am back in the same place as the last post. Sitting at home in Acushnet, MA analyzing my thesis ideas. I have picked up three new books and have high hopes that they will lead me in a proper direction. They are "The Anaesthetics of Architecture", "The Laws of Simplicity" and "Architecture's Desire". All pertain to the complexities of the digital age and how design should take a long, hard look at the process of simplification.


My wish for this "travel" week was to immerse myself in these literary pieces, but my schedule filled up faster than a petition to change WAr. While my traveling studio felt right at home in Boston, we were already walked to death by Monday afternoon. The daily trips involved riding up the Custom House Tower elevator, touring City Hall, exploring Gary Wolf Architects, viewing archives at Historic New England and conferencing with almost-professor Larry Chan at his office in Cambridge. In addition to the day-time Boston experience, the night-time was spent laser cutting a site model of City Hall Plaza, which proved much more of a challenge than initially expected.


All in all, as the week winds down into the long weekend, I am happy with my current mental health status is and am ready to finally get some reading done...

cranial thoughts

Today is a day for unwinding, yet my mind never stops...
Thesis owns me and has for a long four weeks. 


Is it enjoyable? Well, it always depends on the day but more recently it has been. The broader ideas have come into focus and I am excited to think that I might have something tangible, but there are always the feelings that I need to continue narrowing in on a portion that can generate architecture and be accomplished in the short time frame I have to work with. However, I am quick to quell any discomfort I may have because this is a moment in my life intended for cherishing, not worrying.