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Ground Breaking?
There was quite an exciting event happening on S. Salina St. in Syracuse a couple weeks ago. It was nominally the groundbreaking of the South Side Food Co-op with all the fanfare and media attention a project of this significance … Continue reading
Who Is Your Audience?
I often interrupt my students while they are presenting their work to the class by asking them the question “who is your audience?” I do this primarily to throw them off their game and see how they handle distractions, but … Continue reading
The GSD at Harvard
I’m heading this weekend to an open house event at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University. I’m headed there as a newly accepted student to their M.Arch II program. This may bring to mind a couple of … Continue reading
Celebrate Milstein Hall
This weekend I participated in what is believed to be the largest gathering of alumni in the history of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning. We were all there to celebrate the completion of Milstein Hall, the new architecture … Continue reading
(Two?) New Speaking Engagements
A dear friend of mine, Anthony Lee, recently invited me to participate in a TED-style multi-speaker event that he is organizing in San Francisco this June, entitled “Ideas From the Heart.” I thought this would be an ideal opportunity to … Continue reading
NYC trip – 2.17.12
This past Friday the entire freshman class of the School of Architecture here at Syracuse embarked on a one-day trip to Manhattan and back. It has become something of a tradition to do the entire trip there and back in … Continue reading
SOA Architecture News
There are a couple of new mentions of my work in the current edition of “Architecture News: The newsletter of the Syracuse School of Architecture.” One is for my entry in “Furnished” and another for the upcoming South Side Food … Continue reading
Dragon Day
As I prepare for the new semester to begin I am reminded of the spring semester of my first year at Cornell, the highlight of which was Dragon Day. I’ll always remember that experience as solidifying my intentions of being … Continue reading
Semester Wrap-up
The Fall semester is wrapping up here at Syracuse, though it doesn’t really feel like it, since we haven’t had any notable snowfall. It’s been an excellent semester all together, culminating with a great showing on Saturday by my second … Continue reading
- Tagged Syracuse University, teaching
Furnished
For the second year in a row, my work has been included in a group showing of the architecture faculty here at the SOA at Syracuse University. Though my contribution was not as extensive as last year’s “Motive Force” (a … Continue reading
- Tagged furniture design, SOA, Syracuse, teaching
