I'm working on my portfolio for Mel Ferris Scholarship. I'm trying to make one with only architecture stuff, but I can't let go of these two drawings from Berkeley Summer Session 2003.
Sky and Dylan were listening to his shows quite often back in garage days. It took me while to start liking them, but now I'm so happy that I comprehend English to appreciate his shows.
"A Special Family" is one of my favorites. With slow music against intense pacing, he talks about a life of a girl who does not spend happy childhood. When she grows up, she marries a man who has lived in a shadow of his superstar brother. With the desperate hope of not making a same mistake that their parents made, the couple PLANs out their unborn children's happy life maticulously. But they make every single mistake they could ever make and the family falls apart in the end. The short plotline shows the sense of irony that audience clearly understands what those protagonists are doing wrong. Just fabulous!
Ryan's parents said that raising children is like playing pin-ball game where only controling method is to prevent balls from going one extreme or the other.
Stephanie Smith's Vertical Studio. Starting from case study of Archigram, I'm going to deal with very small dwelling units. I'm interested in how to COMPLETE the comfortable (active, inspirational...and so forth) environment for single family residences. It's interesting to play with minimum Utopian units and learn the concept behind them.
At this point (fourth year), nobody really think the challenge in class is "assignment". Instructors are flexible to accommodate with each student's interest. So, take it easy...and have fun!
Here is the yurt she is getting ready to put on a market.
I'm messing around with RhinoVB scripting. I don't know how far I can go, but thinking that I had never even typed a paper until a couple of years ago, it's fun to think that I advanced :) It's not a good idea to familiarize myself to the operation of a certain software, since technology advances so quick. Rather I should be comfortable with learning softwares. There never is a case I have to start from scratch. What I learned in Photoshop helped me to pick up Illustrator. And Illustrator and AutoCAD are helping me using VectorWorks at office. One thing is that to use multiple softwares at a same time confuses me with navigation.
