Introduction.

I have finally decided to get this started. For the first post to this blog I hope to explain two things: who and what

So for some background: I come from a rather large town in rural Pennsylvania but have spent the last couple years growing and learning in the city of Philadelphia. I am a recent graduate from Philadelphia University‘11 where I earned my degree in Architecture and am currently assistant visualizer at a landscape architecture firm in center city.

A lot of the things posted in this blog might come from around the Philadelphia area. I have been a resident here since 2006 and believe that there is a character here that I really enjoy and I hope I can persuade others to see it too.

I have been looking for the best way to document my growth as a designer and share my interest. I hope to keep this blog up to date by posting what projects I am working on or other things I might come across that I find interesting. As the title suggest you can expect all things related to art and architecture, built and unbuilt, as well as some experiments and works in progress.

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The work has begun on gathering topics for future posts, but I decided that I would begin early with some pieces from my undergrad portfolio to give a better understanding of my thoughts on design.

Recently, I received the great news that my 5th year thesis project was featured on Archinect.com as one of the top projects of 2011 on their website. In keeping this news fresh, I’ll be posting this project first and later decide where to go from there with the others. Considering these are past projects, I plan on posting some current thoughts about them, what I would have done differently, yada yada. Comments are welcome of course, I miss studio critiques..

Lastly I’ll include a piece I have been working on recently, I’ll explain the relevant details another time.