City Views

  When you’re phone gets full and you have to clear up space you find little gems. These photos are just a few taken on my walks to and from studio looking towards downtown Philadelphia. Each of these views came with very different weather patterns. Some look deceptively cold while others warm but in reality the look of the sky has almost nothing to…

Amish Country

Discover Lancaster: http://www.discoverlancaster.com/activities/amish-activities.asp Amish country is beautiful, and probably a lot more fun on any day other than Sunday. I mistakenly decided to go out with a friend to tour Amish country, hoping to shop a little and see the farms, on a Sunday. Now several people had warned me that Sunday’s are probably not the best day, since it is the Amish’s day…

Student Health Services

Student Health Services Home: https://www.vpul.upenn.edu/shs/ If you’ve missed a few annual check ups or are looking for a doctor to take care of an uncertain illness (strep throat or pink eye or what-have-you) but didn’t really look up any permanent doctors before moving to Philly it’s okay! Student Health Services is the university’s doctors office. It’s really easy to set up appointments online or…

Pavilion Mirage

Another project has come to a close. The review went very well with lots of positive feedback and potential ideas to carry forward from this project into the next project. Before I get too far though allow me to introduce the project, it’s parameters, and then the process followed to arrive at this final pavilion. The pavilion project is a team project carried out…

Portfolio Reviews

  Though I did not participate in this event as it was targeted to graduating students, I found this really reassuring. The school is there to the very end to ensure your success. So long as you are putting forth the effort the school will be there to aid you in any way possible. Portfolio reviews are just one of the many ways in…

Treasures on Trial!

Treasures on Trial: http://www.winterthur.org/treasuresontrial My fall break weekend did not leave behind the influences of illusion studied in the pavilion project. On my many runs to Home Depot, Lowes, and JoAnns for materials I heard a commercial for an exhibit at the Winterthur Gallery which peaked my interest. The exhibit titled “Treasures on Trial” exhibited a wide range of fakes and forgeries across all…

Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibit

MOMA Exhibit: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1660?locale=en It’s not everyday that I get to go to visit the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. This Saturday was a wonderful excursion to just that place at the suggestion of the history/theory professor Joan Ockman. The exhibit was an impressive array of original drawings, models, and products all produced during Frank Lloyd Wrights lifetime by him. The exhibit was divided…

Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Central: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane-central National Hurricane Center: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ This past weekend has been a tad stressful for many reasons, two being a final project in studio and, more importantly, Hurricane Irma. A large majority of my family and friends reside in Florida so this storm would have had it’s impact on me no matter where it landed on the peninsula. Thankfully with the use of…

First Review: Container Project

One down, two to go! This past Monday M.Arch 501 had our first pin up. We were very happy to be joined by two people from the Penn Museum who had worked with us to produce photogrammetry scans of artifacts from which all our projects were derived. The review went smoothly and it was a delight to really enjoy everyone’s projects. Below are just…

A Landscape Tour: Chanticleer Garden

Chanticleer Gardens: http://www.chanticleergarden.org/ What better way to spend a saturday than visiting a local garden? None. This trip was organized by the Landscape Architecture Department and allowed 30 students the opportunity to engage in a private tour of the gardens led by two of the gardens staff and OLIN partner\Penn alumnus Dennis McGlade. Chanticleer is a pleasure garden. It’s sole purpose is to be…