Architecture

My first two years at UWM I majored in Architecture. Freshman year I took Architecture 100 and 101, introductory courses that gave me a background in design principles and theory. Sophomore year I took Architecture 200 and 201, the first in a series of 3 years of design studios. I have provided a link and brief description of each individual project.

Architecture 200

Henry David Thoreau
The program for this exercise was to design a structure for Henry David Thoreau to watch the sun set. Students were asked to abstractly render a prism with a supporting space using a given amount of sticks and planes. I chose to use a bar parti, placing the main space in between the prism and the berm.
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Institute of Global Studies
The program for this exercise was to develop a site plan for the Institute of Global Studies. Students were instructed to include three buildings of varying sizes, a main space, a secondary space, and a tertiary space, as well as trellis work that connected these different elements. I chose to place the main space in the northeast corner of the site. I positioned the buildings on axis with other important main buildings in the surrounding area. To pull the design together, I placed a reflecting pool in the main space that lay on axis with the two most important buildings on the site.
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Facade Design
The goal of this assignment was to further develop the Institute of Global Studies site plan. Students were instructed to model in detail the facade of one of the site plan's main buildings. I chose to create a facade with a glass curtain wall that reveals the building's main space. The glass also serves to reflect the pond that lies directly to the east of the building, creating a serene environment conducive to studying.
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Architecture 201

Salk Institute
The program for this exercise was to develop an abstract representation in model form that shows how the typography, spatial figures (both inside and outside the building), paths, thresholds, and ordering elements of the Salk Institute interweave to form a single cohesive design. I chose to represent the typography with cardboard, the spatial figures with chip board, the paths with brown paper, and the thresholds with bristol board.
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Casa del Fascio
The program for this exercise was to develop an abstract representation of the four floor plans of the Casa del Fascio. Students were asked to use eight different layers of bristol board to construct a model that would demonstrate the hierarchy of spaces, geometry, circulation, and structure of the building. I chose to designate two layers to each floor plan. In the last layer I opted to include a sectional view on the diagonal to make it more distinct.
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In Class Design Charette
Students were divided into groups of varying size and given four hours to design a phone booth for the fourth floor of SARUP, the architecture building on UWM's campus. We opted to float the phone booth over the stairwell, keeping consistent with the materials already there.
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City of Milwaukee
The program for this exercise was to develop an abstract model of the City of Milwaukee. The elements students were instructed to focus on include linear networks, figural objects, fields, and fabrics. I chose to represent the lake, the major highways, typography, the street grid, and the park system.
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Quotes

"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
LeCorbusier

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"All architecture is shelter. All great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
Phillip Johnson

"Form ever follows function."
Louis Sullivan

"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."
Tadao Ando

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
Frank Gehry

"Architecture begins where engineering ends."
Walter Gropius

"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
Daniel Libeskind

"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
Michael Graves