how fast time flies! it is horrifying to think that i am only away from home for a mere five more weeks. if it only wasn't for these horrible assignments. bullshat my way through urban design theory today and hopefully passed. date number three with hallward library tomorrow - all day - which will be fun and with luck, productive, unlike tonight.
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Showing posts with label architorture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architorture. Show all posts
20100111
20100107
ventilation
i find it hard to analyse ventilation when i didn't design any windows in my building.
whoops.
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whoops.
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20091125
torture
sunday : 5pm - 2am mushrooms
monday : 5am wake up, 9.40am flight, 11pm sleep
tuesday : 9.30am wake up call, 10am jog, 10.30am tute, 1pm lunch, 2pm - 1am interim crit prep
what does the rest of the week bring?
wednesday : 24 hours of architecture?
thursday : interim crit, emma's birthday?
friday : dinner?
saturday : 4am wake up, 6am flight to rome?
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monday : 5am wake up, 9.40am flight, 11pm sleep
tuesday : 9.30am wake up call, 10am jog, 10.30am tute, 1pm lunch, 2pm - 1am interim crit prep
what does the rest of the week bring?
wednesday : 24 hours of architecture?
thursday : interim crit, emma's birthday?
friday : dinner?
saturday : 4am wake up, 6am flight to rome?
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20091119
20091119
i couldn't think of a title for this one, so this one's simply the date.
things have been relatively fun. last night was the nusex booze cruise which was fantastic. free booze all night with an after party at bodega (my new favourite hangout). malibu & pineapples all night, with trashy brit-pop as well as a few sneaky old school 90's classics...hit me baby one more time.
monday was my first notts archi-hangout. gatecrasher's traffic light party. wheyyyyy. fun all round, but drinks were ludacris. £5.50 for a jagerbomb? i don't think so. i'm sticking to gatecrasher on wednesdays and fridays strictly.
architorture hasn't been too bad. i whipped up a quick 1:50 sketch model in the two hours before my tute and it was relatively successful! interim crit on thursday - i will have to put my head down and butt up after this weekend.
in my intoxicated state, i finally applied for chipperfield's berlin internship last night. fingers crossed. i don't even know if i want it or not, because it will fuck up my life about 100 times more than exchange has...and i kinnnnd of don't speak german. i'm kind of keen to settle down and stay in one place for a while after this. perhaps a few weekend trips around australia, but nothing too drastic. i'm the most elderly eighteen year old ever.
speaking of travel, amsterdam tomorrow.
it shall be a blast.
i intend to have enough crazy stories to fill this blog for years by monday afternoon.
big love.
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20091117
20091113
madrid 2010
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=453&storycode=3153008&channel=783&c=2
super lazy to repost.
have a look.
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20091111
a day off in architecture? never heard of.
it's my day off. my lecture was kindly cancelled last night. fantastic. means i have more time to study (i.e. facebook) & clean (i.e. facebook). last night was 'miss nottingham', which meant lots of drunk/half naked girls doing ludicrous things in the name of a figurehead position. it was entertaining, to say the least, and UQ would never allow such a thing, but pretty much pointless.
the uni work is piling up. i don't want to be stuck in january with so much work, so i am aiming to start now, but failing. it's so incredibly difficult to get into the right frame of mind.
last night, ben, simon & i edited wikipedia:
good times. they're no longer there (thankyou, wikipedia censoring) but it's funny nonetheless.
today, i am to wrap sam's present. do laundry. have a shower. buy urban design text book. have a healthy lunch. clean room.
wish me luck.
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today, i am to wrap sam's present. do laundry. have a shower. buy urban design text book. have a healthy lunch. clean room.
wish me luck.
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20091104
chat
"i never knew you found paninis to be homoerotic"
- clan three chat, overheard at hallward library
- clan three chat, overheard at hallward library
20091103
20091029
group work
it's not that i hate you. or that i'm racist. or that i pick fights. i was tired and we were stressed.
a day in the life of an architecture student.
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a day in the life of an architecture student.
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20091026
get better soon, sina!
a diagnosis of meningitis.
group work, A2 panel #4802402093.
3 x visit to cripps health centre.
video diary of life as a second year architecture student.
arguing about primitive communities - should we let them go to sainsbury's and buy their food? tv or no tv? one computer - what if they all want to facebook at the same time?
get better soon, sina!
things are a mess when you are ill!
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group work, A2 panel #4802402093.
3 x visit to cripps health centre.
video diary of life as a second year architecture student.
arguing about primitive communities - should we let them go to sainsbury's and buy their food? tv or no tv? one computer - what if they all want to facebook at the same time?
get better soon, sina!
things are a mess when you are ill!
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20091022
thursday
it's thursday.
in first year, that meant eight hour drawing torture. in second year, that meant design lecture and studio. in nottingham, it means four hours of mind-numbing archi confusion...survived only by designing clan logos, scribbling people figures all over sketch books and coming up with ridiculous nicknames.
it was fascinating, though, what we came up with. theories of space vs. place. is there a difference? is there a boundary? what is the relationship?
thursday, also meant the booking of various flights for the christmas time. i am berlin, krakow, barcelona, vienna, munich and edinburgh bound. how exciting.
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in first year, that meant eight hour drawing torture. in second year, that meant design lecture and studio. in nottingham, it means four hours of mind-numbing archi confusion...survived only by designing clan logos, scribbling people figures all over sketch books and coming up with ridiculous nicknames.
it was fascinating, though, what we came up with. theories of space vs. place. is there a difference? is there a boundary? what is the relationship?
thursday, also meant the booking of various flights for the christmas time. i am berlin, krakow, barcelona, vienna, munich and edinburgh bound. how exciting.
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20091019
bullshit in architecture
"The perpetual enlargement of the human estate cannot be sustained because it will eventually overwhelm the capacity and fecundity of natural systems and cycles. The unrestrained development of any and all technology canot be sustianed without courting risks and adverse consequences...a world of ever increasing economic, financial and technological complexity cannot be sustained because sooner or later, it will overwhelm our capacity to manage. A world divided by narrow, exclusive and intense allegiances to ideology or ethnicity cannot be sustained because its people will have too little humour, compassion, forgiveness and wisdom to save themselves" (David Orr, Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics and the Environment in an Age of Terror)
the other side of the world
it has been quite a while since i have blogged, i know.
how slack of me.
but what a perfect excuse - i am now in the uk! how exciting. the last few weeks have been a complete emotional rollercoaster (to be completely cliched). i went to so many international student talks about culture shock and how to deal, blah blah blah. but honestly, nothing can prepare you for being on the other side of the world, completely by yourself (fortunately in the same language as yours) and having to make friends - quicksmart.
fortunately, i have been lucky. i've been popped into the smallest, arguably most beautiful hall on campus with my now-best friends literally two or three doors away - florence boot hall. it's a half hour walk to lectures (i choose to take that as a positive - massive campus university which allows me to exercise whilst walking to my lectures?) but definitely the nicest part of university park. the people are great. of course, they are all eighteen year old high school graduates who constantly want to get drunk, but they are great fun. the food, however, not so great. i have never missed asian food so much! (and eaten so much sweet corn for that matter...the english are nuts about sweet corn).
freshers week a few weeks ago, was intense. every night was some kind of stupid themed party, starting at the ripe hour of seven pm, meaning i was wasted, and in bed by about one. unfortunately, that has meant that even now (third week), i have been unable to stay up past twelve when out. highly embarrassing story #1 - i may or may not have fallen asleep at ocean (student club) on friday night...
architecture is fun, but not quite what i am used to. firstly, there are 180 of us in second year, almost double what i am used to back home. we have been separated into 'units', and i have been lucky enough to be selected into unit one - solar decathlon! we are the only UK entrant in the european solar decathlon in madrid in june 2010. how exciting! it gives me a fantastic excuse to come back in june, providing it doesn't clash with uni work back home.
travelling plans are going better than i could ever imagine. i was in london last weekend with one of my oldest friends, charlie. it was a truly amazing weekend. we managed to fit in all the main sights on london into four very short days (thankyou for the great weather, london!) and went out as well. the londoners certainly know how to have a good night out. i don't remember much, i am sad to say, but i believe we were out in mayfair. not this weekend coming, but the weekend after, i am off to dublin, to visit daen, a fellow UQ architecture slave. it's also halloween at this time - so we might head up to derry (northern ireland) to have a look around. then a few weeks after dublin, is rome with gordon, yet another UQ student over here on exchange. it should be good to have a look at the architecture, now that i know what i am actually speaking about. and then - a massive winter/christmas trip with grace, sina, ben, simon and matt: berlin, krakow, barcelona (with sam), vienna for christmas, amsterdam, edinburgh for new years, glasgow and perhaps back to dublin for a little before uni starts again in mid january.
it's past midnight here, so i will call it a night.
more stories from notts to come!
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how slack of me.
but what a perfect excuse - i am now in the uk! how exciting. the last few weeks have been a complete emotional rollercoaster (to be completely cliched). i went to so many international student talks about culture shock and how to deal, blah blah blah. but honestly, nothing can prepare you for being on the other side of the world, completely by yourself (fortunately in the same language as yours) and having to make friends - quicksmart.
fortunately, i have been lucky. i've been popped into the smallest, arguably most beautiful hall on campus with my now-best friends literally two or three doors away - florence boot hall. it's a half hour walk to lectures (i choose to take that as a positive - massive campus university which allows me to exercise whilst walking to my lectures?) but definitely the nicest part of university park. the people are great. of course, they are all eighteen year old high school graduates who constantly want to get drunk, but they are great fun. the food, however, not so great. i have never missed asian food so much! (and eaten so much sweet corn for that matter...the english are nuts about sweet corn).
freshers week a few weeks ago, was intense. every night was some kind of stupid themed party, starting at the ripe hour of seven pm, meaning i was wasted, and in bed by about one. unfortunately, that has meant that even now (third week), i have been unable to stay up past twelve when out. highly embarrassing story #1 - i may or may not have fallen asleep at ocean (student club) on friday night...
architecture is fun, but not quite what i am used to. firstly, there are 180 of us in second year, almost double what i am used to back home. we have been separated into 'units', and i have been lucky enough to be selected into unit one - solar decathlon! we are the only UK entrant in the european solar decathlon in madrid in june 2010. how exciting! it gives me a fantastic excuse to come back in june, providing it doesn't clash with uni work back home.
travelling plans are going better than i could ever imagine. i was in london last weekend with one of my oldest friends, charlie. it was a truly amazing weekend. we managed to fit in all the main sights on london into four very short days (thankyou for the great weather, london!) and went out as well. the londoners certainly know how to have a good night out. i don't remember much, i am sad to say, but i believe we were out in mayfair. not this weekend coming, but the weekend after, i am off to dublin, to visit daen, a fellow UQ architecture slave. it's also halloween at this time - so we might head up to derry (northern ireland) to have a look around. then a few weeks after dublin, is rome with gordon, yet another UQ student over here on exchange. it should be good to have a look at the architecture, now that i know what i am actually speaking about. and then - a massive winter/christmas trip with grace, sina, ben, simon and matt: berlin, krakow, barcelona (with sam), vienna for christmas, amsterdam, edinburgh for new years, glasgow and perhaps back to dublin for a little before uni starts again in mid january.
it's past midnight here, so i will call it a night.
more stories from notts to come!
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20090617
as of late
as of late, i have been neck deep into design. folio handed in yesterday! went to uni to print everything on monday afternoon, and wow - the sheer amount of work everyone has put in this semester is incredible - so went home at 11.30pm and decided that i would do an axonometric. 5 surprisingly-not-so-painful hours later, i had a semi-passable axo. i had been quite apathetic about this folio. just not really feeling the stress or need to do quite so well - and i think this is positively affecting my health. sleeping well, eating (kind of) well, taking time out and relaxing.
this time around, things are different, believe it or not. it's fun. it's simple. and i feel much closer than before. i don't know if i am being sucked in to the same stupid trap, but i feel as though that life is good and i wouldn't change a thing at the moment. and i got a bit sad about leaving this morning - leaving what i've got here and being afraid of not finding it ever again (which in itself, is unlikely) ♥
my delicious emilio pucci gumboots came from melbourne last night! they fit perfectly, like a glove, and i just know that i will be wearing them twentyfourseven in the uk when the ground is too wet. their crazy zaha hadid-like designs will bring a splash of colour and life into what is usually a depressing, plain and function-orientated type of shoe.
20090516
going under
i'm going under! with the sheer volume of uni work as well as organisation of my trip o/s, i am finding it hard to breathe. the creative juices just aren't flowing and all i am drawing are sub-standard buildings which don't address function, aesthetics or respond to the environment well.
but at the same time, i have had this thought that i'm going to try and make a conscious effort to balance my life a bit more - see more people, do more things.
this time...will (fingers crossed) be different. i've got one foot out the door, and i'm not afraid to say goodbye. X
20090506
parallax
key notes from a friend of mine, who was fortunate enough to attend the parallax conference down in melbourne:
1. At the core of Architecture is understanding and rethinking our world (Aaron Betsky)
2. Be an emergentist, not an architect (Pia Ednie-Brown & Veronika Valk)
3. Psychoanalysis: What we most desire is what we least want to be our reality (Slavoj Zizek)
4. Blogs are an immediate self-published energy that can challenge authority by giving value through exposure to the expreience and opinion of any person whom experiences architecture (Geoff Manaugh)
5. Architecture is not building (Howard Tanner)
6. The more you try to connect - the more you separate (Aaron Betsky)
7. Have some of the most famous buildings of all time been famous because the architecture is easily portrayed in a flat picture image? Does the photegeniacy of spaces dictate their circulation, publicity and fame prospects? What other avenues are there to explore and spread architecture?
8. The Boarder will become how architecture reflects politics. Previously this has been done through the section. (Alejandro Zaera-Polo)
9. Do not be afraid to take your proposals to the world... eg. Veronika Valk approaching her city council with proposals to revitalise her city in Estonia.
10. Who takes ownership over the building... the architect or the carpenter? (Bijoy Jain)
1. At the core of Architecture is understanding and rethinking our world (Aaron Betsky)
2. Be an emergentist, not an architect (Pia Ednie-Brown & Veronika Valk)
3. Psychoanalysis: What we most desire is what we least want to be our reality (Slavoj Zizek)
4. Blogs are an immediate self-published energy that can challenge authority by giving value through exposure to the expreience and opinion of any person whom experiences architecture (Geoff Manaugh)
5. Architecture is not building (Howard Tanner)
6. The more you try to connect - the more you separate (Aaron Betsky)
7. Have some of the most famous buildings of all time been famous because the architecture is easily portrayed in a flat picture image? Does the photegeniacy of spaces dictate their circulation, publicity and fame prospects? What other avenues are there to explore and spread architecture?
8. The Boarder will become how architecture reflects politics. Previously this has been done through the section. (Alejandro Zaera-Polo)
9. Do not be afraid to take your proposals to the world... eg. Veronika Valk approaching her city council with proposals to revitalise her city in Estonia.
10. Who takes ownership over the building... the architect or the carpenter? (Bijoy Jain)
20090425
donkey
my idea of a perfect saturday night definitely does not include:
a) writing an architectural history essay
b) nursing a 4 day headache + sinus which just won't go away
c) attempting an environmental management assignment
however, does include:
a) eating large bacon bones sized for dinosaurs in pea soup
b) afternoon cat naps to be interrupted by phone calls
c) css's 'donkey' on repeat
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a) writing an architectural history essay
b) nursing a 4 day headache + sinus which just won't go away
c) attempting an environmental management assignment
however, does include:
a) eating large bacon bones sized for dinosaurs in pea soup
b) afternoon cat naps to be interrupted by phone calls
c) css's 'donkey' on repeat
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20090423
archi-torture
architecture degree
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time consuming
soul destroying
social life killing
but completely and utterly worth it.
office politics are hard to deal with. who is in charge; who has the power; who makes the decisions? as a result, i have swapped out of my tutorial group for design - as my tutor also works with me, thus making our professional r'ship a bit complex.
this weekend should involve: essay writing on manners and personal privacy in the renaissance - 19th century + domestic architecture; reflective journals; environmental management tasks (many thanks to my environmental management student who has failed to turn up) and sleeping, but instead will probably involve: friday night fans at alhumbra; saturday night soco and kings with archikids + charlie's 19th birthday at cloudland; sunday night touch + susie's 19th birthday at the RE.
mega fail haha.
another interesting note, i have decided to plan to get fit - exercise every tuesday night, thursday morning and sunday night. it really does make a difference. i feel aliveee! X
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time consuming
soul destroying
social life killing
but completely and utterly worth it.
office politics are hard to deal with. who is in charge; who has the power; who makes the decisions? as a result, i have swapped out of my tutorial group for design - as my tutor also works with me, thus making our professional r'ship a bit complex.
this weekend should involve: essay writing on manners and personal privacy in the renaissance - 19th century + domestic architecture; reflective journals; environmental management tasks (many thanks to my environmental management student who has failed to turn up) and sleeping, but instead will probably involve: friday night fans at alhumbra; saturday night soco and kings with archikids + charlie's 19th birthday at cloudland; sunday night touch + susie's 19th birthday at the RE.
mega fail haha.
another interesting note, i have decided to plan to get fit - exercise every tuesday night, thursday morning and sunday night. it really does make a difference. i feel aliveee! X
20090415
you were the last high
tuesday night 150409
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helen todd + candice chan + three monkeys, west end + turkish bread + english breakfast + romantic walk #1 + pineapple gelati + southbank + perfect parallel park + photographic evidence of said park + romantic walk #2 + gerties, new farm + 2 for 1 drinks + running into friends (brisbane is small) + taco tuesday @ alibi room, west end + delicious long-haired nose-ring bearing boy + 'where can i find you, candice' + two buck bean taco + cloudland, valley
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funfunfun
wednesday night 160409
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maria quirk + daniel troy + eleanor todd + candice chan + wagamama's, wintergarden + dreaming of overseas + travel plans + cute cafe (name forgotten), city + delicious citrus pudding-thing + more english breakfast + comfy couches + chats
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funfunfun
...and it's only wednesday.
tomorrow i shall be a recluse, hiding in the queensland state library with books on 15th and 16th century architecture, manners and personal privacy. i shall attempt to ignore facebook/phone/society/distractions/attractive nerds in the library/ufo's - but admit this is unlikely.
back to work on friday ($payday$), much needed for the weekend coming.
strict budget is failing miserably, especially with my dear mastercard and recession sales (oh so tempting) - perhaps i will start playing lotto to try my chances.
zzz's needed for a big day of architectural theory tomorrow. X
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helen todd + candice chan + three monkeys, west end + turkish bread + english breakfast + romantic walk #1 + pineapple gelati + southbank + perfect parallel park + photographic evidence of said park + romantic walk #2 + gerties, new farm + 2 for 1 drinks + running into friends (brisbane is small) + taco tuesday @ alibi room, west end + delicious long-haired nose-ring bearing boy + 'where can i find you, candice' + two buck bean taco + cloudland, valley
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funfunfun
wednesday night 160409
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maria quirk + daniel troy + eleanor todd + candice chan + wagamama's, wintergarden + dreaming of overseas + travel plans + cute cafe (name forgotten), city + delicious citrus pudding-thing + more english breakfast + comfy couches + chats
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funfunfun
...and it's only wednesday.
tomorrow i shall be a recluse, hiding in the queensland state library with books on 15th and 16th century architecture, manners and personal privacy. i shall attempt to ignore facebook/phone/society/distractions/attractive nerds in the library/ufo's - but admit this is unlikely.
back to work on friday ($payday$), much needed for the weekend coming.
strict budget is failing miserably, especially with my dear mastercard and recession sales (oh so tempting) - perhaps i will start playing lotto to try my chances.
zzz's needed for a big day of architectural theory tomorrow. X
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