Women in Architecture There’s a scene in Season 3 of the West Wing – Aaron Sorkin’s TV drama of a now-totally-unfamiliar normal US White House that began airing in 1999 – where Josh Lyman, the President’s Deputy Communications Director visits the Women’s Leadership Coalition. As he’s waiting in the lobby (and it shouldn’t go unnoticed […]
My Journey – Davis 011 Niles Union: HUD IAH Phase II This past week, my team from the University of Texas at Austin and I travelled to Washington, DC, to present our refined scheme as one of four national finalists in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Innovation in Affordable Housing competition we […]
My Journey – Davis 010 Chapter 1 from “Going Tiny: Failure + Opportunity in the Future of Affordable Housing” CritDay note: The following is the first chapter of my recently released book, Going Tiny, on my experience building and living in a tiny house – which I’ve talked about a couple times before – affordable […]
My Journey – Davis 009 Architecture as an Organism: The Austin Energy Green Building Program This week, I wanted to feature a project I worked on about a year ago now in the spring of my first year of graduate architecture school here at UTSOA: the Austin Energy Green Building Program headquarters here in Austin, […]
My Journey – Davis 008 Shortlisted! 2018 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing In February, I led the design of a proposal for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2018 Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition in conjunction with John Halverson, master’s of urban planning and urban design candidate, and Brendan Scher, an MBA candidate […]
My Journey – Davis 007 On Hybridity This past fall at UTSOA, I took a seminar course titled “Hybridity in Landscape and Architecture,” taught by art and architectural historian Mirka Benes. As some of the projects I’ve shared in the past – like my parking garage housing retrofit project – have shown, there’s something about […]
My Journey – Nina 003 Architecture Hand In Hand With Civil Engineering The cover image of this article is a photograph taken during the construction of the George Pompidou Centre in Paris. It depicts Peter Rice, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers sitting on top of a gerberette (one of the prefabricated structural elements of the […]
My Journey – Davis 006 The Big Game: Best Football Stadiums around the World This coming Sunday marks the biggest American football game of the season between the Philadelphia Eagles and the – ugh – New England Patriots (full disclosure, I’m an Atlanta Falcons fan still reeling after last year’s devastating loss to the Pats). […]
My Journey – Davis 005 Conversation with Ben Uyeda from Homemade Modern To this point in my young journey pursuing architecture, by far my most interesting accomplishment has been designing and building my tiny house, Kinetohaus. I introduced this series with an explanation of this project, which I still live in today, but I neglected […]
My Journey – Nina 002 There is No Substitute for Hard Work -Thomas A Edison We are all well familiar with the infamous graphs illustrating the various stages in an architecture project. Typically, they look something like this: As arguably accurate as those graphs are in representing the emotional state of an architecture student, I […]
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