Day 278

Delicious food prepared by my CCMHT partner in crime (and recent RISD MIArch Graduate), Jing!



I don't even have a favorite because it was all AMAZING.

My contribution. Thank you Bisquick.



We sure have come a long way from snow-covered Cape Cod.

Day 276: Tampa

Yesterday we visited Tampa's Thai Temple for amazing eats and beautiful scenery!

















Visit them HERE!

Day 274

Only six weeks until Rome! In the past week I:

Finished up the MassArt Structures class by learning shear and moment diagrams.



Ran into a "city kitty" greeting Wentworth Institute of Technology Freshman lined up for orientation.







Had my first RISD Continuing Education class: Architectural Rendering in Watercolor.




And now I'm in boiling hot Tampa for a few days! Only six weeks to go until Rome. Which is apparently also boiling hot this time of year.

Day 270

Back out to Cape Cod for a CCMHT event: "In the Schools, on the Streets - Modernism Comes to America" Panel discussion with Gabrielle Esperdy and Jill Pearlman at Preservation Hall in downtown Wellfleet.

Day 273

Remember that desk Christina and I built last semester? We finally installed it at the finished Pine Street Inn / Creighton Street location! The desk is looking hot and the entire project came out beautifully.











In other news, my structures class at MassArt is moving right along



....with an occasional after-class trip to Cambridge Antiques near Lechmere.






And of course, lots of Italian practice.

Day 264

After a brief post-finals hiatus, I'm back in the blogging saddle. I've got eight weeks until Rome, so to start off the summer fun, I went to my first Providence Waterfire on Friday.















I also spent a few days "interning" and decided to discontinue that endeavor due to time crunch.



I'm in the midst of planning my Carlo Scarpa Northern Italy Tour de Architecture.



I think I've got the itinerary narrowed down to three excursions. I'm in the midst of compiling the written proposal for the independent study for scheme detailing. I don't think I can share pictures on this blog due to copyright - but I'll definitely have pictures from my travels!

Group 1: Venezia
Fusina Campground
Biennale Ticketbooth, Sculpture Garden and Venezuelan Pavilion
Accademia Gallery
Ca'Foscari University
Museo Correr

Group 2: Verona
Castelvecchio Museum
Villa Ottolenghi
Banca Popolare di Verona

Group 3: Farther Afield
Church della Nostra Signora del Cadore (base of the Dolomites, piggyback with trip to Lake Misurina)
Museo Canova
Brion Tomb (!)

Day 252

Axon from today's crit. Which went well. And officially closes the book on year one of grad school.



Bonus: I won a $100 gift certificate from the RISD store for filling out some survey a month ago. Materials for architectural watercolor class in June/July purchased.

And that is how we do that.

Yesterday was Day 250!

And I missed the quarter mark because I was working on my studio final. Here I am at the home stretch. Just need to make these five photos look a lot better than they do now....and I'll be done.

Day 248

We're down to the wire. All of my classes are wrapped up except for Studio.

To do list before 10am Tuesday morning, May 25:

Plans: 2
Sections: 2
Exploded Axonometric: 1
Experiential Vignettes: 4
100 Page Process Book: 1
Research and Precedent Poster: 1

I feel like I've come along way since first semester. Last December this list would have had me close to tears on the preceding Friday afternoon. This time around it feels manageable. The plans and sections are 75% done. The 3d model is in the finishing stages - which means the axon and vignettes can be easily pulled for beautifying.



And so I keep on truckin'