Design 2 + First Day 4th Semester

I could NOT sleep last night. So 5 AM rolled around as I did, and I rushed to make the 6:15 bus.

Had a nice breakfast in school. Waited for everyone to show up, and then later had the big fantasy draft from the professors. Originally I was supposed to be in Giovanni Santamaria's section. But due to my recent failure of Design 1 with a C+ grade... They moved me to Section 4 with Martin Krovac. Really nice architect from Prague, whom works at Steven Holl Architects. His wife is an architect as well, and is rumored to make some appearances over the semester to help our class.

The professor introduced himself, and then asked each of us to do the same and to tell everyone something about themselves. The first two students began, and each mentioned their favorite architect or their origin country. This led to being assigned a research project for each.
To avoid this, I decided to mention "I like classical music."
Martin then asked, "do you know any architects that worked with musicians?"
I asked if Frank Ghery working with the symphony counted. He wasn't too thrilled about the idea so he suggested Le Corbusier working with Iannis Xenakis. And to pick three of his projects.

Interesting subject matter. Anyway, he also assigned that everyone should design their dream home for this friday (Plans/Sections and 1 perspective/collage). I started some sketches for it.

Speaking of sketches, we had a site visit today in Soho. We visited the Roosevelt Building by Richard Morris Hunt (Sound familiar? He was the memorial project from Design 1). I took some panographs of the facade, and did a quick sketch of it and later added gray scale shading to it.

After the site visit, a friend and I went to the HighLine to check out the new addition. We walked many many many miles, but we saw everything. And simply said, the HighLine is more beautiful than when we first went to visit it 18 months ago.

6PM- We had structural Steel Design with Mathew Ford. It was fun. We reviewed statics, and I made a few jokes while my body was rejecting caffeine and my legs were in pain from all the walking.

Ok, thanks for checking in, dear reader ;)
~ArchiTalmud