College Night…Resumes…What to expect… “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” –Nora Roberts   Week 6 was held at Gilbane and we learned a lot about College and what the different majors entail […]

Everybody get your ‘Helmuts’… um Hardhats “Nature is not seen as an indifferent, inscrutable force…but rather a collection of material things whose reasons and relations architecture has the task of revealing… the origin of architecture is nature worked as a product of thought…Man put stone on the ground in order to recognize place in the

Owners Rep… WE…working together to solve the problem…     “It is extremely important for a satisfactory result of any design to spend time on the search of the accurate and essential meanings, investigate their complexities, learn about their ambiguities, understand the context of use to better define the parameters within which we will have

Can-struction Change Order… “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” – Aristotle Week 3 was at Clune. We started with a presentation about project management and construction. We played

Put your design cap on… Architecture is not simply a job. It is a lifestyle. It is a way of looking at the world. It is a constant exploration where one looks for and finds inspiration in the world around them, and then applies that inspiration to create something. And that thing we create is

We Build it with Pasta and Dots… Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. -Steve Jobs Week 1 was held at Sargent + Lundy and we learned a lot about Structural Engineering…Forces in Compression, Tension, Bending, Shear, Torsion…Live Loads and Dead Loads…Structural Elements such as Beams,

The results are in for the 8th Annual CIRT-ACE National Design Competition!  And guess what Team 1 – WE’RE 1ST RUNNER UP IN THE “LIBRARY RELEVANCE CHALLENGE”! Congratulations Team 1!!! If I wasn’t already being emotional and sappy about how well your presentation at the UIC Forum went, well then this just put me over

Team 1 + Week 19 Guys! We’re done!  Call me a soccer mom, but I’m seriously so proud of the presentation that you put together – it was amazing – and you all had great public speaking skills.  Your graphics looked great and your calculations and diagrams all made sense – we covered everything we

Team 1 + Week 18 All we have left is our final presentation and I think I’m getting teary!  Maybe you guys are excited to get back to having a free Thursday night to stay out late, eat Taco Bell, and not worry about those mentors continually asking you where you think you want to

We’ve got one more week people!  And this week got carried away by the wind.  No elaborate, cat infused blog post.  It’s a work week – keep working on improving the drawings you’ve been slaving away on.  Next meeting we’ll be continuing to put the final presentation together and begin working on our verbal presentations