As promised, photos of my models! Quick recap - the project fits within a site and is a subtractive exercise where I "stabbed" the site with rectangular prisms in the direction of the 4 view rooms - no viewing, ground viewing, horizon viewing, and sky viewing.

Architecture is pretty well known to be a universally time-consuming and difficult major - I remember when I was still looking at colleges, my friends and family and even college tour guides would ask me if I was sure I wanted to do Architecture because I would most definitely not have a life outside of it.

I think one of the most satisfying feelings I've ever had so far in my life is seeing something that I worked on come to life. And no, I don't mean come to life in a model - I mean legitimately, in real life, usable, workable structures.

So the first week of the new school year has passed, and while I do not have anywhere near the amount of work I will end up having when the semester really begins to pick up (thank you, studio) it seems like the rush and stress is already coming back.

For those who don't know, I lived in Shanghai from 7 - 13 years old, and when I was 13 I moved to the US to go to boarding school in rural Connecticut. Most of my formative childhood years and memories are based on China, but because I left at 13, I left with the naive associations a young girl tends to have, and my stubbornness to believe in those rose-colored memories kept me from seeing what was really in front of me.

I've mentioned before that I have a ridiculous amount of yarn collected and need to use up, so here's another crochet project that I just recently finished for my apartment!

My friends and I had a pretty great weekend last week, filled with laughter and chopping and slicing vegetables (and in Veronica's case, herself).