j-beams
j-beamsfall 2019, stevenson high schoolART 281/282 sculpturefall 2019, stevenson high schoolinstructor: katie hyken#craft

notes

words

notes and voice memos — process, not polish.

4aug

let me see the building

on curiosity, fences, labor, and the italian old men who had it right i was standing outside a construction site at like 4:30 in broad daylight with my fingers through the fence trying to record a video of the new performing arts timber…

4aug

today is the one year anniversary of me visiting the gsd at the open house. a year ago i…

today is the one year anniversary of me visiting the gsd at the open house. a year ago i was meeting some of my bestest friends. a year ago was when i fully knew how impactful this first year at the gsd has been for me (obviously it’s not…

7dec

core3

Okay, let's break this down in terms of what we've done for every semester, every part of this semester, to start to think about the concept in the site. I think my sort of gut instinct was that learning about Berkeley College of Music as…

4aug

last night was a movie, bro

I ended up working until 7 AM after let me tell you what the type of substances I was consuming so I started out with a beer and then I was yapping to someone for a very long time elias and then the cord above came Matthew adela, soph…

4aug

skateboard urbanism🛹🛹🛹❗️❗️❗️❗️

- [ ] skateboard urbanism - a thesis project looking at skate parks at a greater scale, utilizing, difficult or unnavigable land as an indigenous way of living in a city. what is an urban indigeneity- WE STUDY INDIGENEITY SO MYCH IN…

4aug

abandoned animal parks

i’m studying architecture built for the purpose of human commodification of animals. of one species over all others. viltrumite - “all is ours” - yes, wtf. old griffith park zoo franklin park bear dens catskill game farm benson’s wild…

4aug

the animal way

i do this often, this thing where when i catch myself doing something of note i think to myself, do animals do it too? i’m an animal too. we’re all animals. not just that we’re human beings so we’re animals haha, but like no we literally…

4aug

form ‘s importance at the gsd

autonomous object that can manifest itself- architecture, - carl sean come from scott cohen grace la - it’s his pedagogy form as a focus unbiased eric is elected for his practical knowledge you mean to talk abt shapes, but you know…

4aug

wild thesis

The extinction, the force extinction of primitive human beings, destroying all of the sort of early mammals in the mammoth. The dodo other sort of animals are hunted to extinction were that’s that’s a crazy domination of one entire race of…

4aug

you’re the one who should be in charge w coming up w thesis projects- being a thesis…

you’re the one who should be in charge w coming up w thesis projects- being a thesis advisor- (miya kutchins🫶) a project abt turning metal from coins into model making material as a **** you to the extractive useless process of minting…

4aug

EXCESS.

here’s a focused elaboration on excess grounded in everything you’ve been developing across your notes, projects, voice memos, and proposed events — drawing out the core themes, spatial questions, and formal implications of excess, and…

4aug

lászló toth

- [ ] no you’re quite well proportioned - [ ] it’s quite all right - [ ] well i’m also doing the construction for a bowling alley - [ ] i found our conversation persuasive and intellectually stimulating. bye - [ ] there are many…

4aug

This project explores the architectural potential of the circus as a spatial, social, and…

This project explores the architectural potential of the circus as a spatial, social, and speculative typology. The circus is neither purely building nor infrastructure — it is a temporary world, an ecosystem of support and spectacle,…

4aug

seabird, alessi brothers, drumming my own tune to modify the sample- BASCIALLY LEGAL…

seabird, alessi brothers, drumming my own tune to modify the sample- BASCIALLY LEGAL REMIXING - tried to find out how to do that, and then make a building/drawing abt it formally and then reflecting the remix as a drawing as well- in…

4aug

core 4 clifford wong

Households are composed of rooms accessed off a shared stair. Circulation becomes both vertical and transversal, creating movement through and around the building that is always communal, passing through thermal gradients in and around the…

4aug

Hi everyone, my name is Rahul, and my project. is exploring the intersection between an…

Hi everyone, my name is Rahul, and my project. is exploring the intersection between an efficient building and an excessive building. This sort of contradiction, juxtaposition, collision, or encounter between the grid, the highly regular…

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observations

rahul subramanian

Hello! I am a Master of Architecture I student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2028) and have completed my B.S.Arch from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2024).