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Posted on September 15, 2009

I like to have small projects going all the time. This one was started as a demolition job. My sister and her husband were getting new closets installed. I was enlisted to tear out all the old shelving. A few wide pine boards remained.

I cut the boards to two lenths, mitred the corners and made an L-shaped building block. These were left free of each other to allow for different configurations when setting them up; depending on the space desired to fill. I sanded them down fairly well, and then we painted them and put a few coats on polyurethane on them to give the surface a little protection.

It turned out to be a fun project and gave us some much needed shelf space and a nice little end table for the couch.

a tough field.

Posted on December 13, 2008

The design field is a tough one right now. It’s been a few months since I began searching, and have seen very few job postings for junior/intern/beginer architects.

It leaves you in a tough position. I want to be somewhat choosy as to where I apply, so as to not just accept or work where the job is, but to work somewhere that I’m interested in [although, my once standing requirement that the office has to work on the Mac platform, I've eased up on some].

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Do design fields translate within one another? I’ve been doing some graphics work and web design. Should these fields not be considered when looking at my portfolio work as an architect? Seems like they should.

Abandonment

Posted on June 5, 2008

I have neglected the latest in design happenings lately. It just sort of happened. Maybe there simply isn’t much going on in the design world right now. Of course, I know that is not true. Only I have failed to take notice.

Lately my thoughts on design have simply been through the lens. Observing mainly. I’ve been watching people and listening to them. Seeing how they interact with their surroundings. Quite effortlessly here in this foreign land. They are part of their surroundings here.

Now i believe this only holds true when I’m traveling in the countryside. For even here, as in my homeland, there is a constant struggle for man when he is existing in his own manmade surroundings. Within the created landscape, there is this definite conflict. This tension for him to be in the surroundings that he created, yet not becoming part of them. He is always living in them at a distance.

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