As soon as I wrangle that expensive piece of paper from B. Glassy’s finger’s I’m getting into my truck and burning rubber, hell bent for adventure. Yeehaw. Fast forward five years. I’m bald, wearing glasses, and hunched over a drafting table, my hands, covered in graphite, tremble from the five cups of coffee I’ve consumed […]

Dear Readers, It is unto you that I will divulge the highly anticipated results of my Honors Committee reading of my first draft. Here’s a quick summary of things I need to work on: – Explicate Heidegger’s notion of dwelling more thoroughly (and make clear that I’m not advocating his philosophy in any fascist sort […]

I’ve learned a lot about writing since I began work on my thesis way back in August. Long before I settled on Architecture in the Anthropocene I had ideas about fun thesis topics floating throughout my head. Spatializing Social Networks, Adventure Sports and Deep Ecological Ethics, Tiny Homes, etc… In a way, I was waiting for a topic to […]

Last week was a big week. My academic load hit an apogee of sorts (a couple midterms to take and one to study for), culminating with a Friday submission deadline for the first draft of my thesis. That’s right. MY ENTIRE THESIS. Well, the first draft. But there it was, a fully fledged first draft. […]

This week has been spent trying knots in my thesis. I mean that in several ways. First of all, assembling the framework for my analysis of the two living buildings in my case study requires me to tie together a diverse set of ideas from Latour’s compositionist epistemology and his notion of the Earthbound to […]