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This week will be full of fabulous adventures! The second years begin on Monday with a pin-up and discussion of their diagrams for the Jacksonville Center for the Arts. On Tuesday in Felt Constructions, students will be continuing the pattern making project organized by Jessica Lamb and Olivia Tsonas. At 2 pm, there is a lecture by Philippe Baumann in Hancock 100. The architecture thesis students are preparing for their thesis pin-up in Cowgill next week, and Sarah Crouch, a 4th year interior design student, is pinning up at 2 pm on Wednesday. On Wednesday at 7 pm, there will be a lecture by Juhani Pallasmaa from Helsinki. He is the author of "The Eyes of the Skin." On Thursday, the Felt Dyeing workshop, organized by Jeff Miller, Eirini Asprouda, and Adriana Serrano will take place in the FabLab between 12:30-1:45 pm. Come join us! Here are a couple links to cool things in Portland, where I just attended the 97th annual meeting of the ACSA: Rhiza A+D, a firm that does public art installations and architecture projects, Cacao, a crazy chocolate cafe, and Powell's bookstore, a dizzying labyrinth of books!

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This week is very compressed for me and us, as I will be attending the ACSA annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. On Monday, the second years discussed the Time Capsule exercise, and began working on the diagramming portion of the SD phase for the Jacksonville Center. The seniors had a small group pin-up to discuss progress on Michelle Pyne and Tara Bahavar's projects. The architecture thesis students, Jessica Fulk and Ryan Hausmann, also had a small group pin-up in preparation for the upcoming Cowgill lobby reviews the week of April 6th. On Tuesday, the second years will receive the section model portion of the SD tasks, and perhaps begin a dialogue between diagramming at the macro scale and zooming in to study spaces at the micro scale. Also on Tuesday, the felt class will be making felt from cleaned and carded wool in the FabLab, and there will be a lecture at 2 pm by Margarita McGrath in Hancock 100. On Friday, Martha Sullivan will be stopping by the second year studio to discuss progress on the diagrams, and will do some strategizing with the group regarding display for the final pin-up at the Center. From last week's Ferrari symposium, a link to Bruce Mau's latest endeavor, and looking forward to next weekend, a link to the Fashioning Felt show in NYC!                

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The first studio meeting after Spring Break is packed with excitement! On Monday, the second year studio will wrap up development of the powerpoint presentation that demonstrates their take on the POTENTIAL of the Jacksonville Center for the Arts re-design exercise. We will also be discussing the third round of sketching exercises and completing the binding of the case study research into a book that will be available as a reference to all students. At 3:30 or 4 pm, we will present the powerpoint to Martha Sullivan, President of the JCA, and get her feedback. If time permits, we will go over the Time Capsule exercise due next Monday. On Wednesday at 11:15 am in Cowgill 300, Professor Marc Baraness of the graduate faculty of the Ecole Nationale Superieur Architecture in Lyon, France will give a lecture entitled, On Urban Design: Between History, Industry, and Nature. At 3pm, fourth year students Amrita Raja and Jessica Lamb have their second pin-up of the semester. On Thursday and Friday, there will be lectures and other events in connection with the Ferrari Symposium. Follow the link for more information. Welcome back!

On topic for JCA research, an interesting excerpt from a publication listed on Bustler.

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Wow! Look at all that SNOW! Things on the radar this week:

Monday, 2nd years will be celebrating sketchbook session 2, doing a CAD tutorial in the materials library, and getting their research and documentation of existing conditions together.

In Tuesday's Felt Constructions class, there will be a presentation on sheep shearing/Robert Morris by Hunter Wilson, and on Kathryn Walter by Kacey Huntington. All are welcome.

On Wednesday at 3pm seniors Sarah Crouch and Tara Bahavar will be pinning up and discussing their projects. All are welcome. At 7pm in Hancock 100, there will be a lecture by Rosa Kliass. On Thursday in the same location, there will be a lecture at 2pm by Kevin Smith. Friday morning, a handful of the seniors will be speaking with a special visitor from Bloom Miami. Come join the conversation. 

Also, check out the Felt Constructions blog.