Lubbock High School

Week Thirteen Journal:

Thanksgiving week! This week there was not many classes to attend because of the Holiday so I was blessed to return home for the second time this semester. I am originally from Lubbock, Texas, so it was quite a bit of a drive but I made it safely. Along the very long drive I passed many old and broken down homes from many old and forgotten little Texas towns, this was an amazing reminder that beauty can still be found in the broken down. It was also very interesting to compare the older homes with newer ones when it comes to things like ornamentation on the front faces of the buildings and the size and shapes of the drive ways. A lot of the homes in central Lubbock are built in the mid-century style, so that made running errands around town a lot more interesting. In addition to just enjoying the design from the car, I was able to watch a lot of Mad Men on Netflix. The show is famous for its mid-century modern design and it just a fun and entertaining way to soak up the design of the 1960's through the New York advertising men!

Hatching Practice

Week Twelve Journal:

Another busy week at Texas A&M! This week my main focus was working on the Townhouse project with my group and we learned that coordinating is a little bit more difficult when your buildings are actually touching! We focused a lot on having similar styles for the townhouses and it turned out better than expected, similar colors and furniture don't hurt. While each team member is trying to blend in together I still love seeing how each of my team members style compares to each other.

Fort Worth Water Gardens Marker

I had to draw the Water Gardens again because I loved it so much. This time I tried to draw it without pen and just marker. It gives off a different vibe, but I do not think I enjoy it as much.

Week Eleven Journal:

This week there was a lot of late nights on Revit working on my Villa Model, so I learned a lot about working in Revit and my skills are getting better. Working in a group of people trying to get similar buildings is interesting because we all have very different styles, but seeing all of our styles blend and creating a unique style is very interesting. In the History of Design class that I am taking we watched a documentary about Charles and Ray Eames. I really love their style of work and it was so cool to see glimpses into their lives through interviews of people they worked with. Their lives look so interesting and I love how they lived and worked in a heavily creative environment. Their house is Santa Monica is the house of my dreams!

Fort Worth Water Gardens

I liked the sketch and then I tried to add copics and I don't know if it made it better or if it made it worse. Need to redraw it because I did not make the first set of stairs long enough initially.

Week Ten Journal:

This week me and some other girls in Environmental Design missed class on Thursday and Friday to go to Dallas, Texas for the Texas Society of Architects convention. On Thursday I attended three lectures: Transportation in Dallas, What I Learned Designing my Own Home, and Restoring an Old Church. The one on designing your own house was my favorite because the all three architects went about it differently and admitted each of their own mistakes. After the lectures we walked around and visited the exhibits and talked to some people working in the industry. That was interesting because it is easy to forget that there are jobs in architecture aside from just an Architect. On Friday we went and looked at the Perot Museum and we explored The Water Gardens. That was such a fun experience because it was a very interactive environment and the different types of water gardens was so interesting because water is not commonly thought of as a building material and Philip Johnson used it in three very different ways. All in all it was a very fun trip and I learned a lot.