On The Ground

Headlines

09/8 Data center opposition in our backyard: the seventh floor is louder than ever as the new “data center” occupies the back half of the Post-Pro studio space; opposition to the development is unanimous and complaints have been filed.

09/14 Students break bread with technologists at the first ai@Architecture lunch session, where VINCENT GUERRERO urges us to use the automation toys that the school has purchased on our behalf, while expecting us to keep a straight face when he says the words “BoodleBox,” “Bots++” and “ComfyUI.”
09/15 ETHAN LAMPING’s bike was stolen out of his backyard by n’er-do-well—chase and yell after anybody riding a Nishiki Blazer.
09/16 Wednesday @11:30 pm, PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN studio, 4th floor: Yes, we are still [pain]ting!
09/18 A small new cat species known as TILCAYO drops in Bolivia; the badminton tournament enters into the second round.

Cohort Updates

M.ARCH I ‘29 / Simon Goldsmith
Dual arrivals: a mini fridge and a microwave have inaugurated the sixth floor as ours. The two generous classmates who brought them have done the important work of announcing: we are here to stay and we are in it together. The outermost layers of newness have begun to wear off, and that means talking more, to more people, and making rounds. It means thinking harder for a harder project, drawing and drawing over. Sharing snacks. Pinning up, and upside-down. The grade of see–think–produce has been pitched up, wind and rain on the double-high glass. We are breaking out jackets and sweaters. By the first of October, we’ll have climbed another switchback, and then some.

M.ARCH I ‘28 / Maggie Holm
Spirits are lifted with closer proximity to fiery badminton wars and $2 cortados. Spirits are sunken when a student body that cares deeply about environmental design is nodding off or doodling obscenities during the dry namesake class. Sunken are spirits when what’s left of our attenuated budget is siphoned into more AI lunch-and-learns and fewer Thursday lectures. Lifted are spirits when Mizuki’s laugh echoes across 4 and 5.

M.E.D. / Alp Demiroglu
The first years have arrived and are settling into the rhythms of Rudolph Hall. Ehsan, Myles, and Janette join us at our jewelbox tucked in the corner of the fourth floor, with Foucault watching over us, or perhaps just watching us…

Over the summer, the second years conducted fieldwork and took a much needed break—now ready and refreshed to write our theses. In these first few weeks of the new academic year, the six of us have met for drinks and dinners, and are already planning the next semester’s MED Working Group events. After an engaging first workshop, the MEDs are energized for wherever this year will take us.

M.Arch II ‘28 / Ana Bulacovschi
What even is a thesis?

After our first month at YSOA, we began to feel at ease: our studio classmates have done a great job at welcoming us and showing us around. However, every Wednesday, when we discuss our research, the dreaded question arises: Why are you doing a thesis? We immediately snap back into our newbie state of mind. I guess the more you know, the less you know.

M.Arch II ‘27 / David Rico-Gomez
The second year Post Pro’s have ascended to their desks on the seventh floor, happy to be free of last year’s advanced studio obligations. We’ve had a few weeks to try and settle back into our thesis research, but now our first big deliverable looms large: the Pamphlet. We welcomed Luke Bulman back to the seventh floor to lead a series of pamphlet/book making workshops and are now taking advantage of travel week to create our own.

Cocktail Review: Rosetta S. Elkin, “The Retreat Cocktail” / David Rico-Gomez
poignant lecture yet
forgotten after drinking
a few strong retreats