Other Work
Architectural History
As part of the sophomore architecture curriculum, I took two architectural history courses, one covering the time periods of ancient history through the Renaissance, the other the Renaissance through the 20th century. As part of each, I conducted extensive research on a building of my choice, and then wrote a lengthy paper on said building. For the first course, I chose to research and write about King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England, and for the second, I selected Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Movements in Modern Architecture
For this course, considered "writing-intensive" by Temple University's course catalog, I wrote two major pieces.
The first, The Architect's Duty, is a short manifesto that allowed me to discuss what I believe the role of an architect ought to be, incorporating lessons from my upbringing in the process.
In the second piece, "Modern Architecture Uninhibited": The Story of Googie, I wrote about my favorite style of architecture, viewing it through both an architectural and cultural lens. In doing so, I was able to expand upon thoughts first touched upon in my manifesto as well as combine my major, Architecture, with my minor, American Studies, to form my longest research paper yet.
Materials and Methods of Construction
This course involved a semester-long project wherein I researched, spec-ed out, designed, and finally constructed a mock-up of a detail of an actual building. I chose to construct a portion of the exterior tensioned framework system of the Pompidou Center in Paris. Below are the construction drawings I produced and followed to build the mock-up, along with pictures of the final mock-up itself.
American Studies coursework
A number of the courses I have taken for my minor in American Studies have involved writing a final paper. For some of these, I was able to write about architecture-adjacent topics and add some of my accumulated architecture knowledge to these papers.
For the class entitled "American Things: Introduction to Material Culture," the assignment was to pick an object on Temple’s campus and research it and write about it over the course of the semester. I decided to look into Temple’s western gate, something I had walked through countless times, but didn’t really know a ton about.
For the class entitled "Baseball and American History," the assignment was to pick an object to which I had a personal connection. As an architecture student who hails from Maryland, the pick of Camden Yards was a relatively obvious one.
