term IV review

http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/TermIVReview?feat=directlink

sleigh bells

hey, merry xmas eve!
hope everyone is having a special twinkly night!

















and MERRY CHRISTMAS from LONDON!

i wish i could see you all and give you big warm xmas HUGS.

prototyping presentation

http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/PrototypingWorkshop#

studio trashbox

hey so we had a big review last thursday, which we have spent the last weeks making "prototypes" for. Hence this mess that we call studio.

there is no candy corn!

Happy Halloween [late]! It snowed here. Yep.
And i COULD NOT find candycorn anywhere here. WHY?!










http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/Halloweeeen08#

GOBAMA!

VICTORY for AMERICRATS!













i am still up, watching the coverage of the election and wish i was there in the States to CELEBRATE this important event. This is a big deal.
I am so thankful, relieved, and excited.
This is a BIG deal.
We are ready for a new, changed nation.

amy jo, i can't believe you are there in Grant Park in Chicago right now, please scream and cry for me too! xoxo
jess, thanks for the extra cheers, i cheer for YOU and your strength my dear! xoxo

GO VOTE

big day, my friends, get to the polls! GOBAMA!
GO!
please win

CHARGE!

Q. How many San Diegans fit in Wembley Park Stadium?

A. 83,000.

hahhaa. Ok maybe not all those people were from San Diego. A few from New Orleans, and well, yeah, loads of non-americans, but the cool thing is this: my friend Prachi was here from SD for the Chargers vs. Saints football (american football) game. Yay!

So i got a chance to catch up with my darling friend while she was here for just a couple nights on her way to Africa . . . as everyone who seems to visit me lately . .. . anyway, it was great to see my friend and i now just hope she is safe from safari animals. :)
Big thanks to Prachi and her friends Tim and Jack for gifting me a free seat at the game in Wembley Stadium! The Chargers did lose the game - but it was close. ok. go team!

http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/SanDiegoCharger#

back to schooooooool, again!

Hi. I'm a student again.

FINAL TERM :
September 22, 2008 - February 15, 2009
Master of Architecture + Urbanism
Architectural Association School of Architecture

repeat #2 - go vikings! | 12.SEP.2008

My friend Alex was in England again for work recently and we got a chance to catch up a bit, amongst my family visits as well. As you may recall, alex is a superstar because he was my first visitor last year - and now he has visited again! way to go, Mr. Minnesota! Also we went out with his coworkers, who are super nice and from Ohio. Go go midwest!

Yay. http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/Repeat2#

mum-ma mia! | 10-17.SEP.2008

my mom came here! yay for "mum"! she also visited for a week, overlapping a few days while my sister was here, and then stayed with me in my little flat after they left. i think i may have walked her halfway around london, but as is the usual induced-exhaustion of my visitors. . . .heeee. Ooops. We had lots of excitement from "tea with the queen", to the theatre, to drinking at the pub, to truffles at Harrods, and me getting my purse stolen (oops again), etc. I made her try dim sum and also indian food - and of course the usual fish and chips. I loved her visit and can't wait to see my fam again! what was your favorite thing, mom?



http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/Mum#

sis + bro | 6-13.SEP.2008

my favorite sister, stephanie, and her husband, wil, came to visit me in london for a week. i squeezed them into my tiny flat and we had a great time pub-crawling around the town together. it was so great to have family here for the first time! xoxoxo



http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/StephWil#

since 1985 | 1.SEP.2008

one of my best friends on the planet was in london a night to see me on her way back to los angeles from the summer in africa . . . (oh and she's a bigger nerd than me - doing her phD at UCLA - so 3 cheers to being a starving students again!)

we've been friends since i was 5! now that is worth celebrating over some seriously large drinks!

http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/FromAfricaToLosAngeles#

repeat #1 - the sarah! | 30.AUG.2008

sarah visited (again!) for a couple nights. she is a superstar (as you can see her, very smiley, here with Nigel the Duck, our new friend.)
sarah is my first friend to visit 2 times! Less than one year since her last trip to London. now that is cool. extra points for the sarah! come on people, start catching up!!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/Repeat1#

my own flat, finally! | 5.AUG.2008

i moved. AGAIN. yes, really . . . . but to my own little tiny flat! its glorious. and superclose to my school and my studiospace. YAYayayay. Its ridiculous of course, but honestly i am so happy i can almost forget the cost! (haha, almost!)

http://maps.live.com/?v=2&where1=WC1A%201JS&encType=1

pouring pints | 7.JUL.2008 - 12.SEP.2008

this summer i worked full-time at a Pub. Yep, pretty funny eh? It was more exhausting than i expected, but a good work-out and nice to be standing up, moving my body - rather than sitting staring at my laptop all day. I made some good friends and really enjoyed being 'sociable' again! fun fun. so now i am an expert 'barmaid'. ha!

i'm continuing to work on the weekends this fall to earn a little extra cash. The pub is called the Horse and Groom and owned by the small british brewery, Samuel Smith. It sells only its own beers and actually is really cheap for london prices: 2pounds/pint! 128 Great Portland Street, W1W. CHEERS!

http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/ThePub#

liverpuddlejumping | 16.JUL.2008

i didn't take any major trips this summer, but i did take a day to liverpool. here are the images from the famous "european capital of culture": liverpool.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/Liverpuddle

123 work | 30.JUN.2008

my team's proposal for ras' al-khaimah, united arab emirates . . . more description coming soon
http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/123FinalPresentation#

i'm alive, i'm living

I realize that i haven't been updating the blog lately, though i don't know if anyone has noticed! :(

Anyway, i am alive, working, sleeping, etc. and will add some new posts shortly describing what i have been up to this summer, i.e. working at a pub, moving apartments again, hosting visiting friends and family, and preparing for return to thesis maddness! [yess i mean maddness with 2(d)s!]
also i would love to know what all of you are up to. Please email me. i'm not dead - just in london!

No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." — Samuel Johnson

phase I work

here is a collection of images from all (11) teams in the DRL. [my team's work is labeled: 123]
go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/PhaseIWork to view the slideshow larger



www.aadrl.blogspot.com

exhibition, the fast one

at the end of each year, the AA puts on a huge exhibition of all the course work during the year. Usually, 2 weeks is spent at the end of term preparing for this. Thankfully, we worked only for a few days on it, as we had requested our reviews to be pushed back due to the DRLTEN exhibition we had put on earlier in the year. Here are a couple photos. Simple. Green.

see the rest here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/ProjectsReviewExhibition

phase I final jury images

Here is some "scenic" photography of our final reviews at Rove Gallery, featuring the critics (previously listed in the "info" posting). Each of the (11) teams presented and received comments, lasting about an hour each, over 2 days. (10) printed sheets of A0 were required along with the projected presentations.

My team, 123, presented last on the first day and had on the jury: Alisa Azndrasek, Frank Barkow, Dana Cuff, Winka Dubbeldam, Lars Spuybroek, Ben Van Berkel, Brett Steele, and Zaha Hadid. eee-yeah. A number of these pictures are from our review. Overall, we survived and got helpful comments. also, i finally used the laser-cutter at school and learned Flash [which also involves f'ing scripting!], with some serious help from friends, and am becoming so computer-software obsessed it is scary. I think i have forgotten how to draw. Eeh.



http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/DRLFinalPhaseIJury

the good news is, we "passed" and get to move onto "phase 2" next fall. of course, we have to do work this summer, but i am a bit relieved not to feel so negatively stressed. Phew.

schoooools - out - for - summer

i have gotten some sleep now. It is glorious. "phase I" is over. DRL summertime has begun. and guess what, the sun does shine here . . . for a few minutes, between violent bursts of pouring rain. . . .

the beauty cake

look at this cake my teammates bought for me on my birthday. It was almost too pretty to eat . . . . but it tasted even better, imagine. Ah.

DRL FINAL JURY info

Design Research Lab [DRL] Phase I Final Public Jury
Monday 30 June and Tuesday 1 July, 10.00 to 6.00
Kenny Schachter ROVE Gallery, 33 Hoxton Square, London N1

Phase I students have explored urban globalisation and the diverse contingencies, constraints and opportunities of four sites located in New York, Moscow, São Paolo and Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE.
Four parallel design studio briefs by Yusuke Obuchi, Patrik Schumacher, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes focused on the design of urban and architectural prototypical environments.

Invited critics include: Alisa Azndrasek, Frank Barkow, Dana Cuff, Winka Dubbeldam, Philippe Morel, Lars Spuybroek, Charles Jencks, Neil Spiller, Charles Walker.

[team] 1 2 3 [site] ras' al-khaimah, united arab emirates
claudia dorner [austria], sergio reyes [colombia], and myself [usa]

eleven

[days til review:11] . . . is this stuff clear? No. . . . I don't think so either!

F.

T-13 [days]

bigAL, big30

watch out, san diego!

H A P P Y 3 0 A L I S O N !
[insert vodka cocktail here]

photo: LITTLE SEQUOIA in her natural environment, sans theGHOSTBEAR5.

31 fathers' days

to the coolest DAD in the world:
H A P P Y F A T H E R S ' D A Y
love you lots and hope you have a great day. i miss you tons!

. . . so, which toy are you going to drive today?
. . . ok, 5 seconds, what are these pictures of, exactly?

june gloom

this month will probably hold few postings, as we are entering the final weeks of termIII, preparing for the big presentations June 30-July 1 [2008] of our preliminary design proposals. eeek. luckily, after July4th or so, we are technically on summer "break" which means i might be able to calm down a bit and perhaps do some laundry. :)

the sun has been shining more often here though, and i just realized that its June! time is, well, where is the time?!
hope you are all escaping any june gloom and enjoying the summer - wow, did i just say summer? Huh. That's strange.

june at the AA means people eat lunch outside . . . in the pavillion: cspacepavilion.blogspot.com/

baby's first "parametric tower"

I recently attended a 4-day workshop on the parametric (rule/relationship-based) software program called Digital Project. It is a version of Catia (typically in aerospace engineering for designing spaceships or something) developed by Gehry Technologies, which is a branch of Frank O. Gehry Associates (big-wig architect, Los Angeles). They have created their own version of the software program for architecture and it is amazing.

You draw everything based on relationships to other things, and develop a set of inputs that you can control to see variations and different scenarios without having to draw 9000 versions. It is very difficult, as it took us 3 hours just to draw 3 points and 2 lines, but at day four we had completed a building envelope, a shell structure, a floor slab system, and a detailed facade with responsive components. All of which had their own set of parameters you could adjust to see different results. Each part is linked to the other parts and updates itself according to any changes made. Its really powerful. I am not using it specifically for my project yet, but hope to incorporate it a lot after this next big review. [I'll try to put up some other images soon.] Go, go, skyscrapers.

It is crazy. http://www.gtwiki.org/

boo for no more booze

Yesterday was the last day of being able to legally drink on the tube and other buses and public transport in london. Boo. Thats dumb, huh.

Atleast i got to do it a few times . . . . and see, Craig: Kelley and I were legal - wuss! :) Now we are part of history!


Sad days of Londsay. Future visitors will not get this fun experience. (Though i didn't even know about it - apparently there was a huge party on the tube last night)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/boris_johnson/2060924/Carnage-during-Tube-alcohol-party.html

memorial day

so apparently the brits have a "bank holiday" today too, not sure why - they have "remembrance day" at a different time of the year . . . . but i guess it just seems a good day to have a holiday, all around the world.

hope its a bit sunnier for all the festivities back in the states . . . things are a quite wet here at studio!

[midTerm]WORK

our project, sited in Ras' al-Khaimah, northeast of Dubai along the coast of the Persian Gulf, explores geometries and variations associated with arabic patterns in an attempt to find contemporary formal, structural, and organizational solutions (using parametric and computational tools) for an architectural and urban proposal that maintains a link to cultural specificity while contending with the rapid globalization of the emerging city. we situate our selected site as a central node to connect three different parts of the city, bridging from seacoast across an inland estuary and toward the desert and mountains.
this work is in an intermediate stage, simply showing a production of process and ideas to be developed for our proposal presentations at the end of Term III, June 30 - July 1.

larger viewing of the files: http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/MidTermIIPresentation

sister sister

hey, STEPH: happy birthday, sissy!
have a giant fishbowl drink to celebrate getting past 30!

midTERM!

sooo, big review with microphones on thursday. crap!

so yeah, um, here's a site map. yep, that's all you get til after the review, then maybe i'll upload some actual pictures of the work! eh

oh, brother

also as a proper dirtbag sister, i was a bit late to wish my favorite brother a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on May 4th. seems he's now scubadiving in the mexican seas or something . . . must be rough being over 30!

CHEERS WIL!

and also a small bat-sized cheers to GUINNESS

mother's day - in the USA!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to my mom of course . . . good thing she reminded me - ooops!
. . . but atleast it looks like someone remembered to get her something - nice caddy!

GLAM3

I am so spoiled, two of my bestest san diego girlfriends were here last weekend visiting me! yay. For a moment, we were 3.

I managed to fit them both inside my tiny flat and we had a great couple of days together. Now there are off in Prague, Vienna, Zurich, Florence, or Rome . . . yes, they left me behind!

http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/GLAM3

american invasion

as you may have heard, some very dear friends of mine recently visted LONDSAY [from san di-ah-go: Craig, Kelley + Steve; and from pittsburgh: Matt + Michelle: though really all proper "midwesterners" from the start!]. of course, i forced them to eat fish and chips . . . and peas, but we didn't get the mushy ones! i was upset really :(

while i was doing some work, they managed to tour the town - in abnormally sunny and warm temperatures (perhaps following them from california) - from top to bottom, and i met up with them daily in time for beers, beers, and more beers! heee. We also went to the The-a-tre (insert funny snooty accent) and went to some really great restaurants and bars. You can view the rest of the pictures here (click on "slideshow"): http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsaycarol/MidwesternersLostInLondontown

it was amazing to have them here and i only hope they enjoyed their stay as much as me! the crazies also tagged visits to other countries in with their trips, so should have been officially exhausted by the travelling madness.