This time last week, I was mentally gearing up for one of the longer plane rides I've had the chance to experience. Hard to believe a week has come and gone in Italy. Tomorrow marks day #7, and we've already had the chance to see the great Roman sites, wander into some truly beautiful space, and figure out how to live amongst many. In the first week, while the Pantheon was truly remarkable, I found myself most taken by a small Protestant Cemetery in the Testaccio neighborhood. Had a friend of mine not recommended we go there, I most certainly wouldn't have found it by this time. (see photos below) With reference to the title of this post, however, one interaction in particular sums up the language barrier we're working with. Before embarking on a walking tour of the neighborhood in which studio is situated, a few of us thought we might have time to grab a small portion of pizza to eat before the tour. Working against the clock, we went to the nearest bar and placed our order. After being asked to sit while we wait, we realized a small miscommunication as we hadn't indicated we were looking for this order to be to-go. Apparently, we had confused more than just the nature of the order when the man looked quite surprised about how he was to package our order so that we might take it along. We soon realized our mistake as three entire pizzas (we're talking 12" in diameter, at least), each folded in half, and placed in a pastry bag to walk with emerged from behind the counter. The more i reflect on this experience, the more I believe we found a calzone's fraternal twin. The goal of this blog is not to document a play by play, rather subtle findings I find to define my experience here. I plan to primarily document my time in Rome through photographs here. I'll also be adding a second tab dedicated to my sketch book as the semester continues. Day #7 begins in just a matter of hours! Thanks for checking in! Various counts: Days in Italy: 6 Spring Break: 59 Days until the Maltby clan travels Italy together: 114
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I could have named this post "Summer: 2013," or "A Day in the Life of Jill Maltby: Summer Intern," or maybe even "The Internship: Part I" -- however, this summer, I just grooved thanks to ASK Studio. Where might my groove status have taken me, you wonder? In just about every piece of the architecture industry an intern could hope to test run. Over 600 hours later, I've been able to document time in:
- construction documentation for projects in Des Moines, Ames, Urbandale, and Spirit Lake - competition graphics for eventual award submittals to three major organizations - construction phase observation on three different sites - evaluation and observation of conditions within affordable housing projects - research on current and projected trends in affordable housing and net-zero options - observation of architectural photography shoots - touring famous works by Herzog & de Meuron otherwise unable to be toured - studio travel to San Francisco - business operations with open houses of ASK Studio - taking a piece of the Walker Johnston Shelter House through schematic design, design development, and construction documentation, Fortunately, I was required to document EVERY DAY of this summer. Check out what life as a ASK Studio intern looks like: CLICK HERE Besides the countless new artists I'm excited about, I also became a fan of "cupcake culture" with surprise trips to Scratch or Crème. However, with the recent completion of the AIA Iowa Convention, I am pleased to report that ASK Studio received the Excellence in Design award for the Walker Johnston Park Shelter in Urbandale, IA. I primarily worked on signage and competition graphics for the FEMA-rated shelter. As Rob Whitehead so eloquently stated, "working on projects with recognition like that really make you think, I CAN do this." Indeed. As an intern with ASK Studio, I recently had the opportunity to observe a photography session in action. Little did I know, architectural photography is an extreme sport of sorts (or perhaps the function of the building demanded extreme measures be taken in order to capture the right shot). Regardless, documentation of the Terry Trueblood Lodge was our undertaking for the day and it. was. great. Sunburn aside, we were hiking off the trail path, traveling along the edge of the lake, trudging across the peninsula leading furthest into the lake's center, standing on top of trucks, and even contemplating renting a boat in order to nab the perfect shot. Of course, a little bit of a waiting game took place as site maintenance crews were causing an almost "oklahomaesque" dust cloud of sorts around the lodge. However, that waiting time only lent to the even more extreme accounts of the photographer, Prof. Cameron Campbell, and his experience with aerial shoots from planes and helicopters. Thrilling? INDEED. [check out scenes from the lodge below] http://www.askstudio.com/index.ht_ml
A compilation of footage (both personally shot and appropriated) to supplement my current, ARCH 302, studio apartment project located at the intersection of Broome and Crosby in New York city. The project clients are those that identify with the demoscene.
This compilation aims to highlight the relation of human interaction and technology. The overlying narrative maps how interaction changes once one advances beyond the initial overwhelmed perception one might have of NYC. Appropriated Footage: "Chaos Theory" - Conspiracy Music Selection: "Extreme Ways" - Moby "Session" - Lincoln Park "Moth's Wings" - Passion Pit Silent retreats’ rising popularity poses a challenge: How to handle the quiet It has been exactly one week since the completion of third year final reviews, and suddenly the above article has somehow managed to change my position regarding our most recent project. We were assigned to design a retreat for the medical community of Des Moines in the rural glory of Madison County, Iowa. While searching for a starting point, my partner and I decided that a series of informal conversations with members of the community would be our best bet. Through these conversations, we found that several members would not use such a opportunity. Perhaps they were realists, or work driven, or even unacquainted with the advantages that a retreat project typology could offer. However, we found that making the first move for a project that would ultimately be rendered meaningless by those intended to utilize the space was by far one of the most challenging problem settings for attempted solution we had taken on yet. Each step throughout the process had me wondering if we could, through design, reverse the almost non-existant value placed on solitude and retreat, specific to Des Moines. At first, I wasn't so sure. Boorstein's writing makes me understand that such a reversal of opinion, regarding retreat, may actually be possible. Such a shift is already apparent elsewhere. http://www.krobarch.com/index.asp
While I should probably be discouraged from any further productivity, the above site is easily one I find myself continuously navigating while putting together a portfolio. We need to let one another into our own sketch books more often. Alex Olevitch introduced me to this project this afternoon. The analysis associated behind why we value the objects we do is fully illustrated in this SOM Foundation project. What resonates as truly amazing, is the idea that upon death, what we value can be placed back into the circulation cycle that society upholds. Processions of the deceased travel through a process for their eventual re-introduction. Aside from incredible rendering and visual representation, the thought behind the project is incredible. Something only truly understood if you take a look at the founders words . http://www.somfoundation.som.com/booklets/ukaward2012/ These are the types of projects we should compose once in awhile. |
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