28.06.2022

28.06.2022

I did it guy's, I'm on vacations (until the grade it's out hahaha) 😋

Yesterday I had my final presentation of the architecture project. The day started at 6am because I was very anxious tbh (the presentation was at 10am).

I think it went okay, not grate, the professor found mistakes on every project but that's normal because people make mistakes right.

Now I'm taking some time to relax, read, sunbathe and try not to check the uni page to see the grades.

During this time I think I'm going to update you about what I'm reading and doing, I thought about taking some adobe courses.

I hope you're healthy and happy. Drink water and eat some candie, you deserve it 🖤

Art Nouveau doors in Brussels ❦

days that you work slower through things are just as valuable and important as the ones you work faster

btw you should absolutely read stuff you don’t agree with. you should think critically about it. you should reflect and find different stimuli and maybe even form your own thought based on or opposed to it. ideas aren’t contagious and reading words someone else has told you are “bad” won’t infect you like a virus and make you “evil”. read with your own brain.

Every person need to be taught disability history

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.” (A decision which still has not been reversed)

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors and parents left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Teach about us.

the architecture students

detailed sketches done on thin paper

a love for precision

learning about architectural styles and innovations across different regions and time periods

wandering around a new city, admiring the buildings

sketching ideas on scraps of paper 

a fascination with how the physical contours of a space can affect our experiences within it

visiting famous architectural landmarks, both ancient and modern

knowing that a building is far more than the materials that form it

having a favorite style of architecture and working its elements into your designs

arched ceilings, towering above your head

smudged ink from blueprints on your hands

designing buildings that are both beautiful and functional 

studying historical architectural feats

appreciating the smallest details of everything you do

carved stone tiles

using new technologies to make architecture more sustainable

an intricate combination of firmness, commodity, and delight, as Vitruvius described so long ago

the joy of seeing your concepts brought into the real world

making connections between mathematics, art, and engineering

dreaming of creating something that will last