Guitar

I have always been into music, and have played a number of different instruments in my life.  The guitar is one thing that I have come to love.  It is hard to find time to play the guitar, and a lot of the time it seems as though I use the guitar as a method of relaxation.

Image Abstract

Updated Topic Map

Sports "Nations"

Opening Day, Fenway Park. The revealing of the Banners.
The Redsox, Patriots, Bruins, and Celtics alike, all have a their respective nation.  Thousands of fans that all come to one place to watch.  There is something about having all of these people into one spot, and that they are all experiencing the same thing, that really stands out to me.  There is almost no other type of architecture that so many people can go to and get this same experience at the same time.

Nature

I took this picture while I was out in Sturbridge, MA.  I like the undisturbed land, and the calming feeling of hearing and seeing the water fall through the creek.

Idea/Topic Map

This was a topic map that I created for my thesis project.  I am interested in researching what was so important about historic architecture, and what it is people like about it.  Should we be bringing these different elements into the modern day?  That also poses another question that I  think I may want to look in depth at the fact that historic preservation and reconstruction may be a modern architecture.  I am very interested in the Boston area, in the topic map, you see the Boston train map in the background with various images from boston throughout.

Light and Shadow Collage first Iteration

This was the first iteration of the light and shadow collage and section.  In this one, the collage had not been abstracted.

Sailing Collage, first iteration

This is the first iteration of the movement collage that I did.  Earlier, I posted the final iteration of this.  The drawing shown below here was a section cut through the middle of the collage.

Movement Collage/Montage

Charles River, Boston

Another collage of images i took on the Charles River in Boston, this one is the expression of movement.  The section in this image, (again below) is cut in a way that follows the sailboats in time as they move across the image.

Light and Shadow Collage/Montage

The Christian Science Church:

This is a compilation of many images that I took one afternoon, to portray light and shadow.  I have collaged the photos together, and enhanced the image in photoshop to really get a sense of the contrast between the places the light falls and where the shadows are formed.  The image below, is a section cut, based on certain areas where the shadows are.

Piercing the Sky

As I was walking around City Hall Plaza, the Edward W Brooke Courthouse caught my eye.  Its sharp building edge pierces into the sky, and creates such a nice contrast of building and the surroundings.  I especially like when the triangulated corners of a building do this.  It is a common notion to think that a triangular site can pose such a problem, but when designed correctly it can be done quite beautifully.  (Also the Richard E. Griffin Academic Center for MCPHS on Huntington Avenue in Boston.)

Harvard Yard

Over the weekend I made my way over to Harvard to take a look at Sever Hall.  I recently had a lecture on H.H. Richardson and Sever Hall so I thought i would take a second look.  I walked around Harvard Yard, took some photographs, and was really struck by the original brick carvings.  I think that Richardson did a great job with this building (it had to be brick; Harvard's requirement).  As you can see, the original brick is in place, and has been carved into.