Inspirational Quotes

" In this idea originated the plan of the 'Lyrical Ballads'; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."


-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria


"We Abolish the stage and the auditorium and replace them by a single site, without partition or barrier of any kind, which will become the theatre of the action. A direct communication will be reestablished between the spectator and the spectacle, between the the actor and the spectator, from the fact that the spectator, placed in the middle of the action, is engulfed and physically affected by it. This envelopment results, in part, from the very configuration of the room itself."


-Antonine Artaud, The Theatre and its Double

Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Church of Light

John Hancock

Things I Can't Live Without

Diagrams are a tool I use in every one of my studio projects to explain my ideas. When a critic looks at a good diagram the project should almost explain itself.

Things I Can't Live Without

This past week I went on a trip around Boston with my studio class to see the history of Government Center. When we went to the Historic New England site at the Otis House Museum we got to see all these original drawings and sketches by Kallmann Mckinnel as well as photos of Scollay Square, and the Boston Fire that took out the Financial District. It was extremely interesting to find out different things about Boston that I had never knew before.

In short, you can't design until you know the history of the place that your designing in.

Things I Can't Live Without

The sun provides us with more than just warmth and the ability to give life to everything on the planet, but it also gives us natural light. In architecture natural light is an important thing. Many architects, like Tadao Ando, main  focus is light and shadow.

Time is something that many would like to say that they wish they could live without. There just doesn't seem to be enough time to get things done. In architecture time can be very interesting such as watching the evolution of materials over time or watching people use a space over time.

Things I Can't Live Without

A few different objects that i believe I couldn't live without are my Sketch Pad and Pencil. I have always been into drawing and painting since I was tiny. I enjoy it and it is something that will obviously continue for a long time in the future.

Perspective of the Greek Orthodox Church drawn Freshman Year

One thing I couldn't live without is baseball. I have played baseball my entire life. I am not playing at the moment but once I have some free time I am definitely joining a league. Hopeful soon!

http://www.eagletribune.com/sports/x1876243069/Late-bloomer-Landry-switches-putdowns-to-putouts-for-Post-4


Sight

Hands

Things I Can't Live Without

If anyone out there even knows me they already know what my first post is going to be. The first possible thing that I couldn't ever live without is my daughter Emma. She was born during one of the hardest and most stressful parts of my life so far. I love her to death and always will.