Introducing the LA Club Officers... In Game Style!

     Recently, the club held officer elections for the 2014 - 2015 school year.  I decided it would be fun to introduce the new officers in a fun way!  Here is a fun game created by yours truly in the style of the addictive game 2048.

     Here's how you play: Move the tiles around on the board using the arrow keys.  When you combine two of the same tiles, the create a new tile.  In the original game, you must get from the number 2 tiles to the tile number 2048.  In this version, you must get from our incoming Junior Representatives to our Current President.  Enjoy!!    Click here to play the game!

List of officers in "Order of Appearance:"

- Amber Betances (incoming Junior Rep.)

- Shaun Thomson (incoming Junior Rep.)

- Eugene Fernandez (current Junior Rep.)

- Mark Lacey (incoming Treasurer and current Junior Rep.)

- Sara Yildirim (current Treasurer)

- Theodore Aretakis (incoming Secretary)

- Kimberly Richmond (current Secretary)

- Arturo Sangregorio (incoming Vice President and current Junior Rep.)

- Gwen Heerschap (current Vice President)

- Ellen Gallagher (incoming President)

- Alexandra Duro (current President)

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Roosevelt Praxis Studio Work Samples

Class Photo 

Photo by: Kate John-Alder, Professor

Ideograms

Jack Peters, Senior

Sara Yildirim, Senior

Gwen Heerschap, Senior

Miloni Mody, Second Year Grad

Tom Wyllner, Junior

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Portrait-folio - Portraits of Blake Hall

Life can get a bit hectic at Blake Hall, and among all the activities, and school work, and classes, we barely have any time to unwind and get into new hobbies just because we feel like it.

One not so hectic day a long time ago during one of our NJASLA student chapter meetings, we had an activity sort-of like musical chairs with a twist: we would all be sketching, or painting, or drawing, but when the time came to switch seats, we would have to leave our artwork behind for the next person to continue developing it however they pleased.  That was the night I drew two very quick portraits that would later become inspirations for a series of Cray-Pas portraits I am currently working on. That is of course only whenever Blake Hall's unforgiving clocks have a few minutes to spare for me, and one of my new found hobbies.

The developing series had no name until Senior Jack Peters suggested I called it PORTRAIT-FOLIO.

The Portrait-folio series is developing, and some say it is actually getting better portrait after portrait.  Mind you, I am no expert, but I reckon some of these do look very nice.

I decided to start exclusively with our fellow Seniors, since they will be graduating soon, and the time to get these dear friends of ours into the series is running out.  Below are some of the portraits I have finished so far.

PS: Shout-out to our very incredible, and awesome Sara Yildirim for lending me he very nice cray-pas set indefinitely for the duration of the series.

- Arturo Hernandez Sangregorio

Deanna Lu - Senior

Chris Perez - Senior

Jack Peters - Senior

Josh Mieloch - Senior

Michelle Hartman - Senior

Alyssa Viani- Senior

Sara Yildirim - Senior

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Somerville Praxis Discussion: Kim

After the class decided to take a part of the inventory leg work we were asked to discuss our findings. The sight has historic, ecological and social context which makes the analysis part critical as we move into the design phase of the project. With a broad range of information this class hopes to produce some innovative ideas for this brownfield site.

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SHAPE + SPACE

so we've all taken dean cardasis' class

but i'd like to open this post up for discussion by introducing the following

juan grimm paisajismo / jardín papudo, chile

The Tucson Mountain Retreat by DUST Architecture

Gridded garden by Glen’s Landscaping & Garden Maintenance

private garden | oxfordshire ~ dan pearson studio

canal gardens in amsterdam 

Barbican centre, London by Chamberlain Powell and Bon

 Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park

General Maister Memorial Park by Bruto Landscape Architecture

Twisted Valley by Grupo Aranea

Jesse Untracht-Oakner

what's your definition of space? how do you define it? color, texture, material- I think we all know the basics but it's important to revisit them

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Praxis Studios 2014!

Time is flying!  The Junior, Senior and Second Year Graduate students are already approaching their fourth week in the 2014 Praxis Studios, three courses  designed to facilitate collaboration among various skill sets and interests.


The first option presented to the students to chose from is a postindustrial landscape in Summerville, New Jersey. Instructor Frank Gallagher and students are working with the township, challenged to develop a restoration plan that explores the potential of enhancing and creating wetlands within an urban brownfield while providing a green network of open spaces between the Raritan River and the downtown core of the city.


Option number two is led by Assistant Professor Kathleen John-Alder, an investigation of a Jersey Homestead community now called Roosevelt. Located in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Roosevelt is a borough with a deep cultural history; a landscape with multiple and constantly changing narratives. Students of this studio are examining the layers of this landscape and expressing their findings through techniques such as model making, creation of timelines, sequential framing, process mapping, transects, ideograms, collage, juxtaposition and selective erasure.




The third studio course is just outside the doors of Blake Hall, titled "The Nichol Avenue Project: visible and invisible connections between community and campus". Taught by Instructor Richard Alomar, students are studying Nichol Ave as an edge condition between Cook Campus and the adjacent New Brunswick neighborhood. The goal is to engage actively in the process of community design, place making and programing based on factors such as analysis, community workshops, and digital and analog mapping.


The walls of the three studio rooms are quickly filling up with inventory and analysis, sketches, maps and idea so stay tuned to see the work of theses innovative young minds!

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Interactive Skateboard Bench

By: Alexandra Duro

The benches in the photos below were used at the NJASLA at Atlantic City.  The students of the student chapter at Rutgers took the time to put the design together and to build 3 benches.  The bench in the photos below is only one of them.  The bench was composed of 2 x 2's and re-purposed skateboards cut down to fit to the design.  Please stay tuned to see more photos of the rest of the benches and what a successful trip Atlantic City will be.  

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