magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

monday. but there really isn't such a thing as the weekend anymore.

and it just keeps rolling on. i returned to the studio after dinner (i spent the afternoon working in the library, counting bricks in the photos of the buildings that i have to draw in order to estimate heights) and didn't leave until quarter past four.

about midnight andrew came in and, although i wasn't party to the conversation from what i understand, totally shot down our group site model. which illustrates quite nicely one of the major problems that i have with the architecture program here at risd. there's a huge emphasis placed on models (peter said in my evaluation from last semester: making is working), however there's no sort of instruction on the craft of actually building models. which on one hand is nice, because it allows you yr own way of making, of conceptually representing information. but on the other hand when the way that you do choose is shot down as being flat out wrong it would be nice if you knew beforehand some of the background as to why that way is wrong, so that you don't spend hours working on an ultimately futile path.

what would be really nice, and i'm certainly aware there's no room in the curriculum for it, would be a basic model building class, like the basic drawing classes that we're required to take. i might have mentioned that i'd even be psyched to do a six credit advanced studio on chipboard model making.

so anyway, that kind of upset me. i lost myself in the somewhat zen practise of drawing bricks (or at least a suggestion of bricks) in my street elevation though. and while my hand started cramping up a bit, it made the rest of the long night more enjoyable. i'm not sure i'd draw bricks that small again though.

and while i may have spent too much time on that drawing, i think it turned out to be the best architectural drawing i've ever done. so i think it was worth it.