Author: Artemiy Zheltov

I have been thinking all day about what I should write about today. I guess this blog post will be both a reflection on the past five months and a goodbye. “To enhance the visitor’s experience” – was our task and goal for this project. I think we achieved that goal. I realized that today [...]

It is 23:12 pm and I am writing from the Studio V headquarters. In a week from today we will be relaxing by the beach somewhere in the Bahamas with a pina colada. I can almost taste it now. That and a mixture of metal and wood shavings, glue and sweat. We are working at [...]

With 22 days left till the final review our studio is in full swing, working day and night to reach the goal and complete our project. Although now that I think about it for the architects the projects are never complete. So technically our goal is to almost complete the project… since I know Prof. [...]

It has been a busy day for Studio V. This morning we have met with Matt Compton who sits on the Design Review Committee and with whom we have discussed the structure that will sit right outside the window. From his words we understood that we will not have any problems passing the structure with [...]

Now that the spring break is behind us we are happy to spend our nights in studio again! Today we have met as a studio to finally “start finishing” the details. The atmosphere of the discussion was pleasant to say the least, there was no fighting, no yelling and no pans flying around. I think [...]

Brilliant, beautiful, well developed, original, elegant, interesting, top-notch - those were just some of the words that were used to describe our projects this morning by our guest critics at the review. Today after a sleepless night for the many of us we were able to present our project to the artist himself via skype: [...]

For those of you who are not familiar with the process we will be going through this semester – let me summarize. We started with a group charette last Friday upon conclusion of which, inspired and excited, we were given nine days to develop our own personal individual design. On Monday that phase of the [...]

It has been a long week. Studio V is going full speed towards the Monday’s review: researching, templating and composing. Professor Pastre elegantly introduced the project in his post, I, on the other hand, would like to step back and introduce all the players in the game this semester. My research topic for this week [...]