Category: Professor Posts

It's Sunday evening and I am writing tonight while being distracted by the Emmy Awards airing in the background.  I would rather not admit this, but it got me to thinking about some parallels between this awards show and the upcoming week for Studio V (bear with me on this... it is a stretch, I [...]

I have once again put off posting for the weekend till the 11th hour.  This procrastination is partly due to my nature, and partly due to finding myself at a loss for words.  I think my loss for words comes from being excited to begin the design process while at the same time being uneasy with the [...]

When my wife Amy and I moved to Charleston ten years ago we knew nothing about the city and its neighborhoods.  After living and renting in downtown Charleston for two years we decided we wanted to look to buy a house in the city.  We took many things into consideration when choosing where to look [...]

Welcome to the CAC.C Studio V blog for the Spring 2011 semester.  We are going to follow in the footsteps of Professor David Pastre's Fall 2010 Studio V and record our design/build process through this blog. This semester Studio V will focus on one project, a vertical urban garden.  We are working with the Charleston [...]

It has been over a month since we last posted on the Studio V blog, and the hiatus was most needed and well deserved.  Even though we stopped blogging after the students presented their documentation of the semesters work on December 1st, a lot of work still continued on to finish out the semester.  I'll [...]

I almost didn't post tonight.  It's been a long weekend and I am exhausted, but a lot of progress has been made I need to mention.  Almost all of the parts have been made for the movie screen and we are planning on standing the structure up for the first time tomorrow.  The trailer is [...]

No time for a long post this evening.  Things have been full speed ahead at JMO this weekend with no major hiccups along the way.  Hopefully the rest of the road is as smooth.  I'll leave you with a great little video I find inspiring.  Massimo.  How can you not be a bad ass designer [...]

Rest assured that Studio V is not building your run of the mill, mediocre, outdoor-mobile-movie screen. (with custom trailer)

This video is a must see for all students.  It's "Mad Men", only much nerdier.  Studio V is also instituting a new dress code starting today: •Starched white dress shirt (short sleeve preferred) •Skinny black tie •Black horn rimmed glasses •Pocket protector (standard)

As I sit down to write my weekly post, my son is spending his first night in what we have dubbed the "Big Boy Bed".  I have to remind myself to give Otto space at times like this so hopefully he'll become an independent, confident child and one day adult. In many ways, I have [...]