I have a dilemma. I am embarking on my fifth year as an architecture student at Syracuse University. And I'm officially stumped. As part of the intensive 5-year B.ARCH degree, the summation of our education reaches its pinnacle at the fifth year thesis. And I just have NO idea what I want to spend the next year (hypothetically) developing and designing.
The fall semester is dedicated to a project proposal in which we conduct thorough, on-site research in order to develop an intellectual design problem. Ideally, the research and design problem will evolve into a project, filled with site and design strategies, comprehensive drawings, gripping renderings, and phases of final exquisite models. Ugh. My head hurts just to think about it.
So, in an effort to get a jump on it (something, in theory love doing, I just never seems to follow through to see the fruits of my early labor at the end of such endeavors), I set out on possibly the hottest day this year (thus far, and in my non-AC, broken radio antenna 1980 Accord) to Barnes and Nobles.
B&N is like the holy grail to me. I feel more intellectual just walking down the sacred aisles. On a typical trip, I'd aimlessly grab books off of the shelves, sometimes feigning interest in a book I likely skimmed at best in 9th grade English/Lit, and nonchalantly return them to their perch.
But today, I was on a mission to find a social ill. A dilemma in our world that I could care about enough. Something that could provide me enough fodder to sustain me for research and inevitable project. Well, I didn't find it today. Instead, I was exposed to dozens of new magazines that I had never seen before!
Here's my new favorite: Above Magazine
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