arkitortured
Arkitortured
Public policy and BArch | Current Architectural Designer | studying for ARE5.0
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01.11.24
LEED Ap study session.
With everything that’s happening right now makes me think about how architecture and city planning is being weaponized by Israel and it makes me sick. The fact that the tools that were taught to us to improve quality of life for people are being used to starved and imprison multigenerational groups of people is disgusting
#studyblr#architecture studyblr#arkitortured#100 days of productivity#archiblog#architecture#architecture student#LEED
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11.26.23
Chinese also pretty atrocious but can’t be worse than my Japanese or Korean lmao
How are you guys studying new languages please teach me this is so hard
Have not even touched my ARE 5.0 book yet weeeeee
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11.25.23
My Vietnamese is Lowkey atrocious
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11.21.23
I’m back. Graduated but need to study for my NCARB exams and LEED accreditation.
I spent the last 2 months trying to figure out what kind of designer I want to be. Found out that the site for one of my analysis projects at work in Gaza was decimated. It was a residential block. I think the oldest building was from the 30’s potentially 40’s. Most were 1960+ but I remember taking notes of where third spaces are present. Where people built community within the block and spent their time with their neighbors. It’s just gone? It feels weird to mourn something that was never mine.
It’s stupid of me to be sad a bunch of buildings are gone when millions of people are dying from this genocide. It makes me so angry and disgusted to watch my industry peers detach themselves and joke about “new contracts once this is all over” A whole culture and heritage point is being wiped clean along with the people who were meant to pass on their stories, and all the architecture industry has to say is “we can start fresh and build new”
I don’t even know where to begin for the people willingly staying on the encampment planning projects.
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01.06.23
It’s been 4 weeks since I finished my last studio. I’m 3 months into being a full fledge project associate and it feels so weird having free time again after work hours. I clocked out and was freaking out about maybe not having enough time before 11 pm to get hw done but remembered I have no more hw forever.
Weird.
Will start this blog up again when I start studying for my ARE 5.0 exams
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09.09.22. | senior design build project
A couple updates since I’ve been so MIA. I’m graduating in Dec and start my job as an associate designer in October. Interning was fun but I’m glad I’m no longer getting paid intern wages
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05.20.21. | 5:55 PM
Pesky final renders
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04.09.2021 | 12:23 Pm
Progression of my vignette designs for the Fillmore Library in SF. Final building will probably come out looking completely different but this space makes me happy.
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these pages took a while, part 2 of nottingham sketchbook
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Study tips for architecture school goes as following:
1. Learn when to cut your losses. You’re going to run out of time, you’re not going to finish the model if you spend 50 hours on the drawings.
2. Prioritize. Plan but be smart about it. Skip the “8 am - wake up, 9 am - draft” Nah, we run on big deadlines and the smaller deadlines before the big deadlines. Figure out what you NEED to do versus what you WANT to do. What’s more important a flawless model or a diagram that will explain your concept?
This is the same as setting boundaries for your personal life, learn to say no to plans. Don’t get FOMO and put yourself in situations that aren’t beneficial to you, it’s never worth it. Don’t want to do something? No. Need an excuse? Sorry, I’ve got studio.
3. Break your week up into chunks, list out EVERYTHING you need to do(draft, outline, render, model, diagram, revise) Everything. Monday to Tuesday : Draft + outline (and on and on)
4. Learn how to troubleshoot. You’re going to send in submissions for revisions at 2 am and think you’re done. Now you can move on to the next item on that long to do list. Wrong, you’re going to wake up to an email from your professor with a million revisions. This will throw off your planned timeline, figure what can be skipped and what can’t. Go cry, make some tea and keep working.
5. Learn how to talk to yourself. Literally out loud, talk to yourself like you’re working in a group. “What do we need to get done today?” “How long do you think that’ll take?” It boosts productivity when you’re not just wallowing in deadline anxieties.
6. Take breaks. Walk around your block, go cry in the shower, make some tea and snack on something, call a friend for 5 mins, do a face mask, and for God’s sake take a shower. Taking routine breaks have been proven to reduce anxiety and boost productivity and quality of work.
I would love to be those Studyblrs with calm and minimal desk, planning out their week every Sunday night but the reality is I can’t. We have supplies everywhere, half my bed is books and tracing paper. School will always be hectic and if I can’t keep up because I’m so busy beat myself up for not being perfect, I’m going to drown.
"study tips" make me so mad because it's always about plan out your week! Don't procrastinate! Always have your goals in mind! and it's like "well really great katherine, but I have anxiety". Most of the time, those tips are unrealistic and don't tell you how we all struggle in school. Fake positivity makes more damage than it shows.
Whatever your circumstances are, my only study tip is that you should be gentle to yourself. Take your time. You'll always have another chance. Breathe.
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01.08.21
The US is about to start a civil war. Previous wall detail section from fall semester
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Don’t be like me: I finished a 5 page structural report on the precast concrete ribs of the Sydney Opera house 2 hours before it was due in 45 mintues so I could go to my boyfriend’s house and play overcooked. I GOT A “B” LMAO
I am consistently convinced that my rushed/pressured work is 10000% better than my work with actual effort. I know that’s not healthy and I hate it. I’m just glad I’m not going to fail structures because this class was HARD
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A mood, when covid ends I want to have fun, not work on my portfolio 😭
I have 2 years worth of work backlogged that I need to post loool
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I have 2 years worth of work backlogged that I need to post loool
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14/03/19 - Some more technology notes and diagrams. A slow but productive day today!
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I love sketching buildings--especially buildings with character. The old places in downtown are so full of oomph, I never get tired of taking strolls here, looove living here.
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