Hey everyone my name is Bryan Cordova and I’m entering my fifth year at the School of Architecture. Over my past four years I’ve taken a wide range of classes from traditional lecture halls and studio environments to cooking classes and physics labs. I was also fortunate enough to have studied abroad in London and Florence the semesters right before the COVID-19 outbreak. This semester was definitely a forceful and self-motivational push on everybody’s end though from my experience, one piece of advice I could share would be to set weekly goals and keep track of incremental process work.
Unfortunately my summer plans to work in NYC had to change but I’m just as happy with where I am at now. I managed to secure an internship with a firm thats doing interesting research and entering design competitions on how we rethink NYC restaurants in the future. I’m looking forward to see how that plays out while also taking this writing class. Its a requirement I’ve been looking to fulfill for some time now but just never got to fitting it around my schedule. As I begin my final year of thesis, I’m certain the research skills and writing practice I can takeaway from this class will definitely be of value.
Nice to meet you, Bryan. Sounds like a fascinating and important opportunity you have this summer to be part of the discussion about how we design and uses spaces in the age of COVID. I look forward to working with you.