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Back Up Again Pt.2

I looked at this blog for the first time in almost a year today, and for the first time since I began my pursuit of education I have the ability to mark some sort of clearly defined change in mindset from point A to point B. 

I just got back from Charleston, SC on a site study and on the unexpectedly long drive(traffic and delays both ways) I had the opportunity to get lost in conversation and thought with my colleagues without the formal niceties of studio small talk. We jumped from studio talk to politics, to food preferences and trends, back to architecture, and the perspective from these kind of back-and-forth jumps establishes perspectives that one may normally give no conscious thought towards. Of these one stood out: Larry, the gentleman riding shotgun, had a talk with my professor just a few days prior (given his age, they likely spoke more candidly than would have with any of the other students) and the conversation reverted back to classwork. She (my professor) made the point that architecture is a field unlike any other in the sense that there aren't text books for studio, which is the landmark of architectural education. Because of this non-x=y field which encompasses such a wide range of smaller pieces, we essentially are teaching ourselves through the duration of our education, with only the advice of other students and teachers to buffer veering too far in one direction or another.

Since we are teaching ourselves and learning through autonomous retention and adaptation, this change in mindset from the beginning of this blog until now is a beautiful, very real thing, and I'm sure if looked at for long enough could lend some clues to a pattern or trend in the future. 

But, I digress.

I happened to capture a fair amount of pictures digitally in Charleston so I'll post those in the following post and do a follow-up in the next post.