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Thesis Semester [blog] 25 years ago
2006.01.17 12:02
Bachelor of Architecture, Temple University, 1981
The first week of the this semester (72 hours, actually) is devoted to the Stewardson Competition, whose site this year is the quondam Ronaele Manor, a Widener related estate designed by Horace Trumbauer. I'm busy reenacting Schinkel and Krier (and I'll get into the top six). Wesley Wei wins by very exactly reenacting (really pure plagiarism though) Otto Wagner's Interimskirche (Temporary Church, 1905) design.
I'm working on the competition in my apartment over Riesman Funeral Home [Orthodox Jewish, thus no embalming here] on north Broad Street, the longest straight urban street (a true cardo) in the world. On the last night it suddenly looks like the ink is not going to adhere to the board because of the graphite line tracings. My anxious corporal reaction produces so much body heat that the window in front of my drawing table actually steams up. Believe it or not, a scum bag comes to the rescue.
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