Hey Everyone!
I hope your first few weeks of school are going well, and you’re
having a great time with the architecture LLC. It was awesome to hear that so
many of you made it out for the Sandcastles event last weekend. You’re going to spend a lot of time with your
fellow architecture students the next 4 years as you progress through the
architecture program, and it’s great to see some of you hanging out
already. On that note, I want to get
into my blog post for the month:
Utilizing Campus’ Greatest Resource:
The People
As a member of the UW-Milwaukee campus, you are associating
yourself with about 30,000 students and 1,600 faculty and instructors from
across the globe. Take advantage of
that! Whether they are coming from outside the country or they were born and
raised in Milwaukee, every student or faculty member has something to offer you
in experience and perspective. There are
few majors that can and should be taking advantage of this as much as
architecture. As you are probably
already beginning to realize in taking Professor Keane’s Architecture class,
learning the history of architecture and how it developed over time is
essential to understanding where we stand as architects in today’s society and
where it will be in the next 10 years and beyond. Get to know the people that surround you in
the architecture program. You’ll be surprised with how their perspective of
architecture differs from yours. As a
part of the LLC, you already have access to two great resources in Giuseppe Mazzone
and Miranda Mote. There is a reason they
were chosen to teach the LLC class.
As I continue to highlight significant architects and architecture
firms in my “Architect of the Week” e-mails, be on the look-out for those that
are a little closer to home. The impact
of our faculty on the Milwaukee community is incredible. Many of the professors
are actively connected to architecture firms and organizations in the area, and
by getting to know them you are not only building your knowledge of
architecture and its role in the community, but also expanding your network of
connections outside of the UW-Milwaukee campus.
It never hurts to meet new people, so get to know some of the support
network of students and faculty/instructors that surround you. You’ll be
surprised by what you learn!
-Joe Stefanich
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