Welcome to Architecture!

Hello and welcome to the Fall 2017 Architecture Living Learning Community!  This is peer mentors Emmy and JP, and RA Katy reporting in for this month’s blog post.  Each month, we will be sending out a blog post containing an update on the Architecture LLC here at UW – Milwaukee.  Students in the LLC experience the architecture program on a more connected level by living with their peers and attending a LLC course.  The LLC is off to a great start, both academically and socially.
In J.P.’s section of the LLC, the students have been taking inspiration from projects around the architecture building to create multiple drawings.  They then selected a couple drawings to morph into a crafted model.  This model will serve as a building block for the rest of the semester.  They are exploring concepts such as materiality, typology, and form finding. 

                In Emmy’s section of the LLC, students have been learning about site and how to analyze and diagram key features of a site. They also modeled the topography of a site near campus that they will eventually creating a design proposal for. Overall, the students have put forward some extremely well crafted and creative work.

                The LLC held its first even on Wednesday, September 20^th.  Students were tasked with creating a structure out of Legos that would then be critiqued and judged by the peer mentors and RA.  The top three designs received awards created by RA Katy.  It was a very successful event with some awesome creations and great conversation.