architecture: music, city, and culture

Below are the posters that were presented during thesis fair at the architecture school (september 4-5 2008).

final project for arch678z (may 2008)

The following is a short film that I have composed with Ritsaart Marcelis for Peter Noonan's class "Sensing Architecture: Body and Place". The film explores how music affects our emotional perception of space, using University of Maryland's mall as the referential space.

Peter Noonan's bio : http://arch.umd.edu/people/faculty_and_staff/bio.cfm/89

Peter Noonan's website: http://mcinturffarchitects.com/

and here we go

As of September 5th 2008, I have officially kick started what is known as "thesis year" at the University of Maryland. I am expected to conclude this thesis and graduate in May of 2009. This blog should serve as a journal till then (and afterwards), and hopefully will attract both attention and dialogue from those who are interested. Below is a copy of my abstract that was sent to Graduate school.