Great form through architecture i a goal we strive to reach. In the educational world, a professor assigns a topic or project. Design a velodrome, a house, a museum. These are formal ideas with formal identities that allow for shaping, pushing and pulling and, our hope, some innovation. The finished design is theoretically meant to be functional and real.

The Stuart Dybek Special Collections Public Library Annex is situated in a barrio in Pilsen, Chicago. I raised the whole library to the second floor, leaving the ground floor as public space for the community. The ground level provides a relief in the urban density.

I believed I had failed. I struggled with using my tools eloquently, and expressing myself convincingly and completely.

Chicago, New York, Boston, Denver, Rome. These are all cities we may visit as part of the architecture curriculum at Iowa State.

The 2011 Design/Build Studio included 13 undergraduate architects, 2 graduate architects, 6 landscape architects, and 1 interior designer. Under the careful supervision and guidance of Bruce Bassler, this team worked to design and deliver a complete sleeping cabin to the Scenic Park campground in South Sioux City, Nebraska.