The semester has ended and the Summer has begun with the usual crashing of administrative deadlines, obscure forms and ceaseless requirements to be met. Back in April I sent my admissions decision to the various schools and I have decided to attend Yale School of Architecture in New Haven. The incoming class of M.Arch students appears to be quite diverse, as my friends from the Columbia Summer program have diffused throughout the country, myself being the only one to attend Yale. At first I was entirely cautious about not attending the GSAPP but after a month I still feel devoted to my decision. Among its numerous strengths, the Yale SOA remains committed to building in architecture which is a central concern for me. It’s amazing to think that within a year I will be on a team designing and constructing a project.
My scholarship on the Marx Engels Forum has reached a certain consistency and I finally turned it into all the necessary departments this past week. I will be updating material semiotic with a new page including the text. The project would never have succeeded without the support of Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb, Barbara Hoidn and Wilfried Wang. Without their support over the past year there would be no ethnography nor any framework in which to situated the narrative I constructed. I’m excited to see what the future will produce in Urban Studies and I hope there continues to be a healthy injection of Anthropology in the realms of Architecture and Urbanism. As to the title of this post—I clearly watch too many episodes of the X-Files.
