Day One:
On the first day of class, instructor Nathan Corser asked his students, ‘Why are you here?’ Student Jim Lutzke quickly piped in, ‘I think we all just really want to build something.’ Jim was right. Architecture school is a diverse education that teaches how to convey ideas in a creative and visual way. But, for the most part school offers limited opportunity to build what we design. We often use popsicle sticks as a scaled substitute to Doug Fir beams in the miniature representations we create of our buildings. When a 2x4 is used as a real 2x4, design becomes real and building becomes tangible.