Did I make the right move moving to the United States? I was born and raised in France. What feels like a yes is that I’m getting something 100 percent out of Pratt. The thing that keeps me going are my comics—I’ve been doing comics for a while, and I started the Pwatt series in 2015, part of a larger set of Dill Comics. I feel like what I’m doing with my comics is advancing, because in Crit Viz, you can kind of do whatever you’re going for—my goal is to publish a book, and I’m doing that for my thesis.
Calyn Pickens Rich BFA Critical and Visual Studies ’20
How do I bring humanity, humanism into architecture? For my thesis, I made a market for people in a very poor village—an old but important city on the Silk Road. I was trying to go back into the history, try to dig more into humanity, how architecture can affect people, from inside. It’s more about material and how people feel. For this, I only used bricks, because the local people use bricks, it’s vernacular.
Long Long BArch ’19
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