Montreal

Actions: What You Can Do With the City, installation view at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal ©CCA. Photo Michel Legendre

March 20:
Matt and I drove to Montreal to check out the Actions show at the CCA. SuperNeutral, a project I did with John Snavely and Shirley Shen in 2007, was included in the show as Action #6: Carbon Credits Build Micro-Projects. For more info on the exhibition click here.

Israel

March 1:
left for Israel via JFK, courtesy of Birthright.
for more photos click here

Trip Highlights:
hiking in the Negev; climbing Masada; floating in the Dead Sea, dancing at a Purim party in Tel Aviv; meeting Gilad Shelit's parents at a protest; road-tripping to Eilat; bouldering in Timna; seeing the cliffs at Shefayim; eating ice cream in Jerusalem; and meeting some incredible people.

The trip was awesome; in fact, it was so awesome that the first thing I did when I came home was have coffee with my friend Christie, a Master's student in Middle Eastern relations at Tufts who spent last summer living in Bethlehem. I just felt like I needed to be reminded of the...other realities of life in the Holy Land.

Recap

January 15:
handed in my thesis book --
Arctic-tecture for the Global Commons
[Issued my M.Arch degree from MIT in February]

shortly after:
-GAG: Green Architecture Guide published in
Volume 18: After Zero
-Visited my dad in South Florida and my mom in Milwaukee
-Drove home to Boston from Wisconsin via Detroit
-Went to Archis RSVP event on the housing crisis in Warren, MI