BYOP& a Movie

     GASP, Graduate Architecture Student Program, and AIAS, American Institute of Architecture Students, joined together to put on an event called "Pumpkin and a Movie".  All the members of these two groups got together to relax for a few hours and carved some pumpkins while watching a A Nightmare Before Christmas.  It was a great turn out with not only members involved but also friends, family, and faculty.  Below is just one of the pumpkins carved, what an adorable elephant?

AIAS GENERAL MEETING!

We just had our first general meeting for AIAS Clemson a few weeks ago! It was a great turn out and had so many interested young architecture majors that wanted to learn more about what to expect in the years to come.  AIAS Clemson was lucky enough to recruit a couple alumni’s to come and shed light about their experience working in this industry.  Our guest speakers were Luke McCary, AIA SC President, Hillary Andren-Wise, AIA Greenville President, Brad Benjamin, and Justin Abrams.  Together they told many funny stories, enlightening reasoning, and advice to help us as we continue on our own personal journey through acquiring our degree.  Not only did we have a few quest speakers but we also had a junior, Carsen Landreth, in high school come and sit through the meeting.   Carsen is enrolled in civil engineering and architecture courses at the Anderson Career and Technology Center.  She showed great interest in AIAS Clemson and continuing her path through either engineering or architecture at Clemson once she graduates! 

Grassroots 2013

AIAS to Grassroots 2013-

We arrived in D.C. on a Wednesday night and decided to rent bikes (which we THOUGHT were super cheap at the time) to ride around the mall area. The next day was the beginning of the conference and we started every morning off with a cup of coffee and a beat-box.  Juicy-J (Joel Pominville) and N-Zilla the Killa (Nick Tafel) are notorious for their raps at AIAS roll calls and it was AWESOME!  After we got the crowd pumped up, we spent most of the day listening to speakers (some of them counted towards IDP credit) or participating in sessions with all the students to share ideas about everyone’s chapter.  There was a barbeque at the AIA national headquarters on Friday night and a tour of the memorials after that. Saturday night was the big party on the ferry and everyone got dressed up and ate hors d’oeurves like sophisticated architects.  However Matt Barstow did break it down on the dance floor, which was pretty crazy. Overall, the trip was a huge success.  We learned a lot, met some incredible people from all over the country, and had an absolute blast!

Check out this video from of us rapping Grassroots: 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0-GEr3mztJweGRrVU9rVVRUVDg/edit?pli=1

Freedom by Charrette!

Freedom by Design is hosting a charrette in Lee 1-250 tonight at 5:30!

The charrette will be centered on the current Freedom by Design project for two clients in Anderson, SC. It is a wheelchair ramp at the back of the clients house. A wheelchair ramp at a scale larger than Clemson FBD has ever seen before. This ramp will compensate for a 60" drop from door to grade, resulting in more than 60 feet of ramp to be designed!

This means we need you! We need you to help us solve this design problem while still using those crafty architecture minds we are in the process of developing.

Come out to see what FBD is all about and help us design a ramp that will put national attention on our Chapter and FBD as a whole!!

Best,
Joel the Webmeister.

P.S. There will be pizza.