Hello,
my name is Blake Bordner. I am a senior in landscape architecture here at OSU, born and raised here in Columbus. My first job in high school was landscaping and I stuck with it for about 5 years until I decided I wanted to be apart of the landscaping community professionally. So began my career here at OSU and, to this day, I have not regretted it one bit. With arch/larch, there are endless opportunities to be sought out and the ambiguity as to what you can do with this knowledge is one of the factors that makes the profession very unique and exciting.
I have had some travel outside of the US in Cabo San Lucas, Portugal, Switzerland, and Italy. As you can imagine, they all varied in different ways in regards to the architecture and, in most cases, you could see the problems engineers tried to solve to allow these places to adhere to the earths natural form and combat the forces of nature. I am excited for the London trip because I know it is a culturally rich landmark and mixes contemporary or growing movements with historical architecture. You can physically see a piece of architecture that’s hundreds of years old, turn around, and look at something that was built 5 years ago and it’s a seamless transition, almost sublime. So I know, for me, that is one of the things I am most excited to see. But also, it is nice to immerse yourself in new cultures and catch the atmosphere changing, even in the mundane activities you perform normally here in the US feel exciting when you experience it differently.
A big leaf.