Hi, I’m Eric Schultz and I’m a G2 in the M. Arch program. I’m originally from Youngstown, OH, but Columbus has been my home for the past decade. Although a graduate student, I’m still quite new to architecture. I completed my BS in applied mathematics from OSU in 2013, and spent the early part of my career in various areas of biomedical research. Through the past year and half, I’ve been constantly finding new avenues of exploration in the field. My current interests focus on the present and future challenges facing urbanization.
This is why I’m so excited to study abroad in London. Being a truly international city for over two millennia, the built environment of the metropolis has been influenced by a myriad of both internal and external forces encompassing political, socio-cultural, and economic movements.
As digital infrastructures continue to evolve in cities, data becomes an exponentially more plentiful resource. As architects, we are ultimately responsible for illustrating novel complex relationships in these spaces. For my individual project, I look to couple publicly available datasets within overlapping urban adjacencies to 1) clearly identify problems facing the continual growth of a global city, and 2) begin to visualize their solutions in urban design.
Eric Schultz