Design, Anarchism, Environmentalism and My Brain

I'm creating this blog as a place to catalog my crazy journey through Architecture school at Portland State University. I am beginning the second year in PSU's undergraduate program and have two more to go after this year. I come to architecture with a background in environmental and social justice activism, an anarchist philosophy of social order, and a healthy distrust of the status quo.

So how does one go about creating structures that truly meet the needs of people, that address the current and oncoming social and environmental cataclysms, that are beautiful and meaningful and ultimately worth building? I have no idea, but I'd like to find out, and plan to spend the next five years learning to answer those questions.

In the short term i have massive deadlines for studio, and will try and post some of my work and reasoning here for perusal, critique and shit talking.