Semester Recap

It's pretty crazy that this year is already coming to an end. Last week we presented our semester projects. It was nice to finally done with the project and realize how much I had learned over the past few months. I´m super glad we did a semester project because it gave me the opportunity to research landscape architecture and get some exposure. I enjoyed the challenge of building the model. I learned that putting my ideas into a real model was really beneficial and helped stimulate even more ideas. I also really liked looking up other landscape architect projects and seeing a bunch of designs. They were all so cool and made me excited that one day I could create projects like those.

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