Throughout the six years I spent in architecture school in Illinois and Arkansas, my interests included many different artistic genres and mediums, studying automotive technology as well as building technologies. This as always been the case. During my last semester in architecture school (spring 2006) I devoted a full 6 credit-hour semester to independently researching Carbon Fiber Composites. To my knowledge, this was an unprecedented reality. In addition to learning to work with the material (e.g. "The Carbon Composite Trade") itself, I produced this paper, which goes into great detail:
Simultaneously, I also produced this paper, which analyzed the history of Gothic Architecture. It has very little if anything to do with the study of carbon fiber composites, with one exception. The Gothic was marked as a time when tensile properties of building materials began to receive serious consideration. Prior to the Gothic, Architectural design was primarily an exercise of compressive force expertise.
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