St. John's College Santa Fe Odyssey Bound Newsletter

in this issue >>> Ariel and General Pathways (p. 2-3) Continuation of Interview on p.1 (p. 4-5) Focus on Sustainability(p. 6-7) More Information (p. 8)

Spirit of Place Project Inishturk Island, County Mayo, Ireland Photo Credit: Architect, Travis Price Press Kit

Career Services at St. John’s College, Santa Fe

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Interview with Travis Price, Architect

Upcoming Deadlines Ariel Internships

Friday, 2/19, 5 p.m. in the Career Services Office

General Pathways

Monday, 3/7, 5 p.m. in the Career Services Office

Madison Graduate Fellowships Tuesday, 3/1

Travis Price, Photo Credit: Architect, Travis Price Press Kit

Did your education at St. John’s lead you to your career?

I was already on a career path to being an architect since 8th grade. Also, I had 2 years of university studies in architecture before attending St. John’s in the late ‘60s. However, St. John’s provided the larger historical perspective of mankind’s imagination which introduced me to great architectural history.

What sparked your interest in sustainable architecture?

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February 2016

My real foray into sustainability began when camping with fellow architects and archaeologists at Chaco Canyon in 1973. There, I observed snow being melted by south facing curved stone and adobe pueblos. Subsequently, I read a paper by J.B Jackson on the duality of this architectural sun phenomenon. I traced twenty nine similar prehistoric pueblos and discovered that the sacred mythologies of pueblo shamans guided the architectural sun sensitive forms prior to construction. Subsequently, I created a “passive” solar village as my architectural master’s thesis at the University of New Mexico.

What are some important job/ life skills that you gained from your SJC education? How did they help you in your particular career?

The most important aspect I learned from St John’s was the rigor of asking deeper questions. Furthermore, I learned how to categorize and place one idea partaking of another. This larger vision enabled Continued on pg. 4 1

Congratulations Global Pathways Recipients!

We are pleased to announce the 2016 recipients of the Global Pathways Fellowships!

Marchutz School of Fine Arts, France: Siena Powers (SO) and Morgan Whitehead (SR) Rome Institute of Liberal Arts (RILA), Italy: Kahlieh Bernstein (SO), Victor Breidenbach (SO), Peerawat Chiaranunt (JR) and Nathan Dignazio (SO) Sea Education Association (SEA): Jinxue Chen (SO) and Mary Christman (JR) Sun Yat-sen University International Summer Program, China: Patrick Gentry (SO) Seoul National University, South Korea: Janet Angulo (SO), Korean language program Naganuma School, Japan: Devin Ketch (SO), Japanese language program Film and TV School, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague: Nina Medvinskaya (SR) International Lyric Academy, Italy: Vidya Ravilochan (SR), Opera School for Field Studies, Tanzania: Jiujun Tang (SR), Wildlife Management and Research St. Olaf’s Budapest Semester in Advanced Mathematics: Qi Zhan (SO)

General Pathways Established in 2014, the Pathways Fellowships were created to enable St. John’s students to transition into graduate study or careers that call for special or prerequisite courses. With General Pathways Fellowships students are able to enroll, for example, in teacher education courses for the pursuit of public school teaching, art classes in preparation of a portfolio, or pre-medical or biomedical courses. St. John’s College is committed to supporting students in the pursuit of such endeavors. Applications are available at the Career Services office or on-line through each student’s Agora account. Advice about choosing and applying for a Pathways Fellowship can be obtained from the Career Services staff at 505-984-6066 or SantaFe.CareerServices@sjc.edu.

Eligibility

General Pathways Fellowships, are open to current freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, as well as graduating seniors, on the Santa Fe campus, who are in good academic, disciplinary, and financial standing. Pathways recipients, other than graduating seniors, must be planning to return to either the Santa Fe or the Annapolis campus in the fall immediately following their fellowship experience. Financial need does not affect a student’s eligibility.

Selection

A selection committee comprised of faculty and staff reviews each completed application.

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Restrictions

Students may not undertake a Pathways Fellowship and an Ariel Internship Award during the same summer. Please note that no academic credit can be used towards graduation from St. John’s College through participation in the Pathways Fellowship program.

General Pathways Application Checklist • General Pathways Application (Application must be filled out in Agora and then printed out for submission) • Letter of Interest • Program Description • Letters of Recommendation All materials are due in the Career Services Office Monday, March 7 at 5 p.m.

Ariel Internships

Are you interested in getting your feet wet in a particular field? The Ariel Internship Program might just be for you!

The Ariel Internship Program offers an average of 25 summer stipends each year to encourage Santa Fe students to gain practical experience while exploring possible career fields. Internships have ranged from apprenticing with a custom guitar maker, to training in legal mediation, to teaching students aspiring to be the first in their families to attend college.

Internship stipends are also available to students interested in medicine or biomedical careers. All undergraduates, except January freshmen, are eligible to apply for Ariel stipends. Ariel internships are open to both US and international students.

The college’s Internship Committee considers Ariel requests each February and makes awards of up to $4,000, based on a competitive application process.

Career Services assists students in finding established internships or in developing individual opportunities for career exploration, even if they do not intend to apply for Ariel funding. Ariel application materials are available at the Career Services office or on-line through each student’s Agora account. General information and advice about the Ariel program is available from Barbara Lucero Sand, internship coordinator, at 505-984-6132 or blucerosand@sjc.edu

Ariel Internship Application Checklist For more information stop by Career Services or check out the Resource Library in Agora • Ariel Internship Application (Application must be filled out in Agora and then printed out for submission) • Description of Internship • Letter of Interest • Resume • Budget • Two Letters of Recommendation • Verification that Internship is secured, if applicable All materials are due in the Career Services Office Feb. 19, 2016 by 5 p.m.

2015 Ariel Interns

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Interview with Travis Price, Architect (cont. from p.1) me to create and think outside the box. The Johnnie rigor has been a keen aspect of my creative career as an architect. I now can see when I am leading the future and not necessarily copying the past.

Any advice to students pursuing further studies in the field of architecture or sustainability?

never retires and one always expands one’s horizons. It is unforgivingly consumptive, but what muse isn’t?

How is your coined term, “passive solar” implicated in your architecture? What are some of the impacts of buildings that can self-preserve livable temperature?

early days were more difficult as people had to adjust budgets, government had to adjust codes, but now all of this is almost boringly status quo. The real struggles today are in planning for higher density design where the ecological impacts far exceed the one of suburban or rural home. Urbanization alone is the massive new sustainable frontier.

Remember Sustainable that architecture buildings not only is the mother of What do you weigh as more save immense enimportant: aesthetics or practhe arts as well ergy resources and ticality? Please give us a little as frozen music. lessen pollution, peek into your philosophy of architecture!

Architects are the but in the most poets of building. conservative way of

My design philosophy is An architect must all, it conserves us. built upon 3 lenses: ecology, mynot only master all There is an endthology and technology. Each of our aspects of engineerless punch list of projects is a balance of nature, story ing and practical sustainable rules, telling, and the utmost modern building, but, more and once you have building materials. These elements importantly, crethem, your job is give meaning and conservation to ate “meaning” in to embed them and the 21st century in a truly modern form. Whether it is hope they still obey idiom.

Travis Price architecture architecture, or one the overall inspiraPhoto Credit: Travis Price Press Kit What is your favorite building of its many specialties tional aesthetic. The that you have constructed? such as sustainable design, seeing real joy in a passive solar home is

My own home built in 2001 the whole and integrating it into not the savings; it’s the ability to was a game changer for me. The reality is the joy of architecture. It stay in tune with nature’s yearly three lenses had at last congealed is a profession that is immensely and daily rhythms. This is where into a singular approach where the powered by the past, poetry and the health of humans manifests its Spirit of Place danced into my full pure passion for the future. Jump lost modern separation from nature practice. in if you are ready to ride the light generated by fossil fuel isolation. of creating.

What are advantages of integrating Are there any downsides to bethe environment, ing an architect? within your works?

Have you met any

It takes at least 6 long years difficulties in the of schooling, 3 years of internship, process? and endless long hours at practice.

Being green It requires constant awareness of today is easier than it numerous ideas, politics, people, has ever been. People government, and economics along are genuinely starved with the theoretical. It is time confor natural solutions suming and not one of the highest that are smart. The Travis Price architecture paid professions in the world. One Photo Credit: Travis Price Press Kit

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In regards to Spirit of Place, how do you select a location, weigh the significance of the place, and the impact of the construction on that place?

In the early days of the Spirit of Place Design build expeditions, I sought out people who were deeply ensconced in their landscapes, but most importantly in the wisdom of their ancient stories and myths.

After 21 installations globally, they find me constantly. This is a major movement in architecture now that will eclipse the environmental movement. Currently I am growing the design program at other schools of architecture in the US and globally. The future is about the world’s sustainability of its natural resources, and, most importantly, the poetics of a thousand voices of culture.

How do you keep the construction time as short as 9 days?

How do you get funding for resources?

It’s always daunting, but somehow we work 12 hour days to complete the 9 day build. This is an immense task of passion. Each year I find a site and raise construction funds with the owners of the sites. Funds are found from private individuals to national budgets. All year I go about hat in hand to get it funded outside of my day job as a practitioner.

What was your favorite and least favorite “Spirit of Place” projects and why?

The classic answer is the next one. To paraphrase Picasso, “if it works, it’s obsolete”! There is no evasion here. You could ask Herodotus the same question and get a ten day answer! They were all astonishing experiences on a long quest.

What do students learn from this experience, other than the practicalities of hands on construction?

These focused days working with local people and opening up a dialogue of their great myths is life changing. It is a gratifying experience about realizing that you can design something authentic and extraordinary, and then build it.

There isn’t a year yet where those who went did not see more than they can ever remember, and indeed be embedded with more than they ever thought possible.

What is something you would like to achieve in life (a goal)?

My one passion has always been to not only build, but more so to challenge and perhaps possibly change an assumption about design.

To add a new vision to the vocabulary of Architectural history would make my day.

The Career Services Office Phone (505) 984-6066 Fax (505) 984-6167 Email: santafe.careerservices@sjc.edu The office is located in the basement of Weigle Hall, Room 13 Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Or by appointment Margaret Odell Director Barbara Lucero Sand Assistant Director, Internship Coordinator Elizabeth Reeves Administrative Assistant Yeonsoo Koo Publications Editor Lauren Max Office Assistant

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Focus on Sustainability Are you interested in Sustainability? Check out these organizations to see how you can get involved. Some of the following organizations are eligible for Ariel Internship funding. Visit Career Services for more information.

AMPERSAND SUSTAINABLE LEARNING CENTER Information from the website

“Ampersand is a living demonstration site for permaculture, appropriate technologies, and sustainable practices.”Ampersand’s approach to sustainability is about relationship with resources, starting with the basics: water, food, shelter, and energy; “We are simply gathering, experimenting with, and

Sun Power Cooker Photo Credit: Ampersand Website

demonstrating sustainable solutions for living in harmony with our bioregion.”

Ampersand’s off-grid site seeks to demonstrate sustainable systems such as land restoration, organic gardening, passive solar design, and wise water techniques.

In pursuit of this, Ampersand participants build with natural and salvaged materials, cook with solar ovens, and rely on rain catchment.

Ampersand offers internships May 20-July 15, 2016. Interns live in a community experiencing a rustic lifestyle, and they work on 6

projects such as sustainable food systems, natural building, organic gardening, and land restoration.

Classes are provided in passive solar design, solar cooking and sustainable kitchens, land restoration, high desert gardening, rain harvesting, and greywater systems.

cisco. Bioneers welcomes anyone interested in gaining experience in communications, marketing, public relations, and social media strategy.

Interns must have strong computer, research and writing skills.

For More Information: Website: http://ampersandproject.org/ Phone: (505) 780-0535

For More Information: Website: http://www.bioneers.org/ E-mail: info@bioneers.org Phone: (505) 986-0366

BIONEERS Information from the website

Bioneers – where social and scientific innovators meet the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges with practical and visionary solutions.

Bioneers, an educational nonprofit, strives to highlight breakthrough solutions for people and the planet. Bioneers’ programs cover a variety of issues ranging from educating the public through media production, award-winning radio and book series through the Changing Mindscapes program; bringing education for sustainability materials to schools and colleges through Education for Action; empowering women by providing experiential education and media, thus encouraging them to be bold, congruent, and effective leaders through Every Woman’s Leadership Initiatives; and much more.

Internships are available at the Bioneers office in San Fran-

EARTHSHIP BIOTECTURE Information from the website

Earthships are sustainable buildings built with recycled materials, designed to promote sustainable living. There are six outstanding benefits of the Earthships: thermal/ solar heating and cooling, solar and wind electricity, contained sewage treatment, building with natural and recycled materials, water harvesting, Taos Earthship Photo Credit: Yeonsoo Koo and food production.

Sustainable homes must make use

of indigenous materials, those occurring naturally in the local area.

Earthships are built using materials such as used tires, cans, glass bottles, and earth.

Earthship Biotecture runs an academy as well as internships for those who wish to learn more about the construction of Earthships. During the academy, students gain hands-on experience, take classes related to sustainability, participate in labs, and are given tours of at least 20 different Earthships.

The Earthship Intern Program is a 3-week, hands-on learning experience at the Earthship global headquarters in Taos, New Mexico. Interns learn Earthship design concepts and building techniques with the best Earthship builders in the world.

For More Information: Website: http://earthship.com/ E-mail: reception@earthship.com Phone: (575) 613-4409

Houseboat on the Yarapa River

SPIRIT OF PLACE

INTERNSHIP Information from the website

Spirit of Place is a program that over the last two decades has become one of the most influential environmental and cultural forces in reshaping the built environment while creating the archeology of tomorrow. The program has received numerous design and educational awards over the years and has recently been featured in the Smithsonian, Architectural Record, National Geographic, and Dwell.

In conjunction with The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture & Planning, Mr Price cosponsors and coordinates the Spirit of Place international design build expeditions for students. Students have the opportunity to research, design, and construct a project in a remote landscape, as a team. The awarded program focuses not only on designing and building architecture, but also associates itself with the fields of anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, environment, and the arts.

Internship opportunities with Travis Price are available.

Contact Career Services or Travis Price Architects for additional information.

Doonamoe, County Mayo Ireland

For More Information: Website: www.SpiritofPlace-Design.com E-mail: info@travispricearchitects.com WWOOF-WORLD WIDE OPPORTUNITIES ON ORGANIC FARMS Information from the website WWOOF is a worldwide effort to link visitors with organic farmers, promote an educational exchange, and build a global community conscious of ecological farming practices. WWOOFing is a way to learn practical farming skills and be part of the organic agriculture movement. Visitors, or ‘WWOOFers’, spend about half a day helping out on a host farm, learn about the organic movement and sustainable agriculture, and receive room and board during their visit – with no money exchanged between hosts and WWOOFers.

For More Information: Website: http://www.wwoof.net/ E-mail: Amanda, International Development Coordinator amanda@wwoof.net

Helsinki, Finland

Spirit of Place Projects Photo Credit: Architect, Travis Price Press Kit

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Places You Can Go Internships Study Abroad Fellowships Volunteer Opportunities Graduate Studies Scholarships Summer Classes

Temecula Preparatory School is now hiring 2016 teachers

Temecula Prep will be on campus on March 1 conducting interviews with 2016 graduating seniors who are interested in teaching.

Temecula Prep is a classical learning school, offering instruction for Kindergarten through 12th grade in Temecula, California.

Please schedule a meeting with Career Services for more information or to schedule your interview.

Career Services Calendar of Events Ariel Application Review 2/10 and 2/16, 3-5:00 p.m.

CS Library, Basement of Weigle Hall General Pathways Application Review 03/02, 3-5:00 p.m.

CS Library, Basement of Weigle Hall Job Hunting Skills Workshop Series CS Library, Basement of Weigle Hall 02/17, 03/04, 03/30, 04/08, 04/20, 05/11 3:15-4:30 p.m.

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