2020 | Book | Unpublished | Author

In the advent of the COVID-19 epidemic, Jola Idowu illustrates the anxieties and pressures of a new architecture student by cataloguing her journey of making a studio project for a YMCA in DUMBO, NYC. Inspired by the isolation and personal reflection forced on her and her classmates by the pandemic, Jola Idowu investigates the nuances and actions of the creative process. Idowu adapts the format of a children’s book to paint a simple but complex narrative that speaks to the emotional and physical labor of not only architects, but all creatives. She tracks her use of software, precedents, and conversations with other classmates in order to trace how exactly an architectural project comes to be. By recording her inspirations, reflections, and wayward thoughts, Idowu writes a story on the mundane, and sometimes chaotic, work of making something worthwhile.