My name is Amad Uddin and I am an aspiring architect. The reason I want to be an architect is that I am amazed by the New York City skyline. My favorite activity as an architect, besides sketching and drawing, is model making. Since being introduced to the 3-D aspect of architectue I like it more, because you get to see a miniatue model of the building before it is built. My goal is to go to a good college with an architectue program and then to work for a firm that allows me to travel to different places. Maybe I'll even start my own firm someday.

The first thing I do when I am working is look at my requirements. Then for ideas I like to take things from previous styles of architecture. For instance, I'll incorporate things from Roman architecture or Gothic architecture or sometimes maybe something completely abstract. Another thing I like to do is try to make my structure fit and match with its suroundings. For example, our class had a project on creating a youth space. Most people created actual structures, while I simply put two tent-like things on the trees and inside them I put different chairs to distinguish it from the rest of the park.

Currently I am working on a new entrance for the MoMA. The requirements are to create an entrance that invites people rather than intimidating them. Here, I will refer back to artist Vito Acconci's ideas about how a structure can make people behave a certain way. My ideas right now are to make either an arch or an awning.