I know we have Design and Environmental Analysis major but really know few about the major or the people there. Also, I’m wondering what’s the difference between DEA or Architecture major. While we’re doing the interior design, we mostly care about how it looks and how it functions. We really don’t pay a lot attention to the environmental interaction or sustainable design.

Small talk with Noah last Wednesday gave me a general picture about what he cares about when he is doing the design. Obviously, beyond the functional purpose and how the architecture looks, he cares more about the interaction of the architecture with the public environment and the idea of green, sustainable architecture is shown everywhere in his design. Also, one of the students brought up the idea of disability facilities like ramps which I think is really great. I think it’s worth considering why our community has less such facilities. It’s obvious that people with disability are relatively few; however, it sounds a right thing to build more disability facilities if possible. I know I’m talking from a social perspective, not considering the real condition of the buildings, but I think it’s also one of the problems in environmental analysis. Moreover, I think Cornell is doing pretty well in the gluten free station in dining which shows that Cornell is a large community trying to satisfy everyone’s needs, which not manly schools seem to consider,