Introduction

Nature’s first green is gold, 

Her hardest hue to hold. 

Her early leaf’s a flower; 

But only so an hour. 

Then leaf subsides to leaf. 

So Eden sank to grief, 

So dawn goes down to day. 

Nothing gold can stay. 

Robert Frost

As a citizen of multiple countries and an avid traveler, my passion lies in the unknown, where I try to venture. My biggest fear is to wake up one day and realized that I am bored.

I am a senior undergraduate architecture student that has completed a graduate architecture studio, and is also interested in material sciences. I am now in the final semester of my studies at UC Berkeley. Back when I was in Russia, I attended an evening Art School (after regular school) for 4 years. There, I learned to paint with acrylics, watercolors, gouache, learned to draw with plain and coloured pencils, and was educated about art and architecture history. During my years at UC Berkeley, I also took some art classes with the Berkeley Art Studio in oil painting and coloured pencil drawing. I am quite passionate about art and its history, which I always try and incorporate into my work in architecture.