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)

Career Services at St. John’s College, Santa Fe February 2016

Interview with Travis Price, ArchitectALERT!Upcoming Deadlines

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

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

Madison Graduate FellowshipsTuesday, 3/1

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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 univer-sity 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?

My real foray into sustain-ability 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 phenome-non. I traced twenty nine similar prehistoric pueblos and discovered that the sacred mythologies of pueblo shamans guided the archi-tectural 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 rig-or of asking deeper questions. Fur-thermore, I learned how to catego-rize and place one idea partaking of another. This larger vision enabled

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

Spirit of Place Project

Inishturk Is-land, County Mayo, Ireland

Photo Credit: Architect, Travis Price Press Kit

Welcome back! Photo Credit: Lauren Max

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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 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.

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 sup-porting students in the pursuit of such endeavors. Applications are available at the Career Services office or on-line through each student’s Agora ac-count. Advice about choosing and applying for a Pathways Fellowship can be obtained from the Career Services staff at 505-984-6066 or SantaFe.Career-Services@sjc.edu.

Eligibility General Pathways Fellowships, are open to current freshmen, soph-omores, and juniors, as well as graduating seniors, on the Santa Fe campus, who are in good academic, disciplinary, and financial standing. Pathways re-cipients, 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.

General PathwaysRestrictions Students may not under-take 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 Path-ways Fellowship program.

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Ariel Internships

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.

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 expe-rience 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 avail-able at the Career Services office or on-line through each student’s Agora account. General information and advice about the Ariel program is avail-able from Barbara Lucero Sand, internship coordinator, at 505-984-6132 or blucerosand@sjc.edu

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 nec-essarily copying the past.

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

Remember that architecture is the mother of the arts as well as frozen music. Architects are the poets of building. An architect must not only master all aspects of engineer-ing and practical building, but, more importantly, cre-ate “meaning” in form. Whether it is architecture, or one of its many specialties such as sustainable design, seeing the whole and integrating it into reality is the joy of architecture. It is a profession that is immensely powered by the past, poetry and pure passion for the future. Jump in if you are ready to ride the light of creating.

Are there any downsides to be-ing an architect?

It takes at least 6 long years of schooling, 3 years of internship, and endless long hours at practice. It requires constant awareness of numerous ideas, politics, people, government, and economics along with the theoretical. It is time con-suming and not one of the highest paid professions in the world. One

never retires and one always ex-pands one’s horizons. It is unforgiv-ingly consumptive, but what muse isn’t?

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

Sustainable buildings not only save immense en-ergy resources and lessen pollution, but in the most conservative way of all, it conserves us. There is an end-less punch list of sustainable rules, and once you have them, your job is to embed them and hope they still obey the overall inspira-

tional aesthetic. The real joy in a passive solar home is not the savings; it’s the ability to stay in tune with nature’s yearly and daily rhythms. This is where the health of humans manifests its lost modern separation from nature generated by fossil fuel isolation.

What are advantag-es of integrating the environment, within your works? Have you met any difficulties in the process?

Being green today is easier than it has ever been. People are genuinely starved for natural solutions that are smart. The

early days were more difficult as people had to adjust budgets, gov-ernment 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 fron-tier.

What do you weigh as more important: aesthetics or prac-ticality? Please give us a little peek into your philosophy of architecture!

My design philosophy is built upon 3 lenses: ecology, my-thology and technology. Each of our projects is a balance of nature, story telling, and the utmost modern building materials. These elements give meaning and conservation to the 21st century in a truly modern idiom.

What is your favorite building that you have constructed?

My own home built in 2001 was a game changer for me. The three lenses had at last congealed into a singular approach where the Spirit of Place danced into my full practice.

Travis Price architecture Photo Credit: Travis Price Press Kit

Travis Price architecture Photo Credit: Travis Price Press Kit

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The Career Services Office

Phone (505) 984-6066Fax (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 OdellDirector

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Internship Coordinator

Elizabeth ReevesAdministrative Assistant

Yeonsoo KooPublications Editor

Lauren MaxOffice Assistant

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 Spir-it 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 grow-ing 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 construc-tion 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 construc-tion 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.

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St. John’s College and the Career Services office assume no liability for acts or omissions by third parties or for material supplied by them. The St. John’s College Career Services office is not responsible for anything that happens at a given job site. The presence of an employment listing in Odyssey Bound does not guarantee any given employer’s compliance with legal behavior. If a student or individual experiences discrimina-tion or sexual harassment on the job or in a job interview, he or she is encouraged to call the Department of Fair Employment in the state in which the violation occurred. Career Services makes every effort to publish the most current information, but unforeseen publishing problems may render some events obsolete. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause the reader.

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 Herodo-tus the same question and get a ten day answer! They were all aston-ishing experiences on a long quest.

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

These focused days work-ing 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 vocabu-lary of Architectural history would make my day.

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Focus on SustainabilityAre 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 CENTERInformation from the website “Ampersand is a living demonstration site for permacul-ture, appropriate technologies, and sustainable practices.”Ampersand’s approach to sustainability is about relationship with resources, start-ing with the basics: water, food, shelter, and energy; “We are simply gathering, experimenting with, and

demonstrating sustainable solutions for living in harmony with our biore-gion.” 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 intern-ships May 20-July 15, 2016. Interns live in a community experiencing a rustic lifestyle, and they work on

projects such as sustainable food systems, natural building, organic gardening, and land restoration. Classes are provided in passive solar design, solar cooking and sus-tainable kitchens, land restoration, high desert gardening, rain harvest-ing, and greywater systems.

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

BIONEERSInformation 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 break-through 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 Chang-ing Mindscapes program; bringing education for sustainability materi-als to schools and colleges through Education for Action; empowering women by providing experiential education and media, thus encour-aging 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-

Sun Power CookerPhoto Credit: Ampersand Website

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://www.bioneers.org/E-mail: info@bioneers.orgPhone: (505) 986-0366

EARTHSHIP BIOTECTUREInformation from the website Earthships are sustainable buildings built with recycled materi-als, designed to promote sustainable living. There are six outstanding benefits of the Earthships: thermal/solar heating and cool-ing, solar and wind electricity, contained sewage treatment, building with nat-ural and recycled materials, water harvesting, and food production. Sustainable homes must make use

Taos EarthshipPhoto Credit: Yeonsoo Koo

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of indigenous materials, those oc-curring naturally in the local area. Earthships are built using materi-als 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 Earth-ships. 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 Earth-ships. The Earthship Intern Program is a 3-week, hands-on learning experience at the Earth-ship global headquarters in Taos, New Mexico. Interns learn Earth-ship design concepts and building techniques with the best Earthship builders in the world.

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

For More Information: Website: www.SpiritofPlace-Design.com E-mail: info@travispricearchitects.com

WWOOF-WORLD WIDE OPPORTUNITIES ON ORGANIC FARMSInformation from the websiteWWOOF 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 ‘WWOOF-ers’, 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

SPIRIT OF PLACE INTERNSHIPInformation 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 to-morrow. The program has received numerous design and educational awards over the years and has re-cently been featured in the Smithso-nian, Architectural Record, National Geographic, and Dwell. In conjunction with The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture & Planning, Mr Price cosponsors and coordi-nates the Spirit of Place interna-tional 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 architec-ture, but also associates itself with the fields of anthropology, archaeol-ogy, philosophy, environment, and the arts. Internship opportunities with Travis Price are available. Contact Career Services or Travis Price Architects for additional information.

Spirit of Place ProjectsPhoto Credit: Architect, Travis Price Press Kit

Houseboat on the Yarapa River Helsinki, FinlandDoonamoe, County Mayo Ireland

Career ServicesCalendar of Events

Ariel Application Review2/10 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

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3:15-4:30 p.m.

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Temecula Preparatory School is now hiring 2016 teachers

Temecula Prep will be on campus on March 1 conducting inter-views 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 infor-mation or to schedule your interview.

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