Andrew Peterson - 1999
April 13, 2008
Andrew Peterson
1999 Graduate of Holdrege High School
I was born and raised on the family farm in Funk, Nebraska. Upon graduating from Holdrege High School in 1999, I had not taken a single drafting class but rather loaded up on period after period of art. It was not until college that I used the computer to compose, design, or even convey my thoughts and decided to study architecture. I got my Bachelor of Science-Design from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003 and my Master of Architecture from UNL in 2005. While in graduate school, I was employed at a five-man, architectural firm whose projects were done entirely in hand-drafting. I am currently working as an architectural intern in the education segment at H+L Architecture in Denver, CO. I first interned at H+L the summer between my first and second years of graduate school and accepted a full-time position two years ago last June. It is my hope to begin testing for licensure within the next year.
My recent professional endeavors deal primarily with three-dimensionally modeled projects. I am by no means a studio artist. My firm's--and the architectural industry as a whole's--pressing goal is to begin to understand how to generate models from which we could produce construction documentation. We are hoping to increase productivity, enhance consultant coordination efforts, and raise office-wide awareness of the changing architectural trends. The office and I have now been implementing three-dimensional modeling on projects for almost two years. Throughout the implementation process, we have been forced to consider how these new methodologies will affect the firm technologically, contractually, and culturally. With each project we get one step closer to our ultimate goal—Building Information Modeling.
