36 NORTHERN NEVADA ARCHITECTURE .22 | 2022 | aiann.org I had to know what I was talking about. Though I am not a licensed architect, every day I learn something new and discover new technologies, alternative materials or methods, and even explore different perspectives because we have so many creative brains in the room at one time. How does AIANN’s support help you to educate the architects of tomorrow? AIANN helps me educate our future architects because so much of my job is to inspire these students. A part of that inspiration is engaging the students in the profession of architecture early. Thanks to the AIANN, we can do this with clubs such as AIAS (which we’re hoping to begin again this year), events like Canstruction and even just by seeing award-winning work on your website that the students can identify as having seen around town or because the architect was our guest speaker. All of these things help students visualize their futures and potential in architecture. Deysi’s educational path started in Lima, Peru. She transferred to TMCC and received an associate degree in architecture. Afterward, she transferred to the School of Architecture and Design in San Diego. While there, she received a Bachelor of Architecture, and two years later, she received a Master in Science – Sustainability in Design at Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. Tell us about yourself. My name is Deysi Montes; I am the lead faculty in architecture school here at TMCC. I am a creative designer, passionate professor, and advocate for education. I was born and raised in Peru and moved to the U.S. to pursue my education more than a decade ago. I have lived in Reno, San Diego, and Austin. So far, architecture has been an incredible experience that I get to enjoy every day. Why did you go into the architectural field? I basically fell into architecture school. After initially going to college for a few years for foreign languages, I went to a conference spoken only in Portuguese about fractals and architecture. Once there at the conference, I fell in love the nature’s geometrical shapes, lines, planes, and polyhedrons and was intrigued by Euclidean geometry. After that conference, I started researching these concepts and how they are represented in the built environment. I knew then that I had to change majors, so I did. What makes the architectural program at TMCC stand out? One of the things that make our program stand out is the accessibility and affordability. Architecture schools can and should be started at a community college that is affordable and with a transferable program. TMCC offers an opportunity to the community where students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds first have access to quality education; and second, they can quickly transfer to third year to pursue a five-year bachelor’s degree Deysi Montes-Castillo Architectural Designer
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