Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Architecture for Humanity













I was feeling restless after cleaning out my office, so I wanted to get started with doing some work for Architecture for Humanity right away. The AFHny website advice that prospect volunteer should attend their next monthly gathering on December 13th to see what projects are available, a look and see of sort. I certainly can't wait that long! So I decided to contact their director to see if they have anything available right away. Here's my email to her:

Dear Cynthia,
I have heard about Architecture for Humanity and the projects your chapter had done on several occasion and had always been interested in participating.
A recent round of layoff had given me quite a bit of free time and I thought that this would be a great opportunity to get involved and contribute what I can. I have gone through the website and saw that the next meeting is on December the 9th, not wanting to wait I thought to contact you directly to see if there are any projects that would require help immediately.
I am a NY state licensed architect and with 12 years of experiences, having worked on a pretty wide variety of project type from institution, education to retail interior. I have also served as a project manager for the past four years and have had a good amount of management and administration experiences.
I saw the 119th street Gatehouse posting and the call for a licensed architect to study the ADA accessibility issue, I will contact Matt directly regarding this project. In the mean time please do not hesitate to let me know if you can think of anything else I can be of help with.

-Hsiang Lin
917.686.0908

If they don't have anything, I'll call NY care next. What does guy have to do to give away free services???

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