I catch a Megabus to New York in a few hours then make my way to JFK for a flight to Dhaka by way of Dubai. The week started with snow delays, had a last minute trip to DC yesterday to pick up my passport and visa, a mid term exam yesterday and a mid... Continue Reading →
The following is a proposal for a road trip to Beaver Run, PA on March 15th to go visit Fallingwater: The first image is from the foundations website, and the second is from an article about the story behind the gift shop built on the grounds. I will leave the general back story of the... Continue Reading →
Finally made it up to the George Nakashima Foundation and Workshop this afternoon for their open house (Saturdays 1-4:30pm). They allow photography on the grounds, but not inside the buildings. Here are some photographs of the buildings and some sketches of the buildings and furniture:
There is something beautiful and labyrinthine about medieval cities, be they Gothic and Christian or Muslim Medinas. These two examples should not be mistaken for one another, as they both represent unique ways in which culture and religion embed themselves into building patterns and neighborhood forms, I once compared the city of my father's childhood... Continue Reading →
For the next week these posts may simply resemble a vacation slide show as I battle against the ULI Competition. Up today is a snowy visit to Renzo Piano's Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, from February 2011.
Another train post, this time about the California Zephyr, running from Chicago to Denver to San Francisco. The images below are specifically from my trip through the Rocky Mountains, with February snow gracing the cliffs. The train leaves Denver at 8 am and has a good 8 hours of front row views through the Rocky... Continue Reading →
These posts may become reliant on photographs and other peoples words (properly cited) for the next few days as I juggle a few deadlines. The same day I visited Steven Holl's Chapel of St. Ignatius (see earlier post) I headed down to the train station to grab Amtrak's Empire Builder headed to Chicago. I had crossed... Continue Reading →
A belated post for yesterday, January 17th, my mother's birthday, and an opportunity to show photographs from a trip to Seattle and a stop at the Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University. It was designed by Steven Holl Architects and built from 1994-1997. It is an amazing space, curving ceilings and hidden sources of... Continue Reading →
This may wrap up my discussion on the M'Zab valley for the near future, but I wanted to talk about a visit I was able to take to a traditional courtyard house in El Atteuf (mentioned two days ago). To supplement my photos, I have come across a writing from the 1970s by David Etherton... Continue Reading →
Continuing from yesterday's description of Ghardaia, I want to briefly describe the way many families have been able to equitably divide water within the oasis. Rain events come very infrequently, and when they do it often results in flooding. The solution was a dam, of sorts, collecting the flooded river and dividing the deluge into... Continue Reading →
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