tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33836537481760491012024-03-21T08:22:21.849-04:00architectstasyJessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-36710144979761697902013-05-15T15:10:00.001-04:002013-05-15T15:10:20.999-04:00Meet Henry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Henry is a rescue dog, a proud ambassador for <a href="http://www.projectbluecollar.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Project Blue Collar</a>, and my most constant companion. <br />
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Read more here: http://architectstasy.tumblr.com/tagged/henryJessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-48013522594135232312013-03-04T07:20:00.001-05:002013-03-04T07:20:44.269-05:00I have to admit: I am firmly situated in the school of thought that, in religious architecture, more decoration is better. Not so much for the contemplation of divinity or the exaltation of spirit, but because it's so incredibly beautiful. I recently had the great pleasure of visiting the Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple, an active (<i>active</i>) Hindu temple in Chicago's West Suburbs. Photography on the interior was prohibited, but here is a glimpse of the richness of both the space and the faith. The only thing better would have been if I'd been able to capture some of the constant stream of devotees entering and exiting; the traditional dress of nearly every worshipper easily put the building in their shadows.<br />
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<br />Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-49426516181714069722013-01-13T23:56:00.001-05:002013-01-14T00:02:35.496-05:00Slightly-Less-New Year NewsThe popular mode of journalism seems to be to use facts to plunge readers into a sort of gleeful self-flagellation. I have a different proposal: what if we take facts as cautionary tales, or even better, optimistic proposals for future action? For example, what if each reader picked up one or two new attitudes - more considered BOGO spending, less insistence on non-local (therefore always in season - therefore not needing to be grown for aesthetics) foods? What if we took the data presented, not as a reason to castigate those that have gone before us, but as a guidepost to the road ahead? <div>
“<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/10/half-world-food-waste?intcmp=122">Up to 50% of all food produced is thrown away</a>” <i>The Guardian</i><br /><br />McDonald’s is fun to hate. Encouraging children to read is fun to get behind. Is that why this announcement feels so weird?<br />“<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-uks-biggest-distributor-of-childrens-books-is-about-to-be-mcdonalds/267083/">The U.K.’s biggest distributor of children’s books is about to be…McDonald’s</a>” <i>The Atlantic</i><br /><br />Detroit, in all of its beautiful fractured multiplicity, has produced a magnum opus. With good data, input from those on the frontlines, and committed funding for the next five years, these vital and valuable projects finally have a fighting chance instead of being relegated to just a crying shame.<br />“<a href="http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2013/01/130109-Detroit-Initiative-Unveils-Recommendations-for-Citys-Renewal.asp?WT.mc_id=rss_archrecord">Detroit initiative unveils recommendations for city’s renewal</a>” <i>Architectural Record</i><br /><br />From devastation to devastatingly romantic: I may not be a fan of the Big Apple, but it sure does do Valentine’s Day right.<br />“<a href="http://inhabitat.com/times-squares-heart-shaped-valentines-day-boardwalk-will-be-made-from-hurricane-sandy-debris/">Time Square’s heart-shaped Valentine’s Day boardwalk will be made from Hurricane Sandy debris</a>” <i>Inhabitat</i><br /><br />I’m having a visceral reaction to this particular piece by my all-time favorite food writer. I’d like to think it’s more than that it’s essentially a love letter to potatoes, my favorite food.<br />“<a href="http://www.vanillagarlic.com/2013/01/culinary-ennui-garlic-and-parmesan-bread.html">Culinary ennui: Garlic and parmesan bread</a>” <i>Vanilla Garlic</i><br /><br />The leap from concept to creation is rarely as elegantly executed as this exhibition. This elevates the already-exquisite tradition of Japanese textile exhibits.<br />“<a href="http://www.designdaily.us/2013/01/akio-hiratas-exhibition-of-hats-by-nendo.html">Akio Hirata’s exhibition of hats by Nendo</a>” <i>Design Daily </i><br /><br />Forget the product: I lust after the tome-saturated space.<br />“<a href="http://www.architonic.com/pmsht/lema-selecta/1192745">Selecta by LEMA</a>” <i>Architonic</i></div>
Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-87187347460604085942013-01-02T22:57:00.000-05:002013-01-02T23:15:58.775-05:00The New Year So Far<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">There's really no bad time to find new ways to call architecture promiscuous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe we could seek out more market drivers to convert the prison experience into more of an opportunity and not just a holding cell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<a data-mce-href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/after-10-years-of-delay-the-fcc-begins-to-address-unjust-phone-rates-for-prisoners/266772/" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/after-10-years-of-delay-the-fcc-begins-to-address-unjust-phone-rates-for-prisoners/266772/" target="_blank">After 10 years of delay, the FCC begins to address unjust phone rates for prisoners</a>" <em>The Atlantic</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I like Avis and think this is a positive move, but I hope they keep the name Zipcar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<a data-mce-href="http://inhabitat.com/avis-to-buy-car-sharing-service-zipcar-in-deal-worth-nearly-500-million/" href="http://inhabitat.com/avis-to-buy-car-sharing-service-zipcar-in-deal-worth-nearly-500-million/" target="_blank">Avis to buy car-sharing service Zipcar in deal worth nearly $500 million</a>" <em> Inhabitat</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Good things come out of Michigan (and we desperately need the money coming back into it)!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<a data-mce-href="http://annarbor.com/business-review/swim-school-idea-leads-to-goldfish-growth/" href="http://annarbor.com/business-review/swim-school-idea-leads-to-goldfish-growth/" target="_blank">Swim school idea leads to Goldfish growth</a>" <em>AnnArbor.com</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A requiem and implicit plea for the never-out-of-date intelligent curation of ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<a data-mce-href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/a-writer-looks-back-at-the-editor-who-shaped-his-books/266679/" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/a-writer-looks-back-at-the-editor-who-shaped-his-books/266679/" target="_blank">A writer looks back at the editor who shaped his books</a>" <em>The Atlantic</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am going through the job application process right now, and I have no idea why it's so difficult not to sound like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<a data-mce-href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-worlds-first-and-only-completely-honest-resume-of-a-graphic-designer" href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-worlds-first-and-only-completely-honest-resume-of-a-graphic-designer" target="_blank">The world's first and only completely honest resume of a graphic designer</a>" <em>McSweeney's</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's not like I need an excuse to buy wine, but when storing them is as delicious as tasting them...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<a data-mce-href="http://www.wearedesignbureau.com/projects/toast-the-new-year-with-8-designer-wine-racks/" href="http://www.wearedesignbureau.com/projects/toast-the-new-year-with-8-designer-wine-racks/" target="_blank">Toast the new year with 8 designer wine racks</a>" <em>Design Bureau</em></span><br />
<br />Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-36413011555990748842011-09-29T14:29:00.000-04:002011-09-29T14:29:01.624-04:00Andhra Pradesh and Special Economic Zones: economy and territory(<a href="http://dl2af5jf3e.search.serialssolutions.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Special+Economic+Zones+as+New+Forms+of+Corporate+Land+Grab%3A+Experiences+from+India&rft.jtitle=Development&rft.au=Ramachandraiah%2C+Chigurupati&rft.au=Srinivasan%2C+Ramasamy&rft.date=2011-03-31&rft.issn=1011-6370&rft.volume=54&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=59&rft.epage=63&rft_id=info:doi/10.1057%2Fdev.2010.99&rft.externalDBID=DVMT&rft.externalDocID=2278381631">1</a>) Territory<br />
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<li>Capital city: Hyderabad</li>
<li>Polulation: 76,000,000 </li>
<li>Repatriated workers: tens of thousands every year</li>
<li>Between 1969 and 2002, about 42,24,000 acres (1.71 million ha) of government lands have been given to 29,23,000 landless poor; but the government has recalled at least 20,000 ha of this land, and possibly more</li>
<li>The idea is that the land not be cultivatable farmland, this is not to exceed 10% of the land assigned to SEZs; but this is not enforced</li>
<li>The architectural style of HITEC City and of the large office buildings
built by IT firms, the vast landscaped campuses, and the remarkable
quality of the roads mark a striking contrast with the surrounding
environment, which is generally dry and rocky and poorly equipped in
basic infrastructure. In this way, HITEC City is actively contributing
to the formation of highly differentiated “mixed spaces” midway between
urban centres and rural spaces that characterise peri-urbanisation </li>
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<li>The 2005 SEZ act does not allow any public hearing or consultative process on the issue of land acquisitions </li>
<li>Top-down decision-making practices have effectively excluded many local
actors from the policy process, and the creation of special purpose
enclaves in suburban areas has weakened prospects for the development of
governance institutions at the metropolitan scale </li>
<li>Private sector actors have emerged on the scene, for instance as
builders and managers of infrastructure complexes, mainly through
public–private partnerships. </li>
<li>In contrast, locally elected
representatives have been largely excluded from the policy process, as
have civil society groups, learning about major decisions only after the
fact </li>
<li>The act of 2005 deregulated many aspects of production and trade and was intended to facilitate private investment, including foreign direct investment</li>
<li>Economic reforms and political change are redefining relations between
the federal government and the states, and have effectively contributed
to a form of political decentralisation. From the point of view of the
states, one of the trade-offs of decentralisation is that they are
required to take on greater responsibilities in resource generation and
sound fiscal management. States have reacted differently to these
opportunities and constraints and have adopted various approaches with
regard to empowering local governments including their largest cities.
Most states, including Andhra Pradesh, have been reluctant to cede
significant powers to elected municipal councillors, or indeed to
include them in decisions that directly affect their constituencies.
<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Economic policies in particular are considered to fall outside the
purview of local governments</span></li>
<li>Numerous incentives were designed to attract investment to the IT
sector, many granted automatically, such as: exemption from purview of
statutory power cuts, exemption from inspections under most labour laws, and permission for three-shift operation. Incentives for which corporations may apply (and which affect land development in Hyderabad/Andhra Pradesh): a 25% rebate in power tariff, exemption from zoning
regulations, and a rebate on the cost of land</li>
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(<a href="http://www.hyd.stpi.in/services/statutory.html">subset</a>)<br />
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<li>Approvals are given by a single body</li>
<li>A company can set up an STP unit anywhere in India</li>
<li>100% foreign equity is permitted</li>
<li>All imports of software and hardware are duty-free</li>
<li>Import of second-hand capital goods is permitted</li>
<li>Sales within the area are permissible, up to 50% of exports</li>
<li>STP units are exempt from corporate income taxes for entire fiscal years</li>
<li>Capital invested by foreign entrepreneurs, know-how fees, royalty, dividends, etc., can be freely repatriated after payment of income taxes due on them, if any</li>
<li> Repatriation of foreign currency can be done freely</li>
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Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-56508022996140872442011-09-27T13:44:00.001-04:002011-09-29T14:29:26.297-04:00HITEC City: An overview of Hyderabad's Software Technology Park(<a href="http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/andhrapradesh/hyderabad-map.htm">1</a>) <b>Hyderabad Today</b><br />
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<li>Capital city of Andhra Pradesh</li>
<li>Pop. 6.2 million people</li>
<li>6th most populous metropolis in India </li>
<li>Known as the City of Pearls</li>
<li>16 sub-districts, or mandals: Amberpet, Ameerpet, Asifnagar, Bahadurpura, Bandlaguda, Charminar, Golconda, Himayathnayar, Khairtabad, Marredpally, Musheerabad, Nampally, Saidabad, Secunderabad, Shaikput, and Trimulgherry</li>
<li>Home of 23 SEZs, more than any other single city/mandal in the country, and Andhra Pradesh has more than any other province </li>
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The Government of Andhra Pradesh constituted the Quli Qutub Shah Urban
Development Authority to provide better civic amenities including water supply; drainage; communication; electricity; housing; hospitals; schools; banks; hotels; and education, recreation, and marketing facilities.<br />
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The various handicrafts of the district are ornaments made with Rice
Pearls, lacquer bangles studded with stones, silverware, Jewellery,
saris, nirmal and kalamkari paintings and artifacts, bidri handcrafted
items, silk-ware, and handloom-based clothing.<br />
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The IT industry of Hyderabad is one of the main sources of revenue for
the district and the state. At present more than 150 companies are
registered with Hyderabad's <a href="http://www.noida.stpi.in/html/centers.html">Software Technology Park (STP)</a> including Oracle, Microsoft, Dell, Motorola, Verizon, Accenture, Convergys, and Google. The district of Hyderabad is known for its IT
and IT Enabled Services, Pharmaceuticals and Entertainment industries, call centers, BPO (business process outsourcing) firms, and other technological services.<br />
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(<a href="http://www.hyderabad.co.uk/historical.htm">2</a>) <b>Hyderabad Historically</b><br />
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Monuments to the kings of Golconda</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charminar, 1591<br />
Four minarets built on four grand arches commemorating the end of the plague</td></tr>
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Based on the design of the mosque at Mecca<br />
One of the largest mosques in India, it can accommodate 10,000 people at a time</td></tr>
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Name means "mirror in the sky". Designed by an Italian architect.</td></tr>
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(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITEC_City">3</a>) <b>HITEC (Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy) City</b><br />
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<li>20-minute drive from downtown Hyderabad </li>
<li>Comprised of built-to-suit as well as multi-tenanted corporate campuses</li>
<li>Phase I-II: Two towers, Cyber Gateway and Cyber Pearl</li>
<li>Cyber Pearl (phase I): 5 million square feet; intended to house 5,000 IT professionals and support staff<br />
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<li>Cyber Gateway (phase II): almost 900,000 s.f. of office space; much of it tenanted by Indian companies</li>
<li>Hyderabad International Convention Center: 15 acres; 291,000 square feet; designed to accommodate 5,000-6,500 visitors at a time; combined with Novotel, a business hotel; India's most technologically advanced assembly space</li>
<li>HITEX (Hyderabad International Trade Expositions) Center: 100 acres; opened in 2003</li>
<li>L&T Infocity is the first layout that attracted major international corporations. It's spread over 151 acres, 5 million built square feet, and houses 45,000 employees
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cyber Pearl, HITEC City, 2003</td></tr>
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Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-27266831030110635762011-09-21T11:29:00.002-04:002011-09-21T11:30:44.784-04:00Michel Foucault's "Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias" (an excerpt from "Poststructuralism"): a responseUtopias: unachievable. "Unreal". From the Greek 'ou' + 'topos' = no place.<br />
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Heterotopias: "real and effective spaces which are outlined in the very institution of society, but which constitute a sort of counter-arrangement, of effectively realized utopia, in which all the real arrangements, all the other real arrangements that can be found within society, are at one and the same time represented, challenged and overturned: a sort of place that lies outside all places and yet is actually localizable." (352)<br />
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Two kinds: heterotopia of crisis and heterotopia of deviance. The former is disappearing; stated uncritically. Perhaps because more behaviors are embraced as inevitable? And the latter provides an invisible real place, a shunt for the things we do not want to see, or the things we want to see when we do not want to see anything else.<br />
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Second principle: "over the course of its history, a society may take an existing heterotopia, which has never vanished, and make it function in a very different way." (353) For example, cemeteries: is death assumed a part of life (central to the city) or stigmatized with disease and trauma and removed to the outskirts? It exists, but we choose to make places of death invisible, visitable and visible only by special intention.<br />
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Third principle: "The heterotopia has the power of juxtaposing in a single real place different spaces and locations that are incompatible with each other." (354) For example, the garden: the smallest indivisible unit of the entire earth, and also a microcosm of it; the simultaneous reflection of human temperance and unstoppable nature.<br />
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Fourth principle: "Heterotopias are linked for the most part to bits and pieces of time, i.e. they open up through what we might define as a pure symmetry of heterochronisms." (354) For example, a library, which intends to serve as an <i>au courant</i> resource for as comprehensive a collection reaching back into the ages as possible: ancience and nowness not only cannot escape each other, they need each other. What about county fairs? Renaissance festivals? Holiday markets?<br />
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Fifth principle: "Heterotopias always presuppose a system of opening and closing that isolates them and makes them impenetrable at one and the same time." (355) Think of a nursing home or a prison, where even if you are there, you may not actually be present according to the specified function of the building. Sometimes rigorous rituals ("hygiene", "security") are required for any kind of entry. Think also of South American farmhouses, where entry does not entitle casual passersby admittance to the private areas of the residence.<br />
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Sixth principle: Heterotopias "have, in relation to the rest of space, a function that takes place between two opposite poles. On the one hand they perform the task of creating a space of illusion that reveals how all of real space is more illusory, all the locations within which life is fragmented. On the other, they have the function of forming another space, another real space, as perfect, meticulous and well-arranged as ours is disordered, ill-conceived and in a sketchy state." (356) Think of a brothel: a place you go to to fill your needs, where the customer selects which needs are to be filled and the institution provides the illusion of a closed circle, a perfect world where only those needs matter, where they are met perfectly, and where outside considerations are utterly irrelevant. Or of Jesuit colonies, who impose perfectly unnatural conditions on a space in order to achieve social and spiritual perfection.Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-49940460778924256262011-09-14T23:25:00.002-04:002011-09-21T11:04:52.355-04:00A Hidden Gem: the GM Heritage Center<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Walking through the General Motors Heritage Center means discovering an unhidden but unknown treasure of Detroit. It's an oasis of design in the middle of a tract devoted to engineers, factories, and combination Pizza Hut-Taco Bells: cars and engines maintained and displayed like jewellry inside a brick-and-siding box. Our genial tour guide, an eleven-year employee who describes himself as a newcomer, spoke with a strange mixture of pride in the Center's invisibility to all but aficionados, and a wistfulness that more people aren't compelled to visit.</div>
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The space is invisible compared to its brilliant contents but utterly relentless. The moment you step in, you're in love with the vintage colors and meticulously polished chrome. Also the moment you step in, you understand everything there is to know about the space. The dynamic and intelligently arranged collections of cars are almost enough to seduce you into forgetting that you are in a concrete-and-steel box dimly illuminated by small skylights. At the end of the day, though, does that matter? The primary users of the Center are engineers doing technical research and car buffs indulging passionate hobbies. As an architect, the space leaves everything to be desired...but I'm unconvinced that that matters in any material way.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The uber-orthogonal building was relieved only once, with this element.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unlike the Ford mentality, where even tours to the factory can be had by anyone.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The exhibits were lit with spotlights, but the upper part of the space was lit with natural light from skylights.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Metal ad from the 70s. Plastic QR code from yesterday.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the heart of the space, which was visually dominated by the treasures within, was a regular column structure on regular floor plates. Regular, regular, regular.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The center stage, an add-on, with a very minor bump to accommodate cars easily.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ALL the dynamism in the space was provided by the content (although that was formidable).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A blueprint of one of the earliest chassises</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pastoral ads force nostalgia. They were fairly disconcerting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The one natural element in the entire display was highly fetishized. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Although they made little actual impact in the space, the tinted spotlights added to the plastic (material, not characteristic) feel of the space.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For people not there for the cars, control panels and simple work surfaces are tiny oases of function.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dampers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The verbal signs are more highly designed than the visual. (Actually, the one above the door is - well, submitted without further comment.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The white wall and "office area" door lead into--</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A wall (literally) of color and material.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The World Trade Towers, carefully crafted from layer upon layer of copper.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">State-of-the-art meets state-of-the-art.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The atrium of GM's Renaissance Center.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Architect John Portland designed spaces deliberately intended to invoke disorientation. I think the teal column both serves and thwarts his purposes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are we inside, are we outside? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are we inside, are we outside?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the 72nd floor: the sun seems a little bigger from this high up.</td></tr>
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<br />Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-6336893933931329352011-09-12T13:28:00.000-04:002011-09-18T09:09:16.967-04:00Corporate Architecture Presents: Corporate ArchitectureIn contemplating the future of corporate architecture, one must first contemplate the past of corporate architecture. Well, actually, one must first define corporate architecture. In the context of this coming studio, it is being defined by five types. The types are not hard and fast; there is overlap and gray areas between several of them. (They may not be comprehensive either, but they are a place to start.) To that end, neither corporate museums, factories, skyscrapers, corporate campuses, nor promotional pavilions are safe from exploration. The facilities examined reflected the fact that corporations as such are a relatively modern invention.<br />
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The pictures below reflect the collective effort. 12 people researched buildings of all types from the past century. More detailed information to come. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bob, Katie, and Leann work to pull together over a hundred case studies across five types and eleven decades. <br />
And they do it with grace.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bob can even make reaching for pushpins look cool.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taxonomies describing nematodae, rapper names, and beer. Who knew organizational systems could be so broadly accommodating?</td></tr>
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<br />Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-60577684531528367882011-09-04T09:38:00.001-04:002011-09-04T09:38:51.250-04:00Make-ready: ready!And here again, but this time alone and in all their glory, those that made the final cut. I love good photography so much, I wish I were better at it; but I really do like these. Enjoy! And thanks again to Margot Miller for the opportunity to explore her apartment, one of the funnest and funkiest I know (and barely janky at all)!<br />
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<br />Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-295681364999066132011-09-03T18:51:00.001-04:002011-09-04T09:27:41.878-04:00Make-ready: round 3I had 150 photographs to choose from. The first selection process narrowed the field to 78; the second to 35; the third to 12. The penultimate elimination left me with nine really strong photos to choose from, but in the end, there was only room for five. Below, on the left, are the originals; on the right, tweaked to bring out the warmth and detail present in person that may not have shown up as well in the originals. (I feel like this is using PhotoShop for good and not for evil.)<br />
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Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-53898252609306713562011-09-03T18:47:00.001-04:002011-09-04T08:51:59.233-04:00Make-ready: round 2I liked the composition of the photos in the previous post, but for various technical reasons (fuzziness, bad light), I chose not to consider them for the application. The photos below passed all or most of my technical criteria but didn't pass the second round, in which I considered the photos as a set rather than individually. I wanted the photos to tell a cohesive story formally, compositionally, and with their content, and these - while I like most of them very much in themselves! - stood better alone than as part of a group, or simply weren't as compelling as they needed to be.<br />
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Margot: I'm claiming no knowledge in advance of the day you come home and this is missing. I mean, you know. If that were to happen.</div>
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Compositionally, I couldn't be happier with this photo (though in the final version I would have angled the table a little more steeply and cropped out the magazines). The colors, the forms, the materials all do the heavy lifting - which, of course, is why I called Margot first.</div>
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I LOVE THIS CLOCK.</div>
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Leaded glass elements in a house that's already so cool = not fair. Margot's house, spread the love!</div>
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I feel like I should read one of these, just so I can be fancy like Margot.</div>
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I also feel like everyone should have a corner of photos that make them happy.</div>
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I'm in the process of putting together an application that requires both
writing and photography samples. In this process, I'm creating a lot
of work that, while informative and necessary, won't be finding its way
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Margot's self-description on Facebook: "biggest midget in the game". From her MINI to her trucker hats, that's a big 10-4.</div>
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Sidewalk leading up to the house...</div>
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Walkway onto the private property...</div>
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The front porch. I don't know about you, but I think I'd like coming home to a stone-clad porch every day.</div>
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This was one of the first things I saw when I came to visit. It made me want to throw down a cushion and take a sun nap.</div>
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Margot's apartment is on the first floor; the stairwell leading to the units above is just in front of her door. It, like everything else, is clad with natural materials and replete with indirect natural light.</div>
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From the living room to the kitchen (with, of course, a needlepoint of Michigan hanging in the pediment)...</div>
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From the living room to the bedroom...</div>
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And from the bedroom to the living room. For three rooms, her apartment feels wonderfully spacious; the French doors help, as does the orientation of the floorboards. I love my apartment, but I must confess to a certain jealousy of Margot's.</div>
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A chair in the bedroom that does nothing but hold up books? Yes please.</div>
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It's frustrating when really cool elements don't get their proper due in a drab photograph. More practice needed!</div>
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I felt like this photograph was almost really compelling. The colors <i>almost </i>popped; the foreground/background contrast <i>almost </i>really drew you in; the mix between soft and structured elements <i>almost </i>played. Oh well.</div>
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The goose lamp, the printer set up to print wirelessly in the fireplace because her lease prohibits open flames, the mini model of her MINI, the Dwells and Vanity Fairs, the hedgehog clock, the dog tail hook, the dark orange velvet chair: I could try, but I think the reasons I love this photograph (and its contents) are nearly countless.</div>
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Margot expounds on why the horseshoe is not, in fact, upside down. The short version is that in this orientation, it's pouring luck down on those walking through the door. You know what? I like it!</div>
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This photograph was ultimately a failure because I never got the lighting right, but I actually really like the composition. Too bad you can't see it too!</div>
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Real cowgirls drink wine. And have cowgirl coasters. Because real cowgirls also treat their furniture nicely.</div>
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First of all, the 1950s blue cabinet with the spacey appliances. Second of all, the kitchen table chock full of spices.</div>
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These are the cookbooks that a foodie has. Behold, admire, cook me something. (Just kidding.) (Unless you really want to.)</div>
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The weird thing is, the permanently-broken intercom manages not to bespeak an absent landlord...or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.</div>
Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-17477830027361498172011-08-21T21:59:00.000-04:002011-08-21T21:59:41.828-04:00Love is a battlefieldand my brain is a bookmarker. Seriously. I just realized this. <br />
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The people closest to me represent the widest range of memory types, from long-term post-seizure brain scramble (it's a real thing! look it up!) to photographic, near eidetic memory. I am situated firmly in between those two extremes; I'm grateful for what my brain chooses to retain, but always frustrated that it isn't better. <br />
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That frustration stems from my ability to <i>almost</i> remember anything. That's not a split infinitive; that's the verb. To almost remember. If I'm trying to recall a specific detail of a project about which I've read, I can't; but I can remember (after a moment) where I read it, usually including minutiae like the author, the accompanying graphic, and one or two of the more annoying comments. That's happened more times than I can count. Or if I'm trying to remember a particular punchline by one of my friends, the joke will elude me; but I can remember exactly where we were, and when (sometimes down to the minute!), and what the joke-teller was wearing.<br />
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How useless this all is! Why, I plea with my brain, won't it remember what I <i>want </i>it to remember, especially when I want to remember it? I suspect that if I were to try to think of the joke-teller's outfit or that picture, the target would again evade me and I'd have to think around the corners until I finally got to what I wanted. <br />
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That's the thing, though; I do, almost always, remember exactly what I'm grasping for, or remember precisely where to look for the information. I don't have the encyclopedic recall I crave, but I have, for better or worse, the next best thing: the recall of the encyclopedic...index. <br />
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Maybe that's not a bad thing; maybe not keeping it all in my brain lets there be room for more indices than there would be otherwise! Maybe that's wishful thinking...but maybe that's okay, too.Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-35523824169343395562011-08-18T22:30:00.001-04:002011-08-18T22:30:19.616-04:00What I Did On My Summer Vacation<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://artsenginetest.wordpress.com/">I created this website</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://michiganidea.wordpress.com/42hours/">organized this competition</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and <a href="http://architecstasy.blogspot.com/2011/08/thesis-year-looms.html">geared up for thesis</a>.</div>Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-4711950076136332042011-08-18T22:26:00.000-04:002011-08-18T22:26:29.199-04:00A Blooming IdeaMichigan Idea doesn't exist yet. Wait - does it? I guess it depends on what your definition of "is" is, and not wanting this to devolve into some sort of political or ontological porkbarreling, let's say that it <i>almost </i>does.<br />
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What Michigan Idea will be, when it exists, is an archive: a record of interdisciplinary work taking place on the University of Michigan's North Campus - what one recent College of Engineering dean referred to as "the Renaissance Campus". That title is not a stretch when you consider that Music, Theatre, Dance, Art, Design, Architecture, Urban Planning, and every kind of Engineering you can think of is all housed less than a mile from each other (and more than a mile from the rest of campus!). We're a simmering hotbed of creation up here, and it would be great if there were a documenting entity.<br />
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Enter ArtsEngine, the brainchild (and only joint initiative, so far) of the four North Campus deans: a non-academic office that facilitates collaboration between the units and helps to increase the transparency of each to the others. Lots of buzzwords? Maybe. But imagine how exciting it could be to a cartographer to know that an engineer and a musician figured out how to set the Michigan coastline to music. (That really happened!) Or how funny it was when Dr. Duderstadt's office was constantly interrupted by motion-sensitive metallic fire conceived and executed by an engineer, an artist and an architect. ArtsEngine, in turn, is sponsoring a student group: Michigan Idea.<br />
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Michigan Idea's purpose and projects have been unclear from the start: not from lack of enthusiasm, but more from lack of being able to describe both adequately to themselves and in turn to others. I inherited the sort-of-group and have decided to make it my own personal project: to crystallize its mission and cement the foundation of its continuing legacy.<br />
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More on MIdea as it evolves. Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-49904108047132452032011-08-12T12:12:00.000-04:002011-08-12T12:12:08.354-04:00Thesis year looms.(That actually implies a little more dread than I'm comfortable admitting, and doesn't reveal any of the anticipation I also feel.)<br />
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The anticipation has played itself out all summer in voracious reading. I started with some histories of philosophy (<a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/sophie/">Sophie's World</a>, Delacampagne's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/History-Philosophy-Twentieth-Century/dp/0801868149">A History of Philosophy in the 20th Century</a>) in order to more intelligently ground my thinking about my work; and also to lend that thinking a more global and general context than just an architectural read. Also picked up Abraham Maslow's Behavior and Motivation; being a long, long-standing fan of his 'hierarchy', it seemed like now was a good time to delve deeper into his work. Not sure I could have picked a more appropriate work, as far as an intersection between my personal and professional lives; also not sure how I'll incorporate it into my actual work, but I'm finding it fantastically illuminating.<br />
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The reading has been deep, dense, and appropriately confusing/helpful. I also wanted to take this time to up the oomph on my representation techniques by working on technical skills, so I've spent a lot of time going through video tutorials and self-created practice exercises. I watched a mix of series and independent productions; of the former, I found lynda.com's tutorial blogger Deke McClelland and his <a href="http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-CS5-tutorials/dekes-techniques/76067-2.html">Deke's Techniques</a> and architect Alex Hogrefe's <a href="http://www.alexhogrefe.com/tutorials/">blog</a> the most informative. Below are some of the tests I worked through. Next step is to go back through my own old work and apply what I've learned to real?-world samples.<br />
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All things considered, I'm looking forward to thesis work. I'm excited about finding topics to study in-depth, about finding solutions, and about synthesizing all of this with representation. This reminds me more than a little of how I felt just before starting kindergarten: I'm not sure what's coming, but bring it on!<br />
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Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-46847211320377547442011-02-04T11:50:00.000-05:002011-02-04T11:50:01.651-05:00"Nocturne of Remembered Spring"<i> ~ Conrad Aiken </i><br />
<br />
I. <br />
<br />
Moonlight silvers the tops of trees,<br />
Moonlight whitens the lilac shadowed wall<br />
And through the evening fall,<br />
Clearly, as if through enchanted seas,<br />
Footsteps passing, an infinite distance away,<br />
In another world and another day.<br />
Moonlight turns the purple lilacs blue,<br />
Moonlight leaves the fountain hoar and old,<br />
And the boughs of elms grow green and cold,<br />
Our footsteps echo on gleaming stones,<br />
The leaves are stirred to a jargon of muted tones.<br />
This is the night we have kept, you say:<br />
This is the moonlit night that will never die.<br />
Through the grey streets our memories retain<br />
Let us go back again. <br />
<br />
II. <br />
<br />
Mist goes up from the river to dim the stars,<br />
The river is black and cold; so let us dance<br />
To flare of horns, and clang of cymbals and drums;<br />
And strew the glimmering floor with roses,<br />
And remember, while the rich music yawns and closes,<br />
With a luxury of pain, how silence comes.<br />
Yes, we loved each other, long ago;<br />
We moved like wind to a music's ebb and flow.<br />
At a phrase from violins you closed your eyes,<br />
And smiled, and let me lead you how young we were!<br />
Your hair, upon that music, seemed to stir.<br />
Let us return there, let us return, you and I;<br />
Through changeless streets our memories retain<br />
Let us go back again. <br />
<br />
III. <br />
<br />
Mist goes up from the rain steeped earth, and clings<br />
Ghostly with lamplight among drenched maple trees.<br />
We walk in silence and see how the lamplight flings<br />
Fans of shadow upon it the music's mournful pleas<br />
Die out behind us, the door is closed at last,<br />
A net of silver silence is softly cast<br />
Over our thought slowly we walk,<br />
Quietly with delicious pause, we talk,<br />
Of foolish trivial things; of life and death,<br />
Time, and forgetfulness, and dust and truth;<br />
Lilacs and youth.<br />
You laugh, I hear the after taken breath,<br />
You darken your eyes and turn away your head<br />
At something I have said<br />
Some intuition that flew too deep,<br />
And struck a plageant chord.<br />
Tonight, tonight you will remember it as you fall asleep,<br />
Your dream will suddenly blossom with sharp delight,<br />
Goodnight! You say.<br />
The leaves of the lilac dip and sway;<br />
The purple spikes of bloom<br />
Nod their sweetness upon us, lift again,<br />
Your white face turns, I am cought with pain<br />
And silence descends, and dripping of dew from eaves,<br />
And jeweled points of leaves. <br />
<br />
IV. <br />
<br />
I walk in a pleasure of sorrow along the street<br />
And try to remember you; slow drops patter;<br />
Water upon the lilacs has made them sweet;<br />
I brush them with my sleeve, the cool drops scatter;<br />
And suddenly I laugh and stand and listen<br />
As if another had laughed a gust<br />
Rustles the leaves, the wet spikes glisten;<br />
And it seems as though it were you who had shaken the bough,<br />
And spilled the fragrance I pursue your face again,<br />
It grows more vague and lovely, it eludes me now.<br />
I remember that you are gone, and drown in pain.<br />
Something there was I said to you I recall,<br />
Something just as the music seemed to fall <br />
That made you laugh, and burns me still with pleasure.<br />
What were those words the words like dripping fire?<br />
I remember them now, and in sweet leisure<br />
Rehearse the scene, more exquisite than before,<br />
And you more beautiful, and I more wise.<br />
Lilacs and spring, and night, and your clear eyes,<br />
And you, in white, by the darkness of a door:<br />
These things, like voices weaving to richest music,<br />
Flow and fall in the cool night of my mind,<br />
I pursue your ghost among green leaves that are ghostly,<br />
I pursue you, but cannot find.<br />
And suddenly, with a pang that is sweetest of all,<br />
I become aware that I cannot remember you;<br />
The ghost I knew<br />
Has silently plunged in shadows, shadows that stream and fall.<br />
<br />
V. <br />
<br />
Let us go in and dance once more<br />
On the dream's glimmering floor,<br />
Beneath the balcony festooned with roses.<br />
Let us go in and dance once more.<br />
The door behind us closes<br />
Against an evening purple with stars and mist.<br />
Let us go in and keep our tryst<br />
With music and white roses, and spin around<br />
In swirls of sound.<br />
Do you forsee me, married and grown old?<br />
And you, who smile about you at this room,<br />
Is it foretold<br />
That you must step from tumult into gloom,<br />
Forget me, love another?<br />
No, you are Cleopatra, fiercely young,<br />
Laughing upon the topmost stair of night;<br />
Roses upon the desert must be flung;<br />
Above us, light by light,<br />
Weaves the delirious darkness, petal fall,<br />
And music breaks in waves on the pillared wall;<br />
And you are Cleopatra, and do not care.<br />
And so, in memory, you will always be<br />
Young and foolish, a thing of dream and mist;<br />
And so, perhaps when all is disillusioned,<br />
And eternal spring returns once more,<br />
Bringing a ghost of lovelier springs remembered,<br />
You will remember me. <br />
<br />
VI. <br />
<br />
Yet when we meet we seem in silence to say,<br />
Pretending serene forgetfulness of our youth,<br />
"Do you remember but then why should you remember! <br />
Do you remember a certain day,<br />
Or evening rather, spring evening long ago,<br />
We talked of death, and love, and time, and truth,<br />
And said such wise things, things that amused us so <br />
How foolish we were, who thought ourselves so wise!"<br />
And then we laugh, with shadows in our eyes.Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-82970501985987335002010-10-25T14:54:00.004-04:002010-10-25T15:02:51.171-04:00Cause. And Effect.1. Work with line.<br />
2. Work with 10x10 unit.<br />
3. Build up line to suggest depth.<br />
4. Build up line to suggest curves.<br />
5. Work solely with straight lines.<br />
6. Work with line quantities in multiples of 40.<br />
7. Use a geometric series based on 2 to create the basis for density gradients.<br />
8. Locate all elements on center to one another.<br />
9. Lay out grid based on 10x10 module.<br />
10. All elements to be either parallel or normal to one another. No tangents.<br />
11. All elements, combinations, and notation to be located on center at vertices within the grid. <br />
12. Locate all notation within the grid.<br />
13. No scaling; all 2 components to be smaller than 1 components but with internal lines still proportional to whole. <br />
14. Only one turn is allowed in each path from component to combination.<br />
<br />
Decisions that needed to have been incorporated:<br />
1. Use line quantities in multiples of 50.<br />
2. Determine notation size based on 10x10 unit.<br />
3. Determine ratio of 2 components to 1 components (1:2?).<br />
4. Use rational organization between 1s and 2s; same relationship between A-A', B-B', C-C'.<br />
5. Create congruent logic on the placement of all notations. <br />
6. Refine the grid to another 1 or 2 degrees. <br />
7. Use grid to build depth within the drawing.<br />
8. Make each path from component to combination unique.<br />
9. Create opaque field around each component/combination so that lines do not reach actual centers. (Or, not?)<br />
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The result:<br />
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Oh, after_thought. You and I struggled, and I don't think either of us won; but the good thing is, neither of us lost, either. <br />
<br />
Here's what happened.<br />
<br />
What started as an innocent exercise in lasercutting got entirely out of hand. <br />
<br />
I started with two small (4"x8") sheets of basswood and cut small rhomboids out of them. No particular pattern; just a smattering of tiny diamonds. I was instantly fascinated by how the extensive but small-seeming removal made the basswood behave differently; it became more flexible, acting more like fabric or paper than wood.<br />
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In further testing different patterns and densities, I discovered that layering them produced hypnotic effects. It became a compelling activity simply to sit and move them back and forth in front of one another. Two identical diamond fields began to produce new patterns; they reshaped the world behind them; I had know know more.<br />
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Further tests into material (limited, due to machinic constraints, to acrylic and chipboard) yielded the knowledge that patterns got lost in the clear material, even when sanded or painted; the chipboard, however, was a gold mine. I dropped the basswood and did my best to go all the way with chipboard: back to the densities, over a dozen colors, trying to find a logic behind the sizes of the apertures. I dropped the rhomboid (though it would have been nice to keep it) and moved to a circle; it was the cleanest script I could find for raster images, and since I have not yet learned to script myself, it was an acceptable substitute.<br />
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Words do not describe the ongoing fascination I had in your early stages. Those dots! Those hypnotic, sensual, decadent fields of just-barely-differentiated circles! I'm going back to that, Galatea, and the smaller scale that made them so captivating. Come with me, my lovely. Show me how to draw you out.Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-53636423699648798302010-09-27T12:57:00.002-04:002010-09-27T12:58:46.695-04:00No Edward Tufte, But Not Bad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizCglr3Fi1mp1bamKEImS7LoXjYOwtPwdozXcptlrksQKXVZ3tOtuPyv8Qfi2bE8oe1sRPDVGqx5gPsoPu-mpURLQ8attCU9NYAtk0yGyKm7qYz4U-lzp3bzL6U4KtcG8tJvvdnWuEGja8/s1600/graph1_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizCglr3Fi1mp1bamKEImS7LoXjYOwtPwdozXcptlrksQKXVZ3tOtuPyv8Qfi2bE8oe1sRPDVGqx5gPsoPu-mpURLQ8attCU9NYAtk0yGyKm7qYz4U-lzp3bzL6U4KtcG8tJvvdnWuEGja8/s320/graph1_orig.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWz2_iziAXCThKShQpFc-b81v7aanCoHjB9M2D0czFEs5JRQ9Kz58lE6p3Lpzlyu2hcnKY9Ns1vm-HltyNT3bc3VVUpWakHgc269gpoCosARoI85UfnSsUF5T7DB-FUcyjSptBylbaeG3/s1600/graph2_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWz2_iziAXCThKShQpFc-b81v7aanCoHjB9M2D0czFEs5JRQ9Kz58lE6p3Lpzlyu2hcnKY9Ns1vm-HltyNT3bc3VVUpWakHgc269gpoCosARoI85UfnSsUF5T7DB-FUcyjSptBylbaeG3/s320/graph2_orig.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I worked really hard on the graphics above and, while I feel like they're fairly clear, and visually somewhat interesting, they're still lacking punch. In thinking about what that could be, I could have layered in more information (what?), which in turn would have allowed me to layer line weights (how?), which would have both allowed for and necessitated a closer reading of the graphs. As they are, they're interesting and maybe a little funny, and hopefully I'll do the next ones better.<br />
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Gentle Reader: any suggestions?Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-3779807815886918882010-09-22T13:19:00.001-04:002010-09-22T13:27:01.578-04:00Working SpeedI would like to increase mine. <br />
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The last project for studio was a video. We filmed, filmed, filmed; got into the editing software a little bit so we could put together a draft or two; filmed, filmed, filmed, filmed some more; and then the last evening sat down to the video and audio editing. I'm pretty happy with the final product; but since we really only took one solid thwack at editing, I wish we'd stopped iterating a couple of days before (okay, I REALLY wish this, but process is not entirely under your control when working in groups), or rather, gone through fewer iterations during the creation process and more during the editing process.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hepi45NHRd3j3_YUWKlcj6cj32xAgCDOHSVE937QUzW5nz5D7MjkxC4HTvYT0rfSJ1Egcq5WipWKcQICqt6Y51GEmHEZXCeU5oS6hbn6JyOOt_dvFQ7a8Eq5yUQRtFca9_5JdiDEwMm4/s1600/roadrunnerchick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hepi45NHRd3j3_YUWKlcj6cj32xAgCDOHSVE937QUzW5nz5D7MjkxC4HTvYT0rfSJ1Egcq5WipWKcQICqt6Y51GEmHEZXCeU5oS6hbn6JyOOt_dvFQ7a8Eq5yUQRtFca9_5JdiDEwMm4/s320/roadrunnerchick.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">roadrunner chick. obviously.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>This is true across the board. This happened with every project last year, and now this. I'd like to just stop earlier, but I never have material that I'm happy with until the balls-to-the-wall end; so I'd like to work faster and start editing sooner so that I have a final product that is more carefully crafted than that to which I've accustomed myself. I have a few colleagues who are very good at this. I'm not quite sure how to emulate them, but I will be trying.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx2qaPtoYFEmcNN-DklHwafF8q_jpZT0UEn30Hoaai1B3-3Se8s-HtRckbiveaLaut6-ntXjZI5r7qbIKqmxA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>P.S. Posted this and then realized someone might want to see the abovementioned movie. Here, in all its world debut glory, is "Corpus Ex Machina".Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-46689262875022344942010-09-14T22:52:00.000-04:002010-09-14T22:52:35.923-04:00Studio smiley face<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9iYXAR4PC9sXOzfWVhH6L-iT4O1trywHp2Nq0sIWEHcmW_gyu_14MFdSD_YaPGzIhqr20MMzrpS_5RPsUSpr91d6vWRjWdEOdrl1GyIVvUmLAhW01ME0NjoORKGA_Z_NPZ2KXn912Cxtl/s1600/resistance_is_futile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9iYXAR4PC9sXOzfWVhH6L-iT4O1trywHp2Nq0sIWEHcmW_gyu_14MFdSD_YaPGzIhqr20MMzrpS_5RPsUSpr91d6vWRjWdEOdrl1GyIVvUmLAhW01ME0NjoORKGA_Z_NPZ2KXn912Cxtl/s320/resistance_is_futile.jpg" /></a></div>I probably should have posted this before the mind dump, although in retrospect this is probably even more appropriate. I wanted to take a moment to register a new approach to the coming year of studio; namely, studio smiley face. When I was updating my calendar for the coming academic semester and adding in my courses, I filled in the studio block and the mere mention of the word and time slot made my chest heavy, my heart race, my breath erratic. But - I love architecture! I love what I'm learning! I don't want the phenomenon of studio, which has in the past baffled and frustrated me beyond measure, to be this sysiphean effort.<br />
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With that in mind, I started crafting an attitude towards studio that more closely approximates my natural inclinations. I am excited; I am looking forward to the chance to challenge myself and lead myself into uncharted, maybe even scary, waters, remembering that we learn little from our successes and everything from our failures; I am remembering to be grateful for these next two years when my only responsibilities are to explore and learn.<br />
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With this kind of foundation, how could the "studio" entry be just that? So, it isn't. It is now "Studio! :)"; or, in everyday parlance, studio smiley face.<br />
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In closing is an image I ran across a few weeks ago that really seems to drive my feeling towards the studio beast home. <br />
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Robert Wilson and his VOOM portraits (Brad Pitt)<br />
Jenny Holzer and her textual installations<br />
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Yves Klein and his over-the-top use of an eponymous blue<br />
Matthew Barney and his...I have no idea how to describe them.<br />
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"Reasons For Knocking At An Empty House" - it's a book title, also simply an elegant thought.<br />
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<u>definition of disable:</u><br />
1. To deprive of legal right, qualification, or capacity;<br />
2. To make incapable or ineffective; <i>especially</i>: to deprive of physical, moral, or intellectual strength.<br />
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<u>etymology of video:</u><br />
From Latin <i>video</i> "I see", first person singular present indicative of <i>videre</i> "to see". <br />
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interestingly, infrastructure and nymphostructure sound very similar.Jessica A.S. Letawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09654017878401671141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383653748176049101.post-29683934021637349482010-08-05T17:18:00.000-04:002010-08-05T17:18:57.190-04:00Delight-follyI have to admit, I remember reading about follies in school and being dismissive of them. How decadent! How unnecessarily indulgent! How foolish! I stumbled across this, however, and I find myself totally delighted by it. It's well-designed; the materials are simple and integral; and, in my opinion, the object itself is attractive. Hooray for this bit of indulgently decadent bit of unnecessity!<br />
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