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.twenty five.

Here are some pictures from a casual talk between Peter Cook of Archigram and Thom Mayne of Morphosis, at USC last spring. I might have blogged about this in the past, but what the heck Picasa has enabled me to to publish a lot easier so I will post them again. Thom and Peter each got up during the talk and sketched on the chalk board, it was great.

.twenty four.

Below are some pictures that I dredged up from my external hard drive of a quick driving tour of parts of Detroit. These pictures were taken on our way to the airport to fly back to Los Angeles. This trip was back in 2006, I was extremely surprised with the condition of the area.

 

 

This picture seems to show some signs of redevelopment, but these homes are still surrounded by what you see in the other pictures.

This sort of stuff just snaps me back to reality, where I spend most of my time, and reminds me to be thankful for all I do have.  It also feeds my interest in pursuing architecture as a practice so that I can not let this happen, in any town.  

 

 

 

 

Many of these buildings are abandoned, that or squatted in by drug dealers and users, leaving the neighborhood very trecherous at any time of day.  

.marty got my shoe.

Getting more and more tech savvy by the minute. Using my iphone and sho zu app!

.twenty two.

I thought I would test out my Picasa 3 tool that allows users to upload images directly into blogger. What will they think of next.

Below are some snaps that my friend Joe, a PHD candidate at CalTech took of the new Cahill Science building by Morphosis. Sweet.