ORDINARY BUILDING BIZEN
Just another ordinary building in Bizen, Japan. After getting off the train and then starting to walk thru the town, this was the second building that I took photos of. There are many buildings...
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EVERYDAY MODERNISM
On a forced march thru Tokyo, I was stunned to have this building suddenly appear across a parking lot. When you see something like this, it almost takes your breath away. I call this...
ORDINARY BUILDING – MOROCCO
It is the light. The constantly changing light. And the blueness of the sky. In Morocco, I found myself spending a lot of time looking directly up. And one reason was the courtyards. Every...
TRAVEL BUILDING 1
During a day trip to Sintra which is about an hour by train outside of Lisbon, we were walking hurriedly to catch the train. I was taken by this building. Yet there was no...
CROATIA GARAGE
Many times, an ordinary building can capture your attention. We are traveling this week, so I offer this simple drawing of a simple building. I snapped the photo below from my bicycle. We were...
GUINET FARMHOUSE
Three views of an ordinary building. I was leafing thru Form Function and Design by Jacques Grillo. On page 108, he includes three views of an ordinary building. And two of the three views...
CULTURAL COPYING
The cultural provenance of your ideas and solutions is what will establish what is valued, and what is not. How you manage, parse and organize the Googlized information flood is a significant part of...
IS CONTEXT THE NEW CONTENT?
The title above is a quote by Kenneth Goldsmith in his collection of essays titled “Uncreative Writing.” Goldsmith is a conceptual poet. Yet his ideas regarding the provenance of our ideas, specifically within...
DRAWING MUSEUM
Sergei Tchoban just gave a lecture at Cornell on the topic of his Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin. I was not able to attend, principally because I found out about the lecture on...
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