Experimenting in Public Space: New Technologies & Making in Seattle’s Landscape Architecture
I’m co-curating, designing and installing an exhibit this month (May-June 2012) at AIA Seattle. It will cover both new and well known Seattle Landscape Architecture projects in a different light. This is a smaller exhibit that will feed into the larger exhibit that I worked on this past winter (From Gas Works Park to Pop-Up … Continue reading
Cinque Terre
Just a few weeks ago I was in Cinque Terre, hunting for piped stream beds underground, rushing under our feet through layers of basalt and concrete. The towns are set on steep cliffs and hillsides, spilling down into the Ligurian Sea. A few cohorts and I made it three towns over the cliffside path to … Continue reading
Transects, Multiple Narratives of the Tiber
We were assigned transects of Rome last week to track by foot in order to record our investigations in a booklet format (presented both digitally and in print). I’m working with two generous architecture grads as well as a second year MLA. I’ll post a full recording next week (map of transect and run down … Continue reading
Interlude, Perfecting The 60 Second Scribble
Note: Stick to profiles, striations and voids. Avoid .005 pens and obsessive attention to detail. Hunting down fountains in Sienna, piped tributaries in Cinque Terre, and Medici facades in Pisa on the trip north left brief moments for reflection and scribbling. Here are a few of the more successful studies frantically etched during pauses and … Continue reading
Rewind, Sneakers Meet Basalt Paving Stones
My first meal in Italy consisted of an overpriced, but delicious pizza diavolo in the Campo de Fiori under the shadow of Giordano Bruno, a sixteenth century philosopher burned at the stake during the Roman Inquisition. The Campo regularly held public executions. The usual he said, she said heliocentrism agrument. The monument is regularly screen … Continue reading
Take Offs & Landings
Reports from a stringer’s strange and lonesome travails. This log offers a 365x view of the urban landscape in Rome for the next three months, corresponding projects, tangents, fields and intersections to be shared shortly.
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