Apparently this is my year. The year of the Water Dragon. I am happy to say, I am finally completing my architecture website. This other digital studio has been on the back burner for about a year , but it looks like 2012 is the antithesis of procrastination. A year that quickens…like a strong sun [...]
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Architectural Photography in the Year of the Dragon
Posted in ArchistDesign | Studio, Architectural Photography, Architecture, architecture, art,poetry,writing, Competitions and Collaborations, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Photography, photography, Portfolio of Work, San Diego, tagged archisdesign studio, ArchitDesign Studio, Architectural Concepts, architectural photographer san diego, architectural photography, Architecture, architecture project, interior design, interior photography, Margit Whitlock Espinosa, Photography, San Diego Architecture firm, san diego designer, san diego interior architecture firm, san diego interior design on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My [humble] contribution to the Occupy Movement
Posted in Architecture, Competitions and Collaborations, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Graphic Design, Research, San Diego, tagged #occupyarchitecture, logo, occupy architects, occupy movement, occupy san diego, occupy wall street on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s to the three fearless women who burned the midnight oil mad-drawing, brainstorming, smoking…and listening to a French radio station. Here’s to completing a full series of state-of-the-art presentation drawings in one night. Here’s to our kick-ass boards and efficient subversiveness. Here’s to your question, La Gitane : “How does it feel to be talented?” [...]
Thinking Deconstructivism in a Canyon
Posted in Architecture, architecture, Articles & Essays, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, History of Architecture, Lectures, Photography, photography, Quotes, Reading, Research, San Diego, Spontaneous Constructs, Theory and Criticism, Writing, writing, tagged bridges, collage, context, deconstructivist approach, Deconstructivist architecture, defamiliarization., familiar, mark wigley, photomontage, reading on a bridge on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
” In recent years , the modern understanding of social responsibility as functional program has been superseded by a concern for context. But contextualism has been used as an excuse for mediocrity, for a dumb servility within the familiar. Since deconstructivist architecture seeks the unfamiliar within the familiar, it displaces the context rather than acquiesce [...]
The Secret of the Lost Umbrella | Essay on Orange
Posted in art, Collage, Design, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Poetry, Writing, tagged collage, delayed bag, Drawing, essay, madrid, manana llovera, markable folding umbrella, michele foyer, muji, my orange, orange, stolen umbrella, umbrella, Watercolor on November 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I was recently reunited with luggage lost 45 days ago. Three items were missing: a bottle of Cinema Eau De Parfum by Yves Saint Laurent, a beloved collaged orange umbrella bought in Barcelona and a pair of Sketchers shoes. Go figure. Immediately i set out to substitute my lost umbrella. As said in one Law [...]
Dialogues in an Echo Chamber
Posted in Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Ink, tagged art, comic, Drawing, figure drawing, ghdah alkandari, ink, inner dialogue, kafka, line art, the trial on November 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This drawing was inspired by this one , by my blogsister Ghadah Alkandari.
New Jewelry Design: ‘Three Talismans | Nodes’ necklace
Posted in Architecture, art, Design, Experiments, Jewelry, Jewelry and Accessory Design, Poetry, Writing, tagged architectural, beads, bolts intrepidity, copper strands three nodes, industrial chic, jewelry design, nuts, rugged, Susan Lenart Kazmer, talismans on October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A talisman (from Arabic طلسم Tilasm, ultimately from Greek telesma or from the Greek word “telein” which means “to initiate into the mysteries”) is an amulet or other object considered to possess supernatural or magical powers. (thankyou wiki.) Each spacer/bolt has the word intre·pidi·ty embedded on it. Susan Lenart Kazmer, of Industrial chic ,gives us [...]
Present & Gifts
Posted in Design, Graphic Design, Link Love, tagged Birthday, blogsister, ghadah alkandari, giftbag, poetic, Pretty Green Bullet on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For my birthday, my blogsister Ghadah dedicated a page to me <3
Finished project and the [abstract] underside of things.
Posted in Architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, Experiments, Spontaneous Constructs, Theory and Criticism, tagged 3d fabric paint, Abstract, backpacks, collage, fabric city, fabric collage, psychogeographic map of paris, situationsits, the city, thread paintings on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The reverse side of “The City” reminds me of a Situationist psychogeographic map. I toyed with the idea of letting go of all the work on the map and apply this abstract work on the backback. This would have been the gutsy thing to do but, in the end , i couldn’t let go of [...]
Fabric City, Kisses and Beads
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Experiments, Jewelry, Spontaneous Constructs, tagged 100%polypropylene, beads, collages, construct, dancing dresses, fabric map, hands. collaborative work, jewelry design, kisses, la gitane, maps, model, mylar, new york, patchwork, Watercolor, yupo watercolor paper on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Fabric City is finally finished! Yay! Back to collages and sketches now. From this… …to a process of cutting and puzzle-making… to this: Tomorrow the ‘city’ will be cut and applied to a presently plain backpack and signed. I also want to share this impromptu jewelry design, my second, kindly modeled! Finally, work inspired by [...]
La Gattamorta and Auden on Love, Time
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Design, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, tagged art, as i walked out one evening, binary code, cat, digital manipulation, female cat, gatta, gattamorta, image, Love, Poetry, time, w.h.auden on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: ‘Love has no ending. [...]
Rain of Frogs [fragments, poems, movie lines]
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Ink, Poetry, San Diego, Thoughts in the alley, Writing, writing, tagged a story that could be true, agata and the storm, agata e la tempesta, Digital Collage, frogs, poem, Poetry, rain, william stafford on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Pretty Parking Lot I have dreamt of perfect poems faded like dewdrops upon awakening About mice and buildings built by men Cities are sentences that haunt me Book thieves, foreign movies… the line is thin between memories and reverie The fog has lifted the rain felt soft [...]
Cities and Abstract Art
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, Graphic Design, tagged 3D, arab town, collage, domestic architecture of the arab region, Drawing, fabric, map, marrakesh, medina, old town, traditional arab town, tunis on April 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Marrakesh. From ‘Domestic Architecture of the Arab Region’.
Hybrid Notes : Bjarke Ingels. San Diego. 02.25.2011
Posted in Architecture, art, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Digital Collage, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Featured Architects, Lectures, Museum WOWs, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, San Diego, school, School Work, sketchbook, sketching, Theory and Criticism, Writing, tagged 2011, AIAS NSAD, Allen Ghaida, Autograph, BIG, bjarke ingels, california, danish architect, Drawing, february "%, Hybrid notes, lecture notes, museum of natural history, newschool, NewSchool Arts Foundation, newschool of architecture and design, notes from the lecture, NSAD, NSAF, Review, san diego, sketches, visual notes, yes is more on February 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Bjarke Ingels came to speak to our school Friday night. The venue was the Museum of Natural History in scenic Balboa Park. I am still blown away by the lecture and, more importantly, the message. It was truly (r)evolutionary. The fact that BIG’s insanely brilliant concepts not only get built but a) give back to [...]
Creativity! [dedicated to you!]
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Coffee, Cures for the Nothing, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Experiments, Link Love, Quotes, sketchbook, sketching, Tutorial, tagged 7ways to spark creativity, abbey ryan, abbeyryan.com, Anna Rabinowicz, art, atercolor, book, cappuccino, Coffee, creative assignments, creativity, daily inspiration, daily oil painting, danny gregory, dedication to the arts, Design, double shot, download, Drawing, ebook, february 2011 issue, february creativity challenge, filmmaker Miranda July and artist Harrell Fletcher, ghadah alkandari, illy, ink, latte macchiato, learning to love you more, Link Love, literature, Maurice Ronnet Le feu Follet - Luis Malle (1963), micheal nobbs, o, oprah magazine, Oprah on Ipad, pen drawing, philadelphia painter, Poetry, pretygreenbullet, sketchbook, Sketchbook O, sketches, sketching, st.loup secrets and lies, start to draw your life, the creative license, unquiz on February 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Everywhere I turn these days i see the word Creativity..could this be a sign …cause I have not been posting that much??? This post is more like…four…but so be it. A dear student let me borrow this fantastic book: The Creative License: Giving yourself permission to be the artist you truly are. What a wonderful [...]
New Day, New Year
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Photography, tagged Design, happy new year, interios design, michael buble', Milano, Photography, typography, vetrine, windo dressing, window dressing, wishes on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While the first day of 2011 is coming to a close here in Milano, I think of what my mom always says: ‘What you do the first day of the year, you do all year’. I am happy to report I sketched today and fed my mind with architecture, art, and words. I also wanted to [...]
XRay of my Brain II
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, Digital Collage, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Portfolio of Work, school, School Work, Watercolor, tagged Architecture, art, faculty work, Pedagogy, portfolio of work, Practice on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My second board for the faculty display wall. I now have a list of new art to add to my portfolio tabs, as this was a great opportunity to curate my artwork. It feels great to be done (for now). Happy Halloween!
An X-Ray of my brain
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, school, School Work, writing, tagged Faculty Board, Miti Aiello, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Practice on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The board is done and up on the faculty display wall. In the process, I refined my skills with Illustrator, pondered philosophy, practice, pedagogy,and crystallized what I am, do, stand for — in a tangible format. A welcome tall order.
Collages in Art and Architecture
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Collage, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Graphic Design, School Work, tagged collage, collage in art and architecture, crackling glaze, gloss, Hector Perez, repetition, richard meier, socal ex on October 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I have been thinking and wanting to explore collages again since this summer, when I was so inspired by Hector Perez and his students’ work with SoCal Ex–but not until today I finally acted on that impulse. I have two works done and one almost complete. Two to share, and one part of a larger, [...]
Steven Holl: Sketches, Watercolors, Collages
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, F R A G M E N T S, school, School Work, Watercolor, Writing, tagged Archigram, Architect, Architecture, art, collage, Drawing, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum(1992-1998), Knut Hamsen Museum(1994-2009), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999-2002), Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture (2002-2009), photocollage, Simmons Hall, sketch, sketchbook, Steven Holl, Watercolor, watercolorist, written in water, written on water on October 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
All images are from a research project completed by my student, Mariam Thomas, on Architects as Artists and their rendering/design techniques. The relationship between architecture and art, and the study of practitioners who are also artists (with the mindframe of artists), whose design process transcends design practices and pragmatism to include enlightment, discoveries and art- wonderings [...]
San Francisco Big Heart
Posted in art, Design, Drawing, Poetry, Quotes, San Francisco Diaries, Writing, tagged cocktail ring, Drawing, gift, ink, Love, ring, san francisco, sketching on October 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today was the one year anniversary of the official launch of SketchBloom! Let’s drink a cup of tea to that:)
New Cashmere Scarf
Posted in art, Berkeley Diaries, Design, Drawing, Painting, Poetry, Watercolor, Writing, tagged cashmere scarf, Drawing, sketch, Watercolor on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ink and Watercolor on paper. September 30,2010.
Class Notes: Thinking in Axonometric
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Desk Crit, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, F R A G M E N T S, school, School Work, tagged Adding and Subtracting, Addition, Architect, Architectural Construct, Architectural Design, Architecture, Architecture Model, Architecture Studio, artist, Composition, Cone, Cylinder, Design, Design Composition, desk crits, Drawing, Explorations, Felt Tip Pen, First Year Design studio, Foam Models, ink, ink drawing, Interpenetration, Marker, Materials, Miti Aiello, newschool of architecture and design, Orthographic Design, pathways, Platonic solids, Platonic Solids Exercises, san diego, Scale, Schematic Design, Shadow Calculation, Shadows, Sharpie, sketchbook, sketches, Sphere, Subtraction, Texture, Utopia, Volumetrics, White Model on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Shadows, Math, Truth…Ephipanies
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Desk Crit, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Lectures, Quotes, school, School Work, Writing, tagged Abstraction, Architecture, Being then Doing, Drawing, Drawing and Sketching as Tools for Design, First Year Design studio, John Ruskin Quote, light, Light Angle, Philosophy, Platonic solids, Quotes, Reduction, Reductive process, Shadows in Axonometric, Truth on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy September. Post coming late today, but it is a new month and I hope this, my birthday month (yay) will be better than the last- and all summer for that matter. Lots of challenges and growth but…they don’t call them growing pains for nothing. In my classes today we shared links on artists, visual notes, [...]
Working with Color
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Drawing, Experiments, Graphic Design, NaBloPoMo, San Diego, school, School Work, Tutorial, Watercolor, tagged Architecture, Botanical Garden, Color Drawing by Doyle, Color rendering, Drawing, Escondido, fabric, Furniture, hand rendering, illustration, ink, ink drawing, Kit Carson Park, loose rendering, loose sketch, marker rag paper, Markers, Niki St. Phalle, Prismacolor Pencil, Queen Califia's Magical Garden, san diego, Texture, trace paper, tracing, transfering, Tutorial, Urban Sketchers, Watercolor on August 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Do you remember Niki St. Phalle’s ‘Queen Califia’s Magical Garden’? Well, I went back with my students for some loose watercolor and pencil renderings.
Arabesque
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Drawing, Music, tagged 100 Beats Arabica, Amoeba Records, Andalusia, Arab design, Arab lamp, Arab Music, Arabesque, Arabic, Cheb Khaled, Haight Ashbury, Islamic Architecture, Kan Zaman, lucernaire, Maghreb Musiqa, moorish, North African Music, Radio Tarifa, san francisco, Spirit of Rai, World Music on August 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Serendipity: a stop at Amoeba Records, to buy some CD’s. Then dinner. Drawing *the same* subject as the CD cover, which I did not stop to look at, but my brain obviously recorded. As someone said, ‘ Everything’s connected.’ Musical Journeys:
Magritte and Surrealist Architecture
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Lectures, Link Love, NaBloPoMo, Painting, tagged 39GeorgeV, A rare Renée Magritte. La Poitrine. 1961, Apple Macbook, Architecture, Artists revisit the modern house, Belgium, BLDGBLOG, blue building, Daily Mail, Daniel Arsham, Delfshaven, Frankfurt's Bockenheimer Warte Subway Station, Iphone painting, London, Magritte Museum, Magritte-inspired art vinyl, P&O Building demolition, Painting the Glass House, Paris, Renée Magritte. Irene., Renée Magritte. Le Tombeur des lutteurs. 1960, Renée Magritte. Personal Values. 1952, Renee Magritte. Eulogy of the Dialectic., Rotterdam, Royal Museum of fine Arts, Scaffolding, Schildersbedrijf N&F Hijnen, Steve John, Surrealism, Surrealist Cover, The Curated Object, The M-House, Yale School of Architecture on August 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In my search, I stumbled upon Myriam Mahiques, who shares some thoughts on Magritte, and Immateriality in Painting and Architecture. Instances of Surrealist Architecture and Urban Design: Click on the images for more details and to see source. Book : Surrealism and Architecture edited by Thomas Mical
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