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Desde La Habana {Imágenes y Son}

Posted in ArchistDesign | Studio, Architectural Photography, Architecture, Art Show, art,poetry,writing, Books, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Habana Diaries, History of Architecture, Le flâneur, Lectures, Music, Photography, photography, Quotes, Reading, Research, School Work, Traveling, tagged Alejo Carpentier, Architectural Styles, Architecture, Centro Habana, city of colums, cuba, Cuban eclecticism, El Malecon, Federico Lorca, graham greene, Habana, Habana Vieja, Havana, havana as a rose, images, La Habana, literary quotes, Lost CIty, photographs, Photography, Quotes, ruins, urban design, Vedado on April 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »

‘Habana is very much like a rose,’ said Fico Fellove in the movie The Lost City, ‘it has petals and it has thorns…so it depends on how you grab it. But in the end it always grabs you.’ “One of the most beautiful cities in the world. You see it with your heart.” Enrique [...]

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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” In recent years , the modern understanding of social responsibility as functional program has been superseded by a concern for context.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 [...]

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Reading Tea Leaves (and Fortune Cookies)

Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, Art Show, Artuesdays, Cures for the Nothing, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Featured Architects, Featured Artists, Film, Lectures, Museum WOWs, Photography, photography, school, School Work, tagged A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now, an affair to remember, caffe' vergnano 1882 san diego, cuba, cuban photography, Echoes of the Avant Garde: Cuban Architecture from the 1930s into the 1960s, exhibits, fortune cookie, getty center, getty villa malibu, jewelry design, joshua tree national park, julio cesar perez hernandez, movie under the stars, much ado about nothing, museum, new york city, old globe theater san diego, Southern California, summer Shakespeare, tea, tea leaves, tops presents san diego, writing in the tea on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Well, this is no good! August is almost here and once again balmy summer days flew by with traveling, urban escapades and some R&R…while the postings have been mighty sparse. I have been a curious tourist in my own city and state, and, in between summer courses, the roamings included a visit to Joshua Tree National Park, Much [...]

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Quotes from Jeremy Till’s ‘Architecture Depends’

Posted in Architecture, architecture, art,poetry,writing, Berkeley Diaries, Books, Featured Architects, History of Architecture, Lectures, Quotes, Research, school, School Work, Theory and Criticism, Writing, writing, tagged abstract vs. situated knowledge, Academia, Architecture, Architecture and Contingency, Architecture Depends, beauty, Biography, criticism, Criticism of professors and profession, Criticism on Modernity, Dean of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster, Detachment, EEAA Prize, elvis costello, ethical, ethics and aesthetics, gideon, Henri Lefebvre, James Joyce, Jeremy Till, Lecture Series, Lost Judgement, morality, Parametric, Polemic, professor, Quotes, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, social space as a social product, talks, theory, UC Berkeley, university lectures, Vitruvius on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

On April 08, 2011 I attended Till’s provocative lecture on his new book ‘Architecture Depends’. Here is a review from The Architects’ Journal (UK). Here are some quotes from that day, from my notes, which i hope to be as faithful as possible: The book was initially titled ‘Architecture and Contingencies’. The publisher made [...]

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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 [...]

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The Flâneur: A Radical-Chic Icon

Posted in Architecture, art, Books, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Collage, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Essay, History of Architecture, Le flâneur, Lectures, Link Love, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Research, school, School Work, Situationism, sketchbook, sketching, The Situationist Internationale, Theory and Criticism, Writing, tagged 1840, 1977, a council of dads, absinthe, aimless wandering, American Flaneur: The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe, Architecture, awareness, Baraka documentary, bells, black and with photography, Boudelaire, boulevards, bruce feiler, buddhism, buildings are lessons, capitalism, cartoon, consumption, Cornelia Otis Skinner, critical attitude, criticism, crowd, dandy, derive, digital flaneur, dissertation, Drawing, Edmund White, familiarity breeds contempt, flaneuse, flâner, flâneuserie, french philiosophy, french poet, getting lost on purpose, guy deborde, hipster, Histories of Leisure by Rudy Koshar, History of Architecture, history of urban design, home in the street, homeless, how to get lost, Hunter S. Thompson, hyperactive city, icon, il flaneur che cammina con una tartaruga, images, ink on paper, Ink on trace paper, intellectual, Interview, Jack Kerouac, James V. Werner, khinkhin, la derive, le flaneur, lecture radical chich icon, leisure, library, living room, loitering, lounger, lounging, market, men strolling with a turtle, metropolis, mindfulness, modernity, moleskine, mookychick.com, most influential books since WW II World War II, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, NPR, On Photography, onewaystreet, Oscar Wilde, Paris, passion, pedestrian engagement, photographer, photographs, Photography, political satire, process of navigating erudition, psychogeography, Rumi, san francisco artist david blumin, sartorialist, scholar, Situazionismo, situazionismo internazionale, sketching, solitary, speed, st.loup secrets and lies, storify.com, streets, streets of Paris, stroller, surprise yourself, Susan Sontag, symbology of the turtle, taking a turtle for a walk, tartaruga, the arcades project, The Black Swan, the city, The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, the flâneur, The Flâneur Walking With a Turtle, the gaze, the Nonist, the Situationist Internationale, thelemming.com, to stroll, turtle, urban design, urban essay Index, urban paradoxes, urban parasite, urban parasitism, urban planning density, urban stalker, urban voyeurism, virtualdavis, walk with a turtle and let him set your pace, Walking, walking meditation, walking witha a turtle, Walter Benjamin, Walter Benjamin's Arcade Project and Urbanism., wanderer, wandering the streets, ways to keep your soul alive, Why I Walk, zen monk on February 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »

” There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flâneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. It was also [...]

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Dispatches from Vladivostok: Architecture, Poetry, the Oneiric, the Grotesque

Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Featured Artists, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Poetry, Quotes, school, School Work, Theory and Criticism, Writing, writing, tagged and the Wilderness Urbanism of John Hejduk, architects as artists, Architecture, architecture of a city, art, Baikal, critical thought, criticism, Detour, Errand, essays on architecture, Exquisite Corpse, Invisible cities, Italo Calvino, John Hejduk, Lake Baikal, Marco Polo, Mask of Medusa, Michael Sorkin, paroles d'architects, Riga, sketches, the ethics of aesthetics, the informer, the minister of culture, theory, venice, Vladivostok on November 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

John Hejduk has been called one of the most influential architects and educators of our time.. He was also a poet, an artist and the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the uber-prestigious Cooper Union in New York. I am reviewing couple of his books, Vladivostok and The Mask of [...]

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The Beginnings of Architecture

Posted in Architecture, architecture, art,poetry,writing, Books, History of Architecture, Lectures, San Diego, school, School Work, tagged A Global History of Architecture. Francis D.K. Ching, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. Spiro Kostof, A World History of Architecture. Michael Fazio, Altamira, and Vikramaditya Prakash, Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity, Beginnings of Architecture, Catal Huyuk, Eddie Izzard, Eddie Izzard on Stonehenge, History of Architecture, History of Architecture textbooks, Jericho, Lascaux, Lawence Wodehouse, Marian Moffett, Mark M. Jarzombek, Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman, Powerpoint Presentation, Pre-Columbian Architecture, Pre-Contact Architecture of the Americas, Stonehenge on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From my Friday’s History Class. The Beginnings of Architecture covers Stonehenge, the caves at Lascaux and Altamira, and what we consider the beginning of the urban revolution in our hemisphere, the proto-cities of Catal Huyuk and Jericho. I will share weekly my History powerpoints, well, okay, the ones I consider complete…next I want to sharpen [...]

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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, [...]

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Queen Califia’s Magical Garden {Continued}

Posted in art,poetry,writing, Drawing, Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, San Diego, school, School Work, Tutorial, Watercolor, tagged An open sketchbook, Architecture, Botanical Garden, Color Drawing by Doyle, Color rendering, Drawing, Escondido, fabric, Furniture, hand rendering, illustration, ink, Interior rendering, Kit Carson Park, Markers, Niki St. Phalle, Prismacolor Pencil, Queen Califia's Magical Garden, san diego, Suzanne Cabrera, Texture, Tutorial, Urban Sketchers, Watercolor on August 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Lately, I’ve favored the watercolor and pencil technique, but want to get back to working with markers. I found these two great tutorials on marker renderings from my blog friend and Urban Sketcher extraordinaire Suzanne Cabrera at An [Open] Sketchbook: can’t wait to share them with my students! { Tutorial 1: Furniture/Fabric } { Tutorial [...]

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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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SoCal – E>< : Exploratory Design Workshop

Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Desk Crit, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Paper Goods, Pastel, Photography, school, tagged Albert Frey, Alberto Kalach, Alfredo Melly, Andrea Benavides, Archigram, Architectural Collage, Architecture, california, Case Study Homes, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Santamaria, Christine & Russell Forester, collage, Coop Himmelblau, Craig Ellwood, Culver City, Daly Genik Architects, Del Mar, Don Wexler, Ed Killingsworth, Eric Owen Moss, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Frank Gehry, Gehry Technologies, Greene and Greene, Hector Perez, Henry Palomino, Kathy McCormick & Ted Smith, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Luce Et Studio, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Morphosis, Nancy Tariga, newschool of architecture and design, Palm Springs, pasadena, Residential Design, Richard NeutraRudolph Schindler, san diego, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Monica, Sebastian Mariscal, Sebastian Mariscal Studio, Smith and Others, SoCal Exploratory Design Workshop, Southern California Design and Architecture, Superstudio, Ted Smith, venice on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Something eye-opening occurred at my school yesterday. I attended the exhibit for SoCal -Ex : Exploratory Design Workshop, completed by Professor Hector Perez and his students. Here are the specific of the Workshop: 6 Explorers Andrea Benavides/Alfredo Melly/Henry Palomino/Charles Santamaria/Nancy Tariga 25 Days July 12-August 5 10 Field Trips San Diego/La Jolla/Del Mar/San Juan Capistrano/Los Angeles/Santa [...]

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Chairs, Chairs, Chairs (on Coffee)

Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Design, Desk Crit, Drawing, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Painting, school, School Work, Watercolor, tagged Betty Edwards, Chairs, Class Experiment, Coffee, Figure Ground, How to Draw on the right Side of the Brain, Miti Aiello, Picasso, Stravinsky, Talent, Upside Down Drawing on August 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Another exercise with ‘Drawing on the Righ Side of the Brain’. By drawing the space, not the chair, the proportions were incredibly accurate in all drawings. The drawings can be read as Nolli Maps of imaginary cities, we can see piazzas, palazzi…we can see perspective, spatial configurations/plans, abstract paintings… I love the ambivalent water medium, [...]

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Mango (della gelosia)

Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Books, Drawing, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Spontaneous Constructs, Watercolor, tagged Architect, book, diane Y. Welch, Indipendent Women in Architecture, lillian rice, mango, san diego, Sincerely Yours, sketchbook, Watercolor on June 9, 2010 | 15 Comments »

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Artuesday | Students’ Work!

Posted in Artuesdays, Experiments, Lectures, Painting, School Work, Spontaneous Constructs, tagged art, coffee shop, Francisco Sanin, neoclassic to modern art, newschool of architecture and design, painting exhibit, Students' artwork, Syracuse on April 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I spent the better part of last night ‘curating’ and putting up a small show of my students’ work. Last quarter I promised my Neoclassic to Modern Art students I would organize an exhibit of their art in the main foyer of our school and I am happy to announce that that’s one promise kept:) [...]

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Cures for the Nothing: Vernacular Architecture in Persia and James Brown of Public, San Diego

Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Drawing, Lectures, Writing, tagged adobe construction, conductive coolingwater featurs, Earth to Spirit.In search of Natural Architecture, eveporative cooling, gardens, green sustainable architecture, Iran, James Brown, le corbusier, Leed, MSA Architecture, Passive Solar Design and Archtecture, Persian Vernacular Architecture, Public Architecture and Planning San Diego, Simi Razavian, Tabas, The Nothing, Thermal Delight in Architecture, wind towers on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Last week I had the privilege to attend two remarkable lectures. The first, on Vernacular Architecture in Persia by the Architect Simi Razavian of MSA&Associates, Inc. Architecture, was a guest lecture part of my Non-Western Traditions seminar class. Simi masterfully shared with us passive-solar techniques used in her native Iran, the lyrical wind towers of [...]

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