tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67685003098203234152024-03-04T22:30:02.528-08:00the design blog of lawrence kasparowitzkasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768500309820323415.post-89647473338179444962019-11-15T09:08:00.001-08:002019-11-15T09:13:35.926-08:00Shipping container houses...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is a lot of "buzz" about using shipping containers for houses. The drawings below are preliminary concepts I created for a client in Georgia.<br />
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<br />kasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768500309820323415.post-6894292434810105992017-04-11T16:33:00.000-07:002017-09-12T09:50:38.648-07:00Palmanova<br />
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Palmanova is a city <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fdd24bd4-ef86-467b-bfbc-94960b238135" id="83156a4c-8992-4190-be6e-f91502f7589a">in Italy constructed</gs> during the Renaissance and it is the only city built following the ideals of a utopia. It is a concentric city <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="441c19d5-8424-4738-9eee-4b25c5564262" id="a792b7b3-3eb8-43ef-9723-77a227be34c0">with</gs> the form of a star, with three nine-sided ring roads intersecting in the main military radiating streets.</div>
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It was built at the end of the 16th century by the Venetian Republic, which was at the time, a major center of trade. It is actually considered to be a fort, because the military architect Giulio Savorgnano designed to be a Venetian military station to the eastern frontier, to protect against the Ottoman Empire.</div>
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During the Renaissance, many ideas of a utopia, both as a society and as a city, surfaced: a place where there was perfection in the entire society. These ideas started by Sir Thomas Moore, when he wrote the book Utopia, describing a city and also the life of the people who lived there. His book sparked a flame in this subject and many other books were written. They all followed a major theme: equality. Everyone had the same amount of wealth, respect, and life experiences. The society had a calculated elimination of variety and a monotonous environment.<br />
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The city where they lived was always geometric in shape and was surrounded by a wall. These walls provided military strength and also protected the city by preserving and passing on man’s knowledge. The knowledge, learning and science gave form to the daily life of the people living inside the walls. The knowledge of each person was shared by the entire society, and there was no way to let any information either in or out. As Thomas More said in his book, “He that knows one, knows them all, they are so alike one another”</div>
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Alberti, and then followed by Filarete, were the first ones to develop the ideas of a Utopia into the plan of a city. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e995e960-5048-44ca-b9b2-bbc72f2fbf0e" id="d13a23ff-f2d3-4459-8fb5-b14f6d5263de">Filarete</gs> designed a concentric city, with peaks and radiating streets, which he called Sforzinda. His geometry was the imitation of a schema representing the world, and it is believed to have derived from two overlaying squares<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fca814f7-58c3-448a-b40a-416842ce0340" id="0b6ecb70-bf4b-4468-96d0-02bbbf036ca5">.</gs>5 Sforzinda later became the most influential plan in the design of Palmanova. Since Palmanova was built during the Renaissance, it imposed geometrical harmony and followed the idea that beauty reinforces the wellness of a society. Each road and move <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="284a900e-9adb-4848-8a38-3dd66b0c4604" id="89a83aba-8d96-4f9c-b2a0-b8813c1576ed">was carefully calibrated</gs> and each part of the plan had a reason for being. Each person would have the same amount of responsibility and land, and each person had to serve a specific purpose. The concentric shape was the most prominent design move and had many reasons for being.</div>
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The circular shape of Palmanova was greatly influenced by the fact that it needed to be a fort. At the time of its construction, many other urban theoreticians found the checkerboard was more useful, but it did not provide the protection that military architects looked for. The walls were broken so that <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8cc056c4-5c36-4a94-8c6d-827843d67c3c" id="dfa7518f-1379-4828-bd6f-fee92b07e3e8">soldiers</gs> couldn’t approach it easily and because the angles created were difficult to attack.</div>
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The shape also comes from cosmological ideas, and reflects on the religion of the time. It is believed to be the most perfect of all geometries, because the radii are equidistant at all points, and it is a mirror of a harmonious cosmic order. In the Catholic religion, the circle is the basis of everything created, and it represents the repeat of the original sin. What this means is that the circular shape also works to imitate nature, and to appear to blend in instead of being very harshly different from the landscape, so the city would be seen as ‘natural’ and therefore be divine.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>I graduated from high school in 1962 and was accepted at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. My father was a truck driver and worked out of Queens. I was still living at home in Wantagh, Nassau County and so my father would drive me into the city with him. We left the house at 5:30 am and drove in. My dad would stop at a diner and get breakfast. I remember the smells... fresh baked corn and bran muffins, a heap of home fries on the grill. It seemed to me that the owners were named Nick and Gus (Greek, of course). </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.5px;">The first diner was created in 1872 by Walter Scott, who sold food out of a horse-pulled wagon to employees of the <i>Providence Journal</i>, in Providence, Rhode Island. Scott's diner can be considered the first diner with “walk up” service, as it had windows on each side of the wagon. Commercial production of lunch wagons began in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1887, by Thomas Buckley. Buckley was successful and became known for his "White House Cafe" wagons.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 17.5px;">Charles Palmer received the first patent (1893) for the </span>diner<span style="font-size: 17.5px;">, which he billed as a "Night-Lunch Wagon." He built his "fancy night cafes" and "night lunch wagons" in the Worcester area until 1901.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Inspired by the streamlined trains, and especially the Burlington Zephyr, Roland Stickney designed a diner in the shape of a streamlined train called the Sterling Streamliner in 1939. Built by the J.B. Judkins coach company, who had built custom car bodies, the Sterling and other diner production ceased in 1942 at the beginning of American involvement in World War II. Two Sterling Streamliners remain in operation: the Salem Diner at its original location in Salem, Massachusetts and the Modern Diner in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As the number of seats increased, wagons gave way to pre-fabricated buildings made by many of the same manufacturers who had made the wagons. Like the lunch wagon, a stationary diner allowed one to set up a food service business quickly using pre-assembled constructs and equipment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In many areas, diners were superseded in the 1970s by fast food restaurants, but in parts of New Jersey, New York, the New England states, Delaware and Pennsylvania the independently-owned diner remains relatively common. During this period, newly constructed diners lost their narrow, stainless steel, streamlined appearance, and grew into much bigger buildings, though often still made of several pre-fabricated modules and assembled on site and still manufactured by the old line diner builders. A wide variety of architectural styles were now used for these later diners, including Cape Cod and Colonial. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The old-style single module diners featuring a long counter and a few small booths sometimes now grew additional dining rooms, lavish wallpaper, fountains, crystal chandeliers and Greek statuary. The definition of the term <i>diner</i> began to blur as older, pre-fab diners received more conventional frame additions, sometimes leaving the original structure nearly unrecognizable as it was surrounded by new construction or a renovated facade. Businesses that called themselves diners but which were built onsite and not prefabricated began to appear. These larger establishments were sometimes known as <b>diner-restaurants</b>.Until the Great Depression, most diner manufacturers and their customers were located in the Northeast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Diner manufacturing suffered with other industries in the Depression, though not as much as others, and the diner offered a less expensive way of getting into the restaurant business as well as less expensive food than more formal establishments. After World War II, as the economy returned to civilian production and the suburbs boomed, diners were an attractive small business opportunity. During this period, diners spread beyond their original urban and small town market to highway strips in the suburbs, even reaching the Midwest, with manufacturers such as Valentine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like a mobile home, the original style diner is narrow and elongated and allows roadway or railway transportation to the restaurant's site. In the traditional diner floorplan, a service counter dominates the interior, with a preparation area against the back wall and floor-mounted stools for the customers in front</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Larger models may have a row of booths against the front wall and at the ends. The decor varied over time. Diners of the 1920s–1940s feature Art Deco or Streamline Moderne elements or copy the appearance of rail dining cars (though very few are, in fact, refurbished rail cars). They featured porcelain enamel exteriors, some with the name written on the front, others with bands of enamel, others in flutes. Many had a "barrel vault" roofline. Tile floors were common. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Diners of the 1950s tended to use stainless steel panels, porcelain enamel, glass blocks, terrazzo floors, Formica and neon sign trim. Diners built in the 2000s generally have a different type of architecture; they are laid out more like restaurants, retaining some aspects of traditional diner architecture (stainless steel and Art Deco elements, usually) while discarding others (the small size, and emphasis on the counter).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Diners attract a wide spectrum of the local populations, and are generally small businesses. From the mid-twentieth century onwards, they have been seen as quintessentially American, reflecting the perceived cultural diversity and egalitarian nature of the country at large. Throughout much of the 20th century, diners, particularly in the Northeast, were often owned and operated by Greek-American immigrant families. The presence of Greek casual food, like gyros and souvlaki, on several diners' menus, testifies to this cultural link.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Diners frequently stay open 24 hours a day, especially in cities, and were once America's most widespread 24-hour public establishments, making them an essential part of urban culture, alongside bars and nightclubs; these two segments of nighttime urban culture often find themselves intertwined, as many diners get a good deal of late-night business from persons departing drinking establishments. Many diners were also historically placed near factories which operated 24 hours a day, with night shift workers providing a key part of the customer base. All this meant diners could serve as symbols of loneliness and isolation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Edward Hopper's iconic 1942 painting <i>Nighthawks</i> depicts a diner and its occupants, late at night. The diner in the painting is based on a real location in Greenwich Village, but was chosen in part because diners were anonymous slices of Americana, meaning that the scene could have been taken from any city in the country-and also because a diner was a place to which isolated individuals, awake long after bedtime, would naturally be drawn. The spread of the diner meant that by 1942 it was possible for Hopper to cast this institution in a role for which, fifteen years earlier, he had used an Automat all-night restaurant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In television and cinema, diners and soda fountains have come to symbolize the period of prosperity and optimism in America in the 1950s. They are shown as the place where teenagers meet after school and as an essential part of a date. The television show <i>Alice</i> used a diner as the setting for the program, and one is often a regular feature in sitcoms such as Seinfeld. The diner's cultural influence continues today. Many non-prefab restaurants (including franchises like Denny's) have copied the look of 1950s diners for nostalgic appeal, while Waffle House uses an interior layout derived from the diner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Manhattan was once known for its diners. The Moondance Diner was shipped to Wyoming to make room for development. Diners provide, in rather the same way that fast food chains do, a nationwide, recognizable, fairly uniform place to eat and assemble. The types of food served are likely to be consistent, especially within a region (exceptions being districts with large immigrant populations, in which diners and coffee shops will often cater their menus to those local cuisines), as are the prices charged. </span></div>
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I had never heard much about role-playing games (I had heard of Dungeons and Dragons, of course) and I had no idea about game boards and geomorphs.</div>
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I have been putting a book together about architectural plans and I saw a Pinterest post about a tower. It was hand drawn, carefully done, and quasi-historically accurate.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Dyson’s Dodecahedron started out (under the title of “A Character For Every Game) when I decided it was worth the time and effort to make two characters (one starting character, one “advanced” character) for every RPG I own. However, when you have a collection of 200+ RPGs, sooner or later you discover that a project of that magnitude is quite the undertaking. </i></span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Slowly the blog transformed into a general RPG blog, where I talked a lot about the games I’ve played and how I like to play them. Then I started posting the occasional bit of house rules to go along with those posts.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Then I posted a One Page Dungeon that I had written up for the One Page Dungeon Contest in 2009. I wasn’t happy with the map I drew for that dungeon, and started looking at the maps drawn by other members of my various RPG groups. I started to develop a new style for my maps. Not an “original” style overall – it is strongly based in the cartography I enjoyed from old Palladium and Chaosisum products, but significantly less like the style of the traditional D&D map which is very grid-oriented.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Then I started to post maps drawn in this style. As I practiced the style, I challenged myself to draw a geomorph every other day until I had at least 100 geomorphs. The blog got pretty boring during this stretch, but I learned a lot about mapping and dungeon design, and the blog got a reputation as a mapping blog. </i></span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That reputation is well-earned now. The main content of the blog these days is my fantasy RPG maps, with a minor focus on “OSR” RPG content. I’ve got a few hundred maps on the blog now for you to explore, along with over a dozen adventures.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Things I plan to post here include some of my tiles and mapping work (so others can find it easily without scraping the mapper itself), changelogs and whatnot about the mapper, information on other role-playing related projects (e.g. DungeonMorph dice), and anything else I can think of that might be of interest to the role-playing community. If these things appeal to you, by all means bookmark this blog, add it to StumbleUpon, subscribe by RSS, print out pages and tape them to your bedroom walls, or whatever you want to do. I’m just happy to have you as a visitor."</i></span></div>
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The Ndebeles are an African ethnic group living in South Africa and Zimbabwe known for their artistic talent, especially with regard to their painted houses and colorful beadwork. Not much is known about these people except that they originated from the larger Nguni tribes who make up almost two thirds of the black population in South Africa. Ndebeles are thought to have travelled from Natal to the Transvaal region and settled near Pretoria in the 16th century. Rivalry between families caused one group of Ndebele to go farther north into Zimbabwe. Of the groups that stayed in South Africa, the Manala and the Ndzundza, it is the latter who developed abstract house-painting schemes and who are recognized globally as the Ndebele of South Africa.
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The Ndebele people were formidable warriors who often subdued the smaller chiefdom's and assimilated them into Ndebele society. Intermarriages ensued and cultural exchanged happened. It is believed that early Ndebele house structure and house-painting strategies were adopted as a result of these relationships. According to a few sources, the Ndebeles suffered a horrible defeat in a war against the Dutch-speaking settlers – the Boers, just before the start of the twentieth century. Forced into an oppressive life, the Ndebele people started using expressive symbols to secretly communicate with each other. These paintings became an expression of both cultural resistance and continuity. The Boer farmers did not understand the meaning and viewed this cultural art as decorative and harmless and thus allowed it to continue.</div>
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The wall paintings are always done by the women, and this tradition and style is passed down in the families from generation to generation by the mothers. A well-painted home indicates the female of the household is a good wife and mother. She is responsible for the painting of the outside gates, front walls, side walls, and usually the interior of her home.<br />
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The initial wall art designs and symbolic forms were derived from centuries-old Ndebele beadwork forms and patterns. Earliest wall art shows tonal patterns painted by the women with their fingers on mud walls of their cylindrical houses. Prior to the French introduction of acrylic pigments into South Africa in the 1940s, only natural pigments were used. Monochrome ochres, browns, black, and limestone whitewash were the initial hues. The walls had to be resurfaced seasonally, after the summer rains washed away the natural pigments.<br />
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The Ndebele wall designs have evolved over the years showing increasing external influence. In one example, a huge <span style="color: black;">BMW logo was found</span> painted on a house. However, in the remote Nebo area of the Northern Province one can still see the traditional black soot lines, limestone whitewash, and red and dark red brown, now complemented by sky blue, deep blue, yellow-gold, green, and occasionally pink.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">some people would say St. Augustine, Florida (founded 1565)</span></i></div>
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<i>St. Augusitine IS the oldest EUROPEAN continually inhabited settlement.</i></div>
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<i>BUT THIS IS THE OLDEST ... by 500 years !!</i></div>
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<i>to be fair, it is one of two or three settlements -</i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;">see... we think in Eurocentric terms</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;">but both of these settlements have been <u>continually</u></span></i></div>
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Perched on a narrow finger of First Mesa in the heart of the Hopi Nation in northwest Arizona, Walpi is the mother village of 11 surrounding Hopi settlements. Originally established in the thirteenth century at the base of the mesa, Walpi was moved to its current location as a defensive measure after the Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish in 1680. The village was built using hand-trimmed sandstone and earth. The roofs consist of lestavi (structural beams) and wu’na o’ye (smaller poles resting on the lestavi) capped with layers of brush and clay. The village has retained its historical integrity by avoiding the introduction of running water and electricity, and the walls of its buildings are still hand-plastered by local women. Walpi leads the surrounding First Mesa villages in religious rituals and is also the residence for the Kikmongwi, the village leader. It is a significant Native American site that represents traditional Hopi architecture and identity.<br />
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During the 1880s and 1890s, Walpi’s inhabitants began migrating to more contemporary houses in the nearby village of Polacca and its permanent population slowly dwindled in the twentieth century. Many Polacca families retain ownership of their houses in Walpi, but they are now used predominantly for public ceremonies. Tourism began to develop at the site in 1985 and became an important income stream for the community. Over the years weathering, insufficient maintenance, and the use of modern construction materials like concrete block and plywood have compromised the integrity of the site. Some buildings in the village border steep cliffs and finding a way to preserve and reinforce them is necessary for the safety of the village. The Hopi community would like to restore the site using traditional materials and methods.<br />
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Traditional roof installation protects the historic fabric of the village<br />
Following Walpi’s inclusion on the 2012 World Monuments Watch, WMF partnered with the village community to organize two heritage workdays that drew attention to the basic maintenance practices required to keep the site in good condition. Volunteers cleared trash from the base of the cliffs on which the village is perched. Similar activities were held during Watch Day in October 2012.<br />
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Early in 2013, WMF collaborated with the Walpi Village Administrator to develop a pilot project to reinstate traditional roofs on two houses that, save for their roofs, retained all of their original construction materials. Almost all the original roofs at Walpi were removed in a HUD-funded improvement project in the 1970s, and they were replaced with contemporary plywood-and-tarpaper roofs that have now reached the end of their functional lives. The project is in the development phase.<br />
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Walpi Village is a vital community embodying the traditional Hopi way of life. Its protection and conservation are essential for community members as well as in providing visitors with an important living illustration of the tribe’s rituals, architecture, and history.<br />
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Harris spent 18 years with the Yellow Pocahontas, always “running flag.” However because veteran Ray “Hatchet” Blazio, who Harris greatly admired, held the first flag position in the gang, he realized he could never be the number one flagboy. After a time, he began describing his own position as “flag of the nation.”</div>
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When he did this, he says, it marked the beginning of his stylistically African approach to design that continued when he started his own gang, commonly called simply Fi-Yi-Yi. “I was on that path,” the chief explains. “I was heading that way. I already changed some of my ways of masking {as a flagboy} by having a shield instead of a flag.”</div>
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A certain heartbreak still remains in Harris’ voice when he speaks of being “banished” from the Yellow Pocahontas in 1984. He won’t speak of the reason as he remains loyal to the gang – “I just love these people” – though one could speculate that his pain led him to perhaps greater things.<br />
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“Everything seemed hopeless to me — I had no tribe,” Harris remembers.” I was banned from the Yellow Pocahontas which was my community, my livelihood and everything else. And I loved masking Mardi Gras Indian. The only thing that I could do was to pray.”<br />
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“It was at night, I was all alone. I turned off every light in the house, the clock that was ticking, I stopped that from happening. I made sure the TV and the refrigerator were unplugged because I didn’t want to hear a humming sound. I just wanted to be alone with the spirit in the dark.</div>
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I woke up that next morning and I felt very good and I just started stretching and flexing my arms and started to say ‘Yi-Yi.’ Suddenly I stopped and then I said ‘Fi-Yi-Yi’ and the third time I screamed it ‘Fi-Yi-Yi.’ That was the first time the word was ever mentioned.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>March 30,2015</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Big Chief Harris has masked for 52 years - each year making a new suit from scratch. He wears a full face mask covered with shells, strings of beads and "stones".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>here are some close-ups of his style of beadwork</b></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><i>'PRETTY, PRETTY' </i></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">BIG CHIEF !!</span></b></h2>
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kasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768500309820323415.post-4825441904599441292017-01-02T18:27:00.000-08:002017-01-02T18:50:39.604-08:00The wisdom of Earl Moursund, Professor Emeritus<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Looking at Spatial Composition</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have been working on a book of concepts based upon the work of a professor from the University of Oregon. When I was there for graduate studies, Earl Moursund taught ARCH 415G "Fundamentals of Spatial Composition". It was a mind bending course taught by a rare true master. Thirty five years later, I surprised Earl by sending him copies of the book I put together. In big bold letters was his name - I was told it was very emotional for him (you earned it Professor Moursund!!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We were asked to look at Tigbourne Court in Wormley, Surry in England. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The architect was Sir Edwin Lutyens (who later laid out the plan for the capital of New Delhi, India). </span></div>
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Some of the work of the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans rises to art. </div>
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The first <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">trulli</span></i> showed up in the prehistoric age; they had already been present in settlement in the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Itria Valley</span>. <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tholos</span></i>, typical constructions used to bury the deceased, also began to spread over the same territory.<br />
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Still, the oldest <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">trulli</i> we know of today are at <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alberobello</span>, dating back to the 14th Century: it was during this period that what seemed but an uninhabited land was assigned to the ownership of the first <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Count of Conversano </span>by<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Robert d’Anjou, Prince of Taranto and then King of Naples from 1309 to 1343. The tract of land was given as a reward to the young Anjou noble for his service during the Crusades. Soon after, the area was repopulated with entire feudal settlements, transferred from nearby (like that of <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Noci</span>).<br />
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According to some research, however, rural settlements had already risen up around the year 1000, on both sides of a river that now runs underground. The habitations gradually grew into villages, later called <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aja Piccola</span> and <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monti</span>.<br />
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The trullo’s dry-wall construction, without mortar, was imposed on new settlers so that they could dismantle their shelters in a hurry: an efficient means to evade taxes on new settlements under the Kingdom of Naples, and certainly a good way to deter unruly lords. Yet most historians agree that this building technique came about due to the area’s geographical conditions, abundant with the limestone we now see in these constructions.<br />
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For almost three years I worked for the Redevelopment Agency of the County of Santa Cruz part-time... For the majority of that time, I worked as the primary designer on a small park that was between a creek and retail stores in a small town.<br />
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There were plenty of constraints - the project is located in a flood plain, the creek is a protected biotic restraint, there is a confusing and inadequate circulation for automobiles, a dangerous and unclear pedestrian circulation, the town post office is within the area, as well as two restaurants, a bar, a sporting goods store and an antiques shop at the corner.<br />
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The redevelopment agency had bought a run down mobile home park with lots of pavement and the town plan called for a park area and parking to replace it.<br />
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I remember numbering the alternative plans I drew up - I think it was 27!<br />
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11. They were hunted to almost extinction to about 100 animals </div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hundreds of thousands of northern elephant seals once inhabited the Pacific Ocean. They were slaughtered wholesale in the 1800s for the oil that could be rendered from their blubber. By 1892, only 50 to 100 individuals were left. The only remaining colony was on the Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In 1922, the Mexican government gave protected status to elephant seals, and the U. S. government followed suit a few years later when the seals began to appear in Southern California waters. Since that time, elephant seals have continued to multiply exponentially, and they have extended their breeding range as far north as Point Reyes. Today, there are approximately 160,000 northern elephant seals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The first elephant seals on Año Nuevo Island were sighted in 1955, and the first pup was born there in 1961. In 1978, 872 were born there. Males began to haul out on the mainland in 1965. A pup born in January 1975 was the first known mainland birth of a northern elephant seal at Año Nuevo; 86 pups were born there in 1978. By 1988/1989, about 2,000 elephant seals came ashore at Año Nuevo, and the number of seals breeding and giving birth on the mainland is still increasing. During the 1994-95 breeding season, approximately 2,000 pups were born on the mainland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The elephant seal breeding season begins at Año Nuevo in December, when the first males arrive. From fourteen to sixteen feet long and weighing up to 2 1/2 tons, these huge bulls engage in violent battles to establish dominance. The successful bulls do much of the breeding, with most of the duty falling on the "alpha" bull at the top of the social ladder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In late December, the females begin to arrive and form "harems" on the beaches of the Reserve. Much smaller than the males, they average ten to twelve feet in length and weigh 1,200 to 2,000 pounds. Three to six days after she arrives, the female gives birth to the pup that was conceived the previous year. Normally only one pup is born to each female, and she nurses for 25 to 28 days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ordinarily, a mother nurses her own pup, although if they are separated another female may adopt the youngster. Feeding on its mother's rich milk (55% fat), the pup grows from approximately 75 pounds at birth to 250-350 pounds in less than a month. Some resourceful pups nurse from two or three females. They can weigh 600 pounds and are aptly called "super weaners".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Females come into season and mate about 24 days after giving birth. However, the fertilized egg does not implant in the wall of her uterus for about four months a rare phenomenon called "delayed implantation". The theory is that the female is so weak after nursing and fasting that she doesn't have enough energy to nourish the egg. Since the seals' gestation period is seven months, this delay means that the young will be born after the female reaches her breeding ground the following year. The pups could not survive if born at sea. Adult females may mate several times before returning to the ocean, abruptly weaning their pups by desertion. By mid-March, most of the adult seals are gone, leaving the pups behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When the weaned pups are four to six weeks old, their original coat of black fur molts and is replaced by a shiny new silver coat. Soon afterward, they begin learning to swim in the shallow offshore waters or ponds formed by rainwater. They are very curious and rather awkward and somewhat afraid of the water at first. But they learn quickly, spend more and more time swimming about, and then, during the last three weeks of April, they go to sea one by one and disperse northwestward. They feed off the coast of northern Washington and Vancouver Island in British Columbia and do not appear on land again until September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At sea, elephant seals typically dive 20 minutes to a depth of 1,000 to 2,000 feet in search of food: rays, skates, rat fish, squid, and small sharks. The maximum recorded depth is 5,015 feet by a male in 1991. The females eat nothing while they are giving birth, nursing, and mating, and the males go without food for up to three months at that time. They are preyed upon by killer whales and sharks.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The women of Gee’s Bend—a small, remote, black community in Alabama—have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Resembling an inland island, Gee’s Bend is surrounded on three sides by the Alabama River. The seven hundred or so inhabitants of this small, rural community are mostly descendants of slaves, and for generations they worked the fields belonging to the local Pettway plantation. Quiltmakers there have produced countless patchwork masterpieces beginning as far back as the mid-nineteenth century, with the oldest existing examples dating from the 1920s. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Enlivened by a visual imagination that extends the expressive boundaries of the quilt genre, these astounding creations constitute a crucial chapter in the history of African American art.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gee’s Bend quilts carry forward an old and proud tradition of textiles made for home and family. They represent only a part of the rich body of African American quilts. But they are in a league by themselves. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Few other places can boast the extent of Gee’sBend’s artistic achievement, the result of both geographical isolation and an unusual degree of cultural continuity. In few places elsewhere have works been found by three and sometimes four generations of women in the same family, or works that bear witness to visual conversations among community quilting groups and lineages. </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">THESE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE QUILTS FROM GEE'S BEND ...</span></h2>
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After her mother’s death, Nettie Young’s father married her friend, quiltmaker Deborah Young. At age eighty-five, Nettie Young continues to tend to the farmlands surrounding her home, one of the original “project houses” built in the late 1930s.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">I was raised up in a place they called Young’s, the old Young plantation. My daddy’s father had been a slave named Irby but was sold to the Pettways, so my daddy was named Pettway, same as all the others owned by the Pettways. Daddy had lived down in the Bend. When he got grown he was free from the Pettway ownership and could go where he wanted to go, and he went up to the Young plantation to work. He farmed up there—you called it sharecropping, what he did. Later on, he got where he could rent the land, but that wasn’t much better.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i> <i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">I grew up in the renting time. Then when I got married we did some rent farming from the Wilkinsons. They had bought all the land around up there. Then we moved down to this house in 1945. Old Man Wilkinson had bought this house in a auction and wanted my husband, Clint Young, to live in it. We was living up in Wilkinson’s pasture in a common wooden shack, and this house was a whole improvement. So, Old Man Wilkinson sold it to us for $4,000, higher than the cost was supposed to be, thinking we’d fall behind and he could take it back. But we was able to keep up the payments, and later on, the government, the FHA, give us the loan, so we was able to get the house and keep the house ever since.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i> <i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">I started working quilts when I was a child. My mother would have me sit with her, and I was watching her and putting scraps together, doing like she was doing. She’d drop those scraps at her feet, and I’d be picking them up. My mama looked at that thing and told me I did good. I felt good, like I had done a big job. I always loved sewing. I made all my children’s clothes. Didn’t need a pattern. Same with quilts. If I seen a dress or a quilt or something I liked, I can make it. I just draw it out the way I want it. In the quilting bee time, I started using patterns, but I shouldn’t have did it. It broke the ideas I had in my head. I should have stayed with my own ideas. </span></i><br />
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<i>In 2002, as a freelancer, I was assigned by the New York Times to photograph the women of Gee's Bend Alabama for a story on their amazing quilts. Their quilt work had just broken the boundaries of craft, and soared into the realm of fine art with rave reviews. Of their Whitney Museum of American Art quilt exhibition, the New York Times wrote that the quilts, originally made for warmth, turn out to be some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced. The art critic went on to say that this maybe the last moment to record and celebrate what is one of the countries most idiosyncratic and vivid living art traditions. I agree, but I also see a much bigger, more culturally significant story. It's a compelling mix of the tragic, triumphant, and genius. These qualities have been acknowledged in their artwork, but I see it manifest in other significant and ways. </i></div>
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<i>So, in 2003, I went back on my own, stayed with the quilters and began to piece it together. Most of the people have lived there all their lives. They are proud landowners, born to the sharecroppers, born to the slaves, who originally inhabited the plantations of Gee's Bend. Generation after generation has stayed, and until now, few outsiders have moved in. This has helped to create a surprisingly complex and unique way of life. They have weathered slavery and can tell the story of the middle passage from first hand accounts of blood relatives. They survived the injustices of the sharecropping system, the perils of the depression, and the powerful racism that stranded them on the bend of the Alabama River.</i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;">Let’s first get something straight: the famous flounder house style in St. Louis did not originate out of an attempt to trick the tax man into thinking a house was incomplete, therefore lowering a homeowner’s bill. </span></i></h3>
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But what the distinctive, fish-shaped housing style does represent is a unique moment in the 19th century in St. Louis when vernacular architecture thrived in the city.<br />
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Originating in the period during and in the decades after the Civil War, the flounder style house took its name from the profile of the building when observed from the street or alley. In some people’s eyes, the tall, right triangle roof line took on the shape of a flounder, a species of fish with a similar profile. In more technical terms, flounder houses possess shed roofs, in which a roof angles down from a taller exterior wall to a parallel, shorter wall. Unlike more complicated roof types, like a gabled or hipped roof, the shed roof common to a flounder simply required carpenters to lay roof rafters from one wall to the other, eliminating the need for a more complicated ridge or hip structure. Likewise, the shed roof allowed for a house to be built right on the property line without worrying about issues of drainage affecting a neighbor.</div>
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Consequently, the Cultural Resources Office, a department of the St. Louis Planning and Urban Development Agency, has begun the process of documenting all of the flounder houses in the city. Leading the effort is Jan Cameron, Preservation Administrator; so far she and her staff have identified at least 260 flounder houses and variants throughout the city. Logically, most are located within the heart of 19th-century St. Louis, east of Grand, but the style has also been found in what would have been the rural outskirts of the city back then.<br />
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Besides the traditional flounder house, Cultural Resources has identified variations on the original simple shed roof. Some flounders have a gabled roof, but then mysteriously, only one side of the gable is complete and the other side is only constructed half way to its logical completion. Originally, on many examples of this style, there was an open gallery (now filled in on many houses) that completed the gable roof. Likewise, and arguing against simplicity being the sole reason for flounders, some houses of this style have a gambrel or hipped roof.<br />
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Why does this matter? For a city such as St. Louis that constantly emphasizes its prosperity and influence during the 19th century, surprisingly little of the built environment from the 1800s as a percentage of the total building stock of the city survives. Swept away primarily by urban renewal or replacement by early Twentieth Century construction, the buildings remaining from the decades around the Civil War are treasured reminders of what St. Louis used to be.<br />
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Unfortunately, because of their age, abandoned flounders often suffer from severe neglect and deterioration, placing their fate in jeopardy. Just recently, a flounder in the Gravois Park neighborhood was lost due to its ostensibly advanced disrepair. Likewise, muddling with inappropriate siding, such as a well-preserved but abandoned flounder on Utah in the Benton Park West neighborhood, makes preservation more difficult. After all, who would want to save such an “ugly” building? But fire insurance maps reveal that under the white asphalt siding is a brick flounder, certainly worth saving.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Situated in a mountain valley at an altitude of 2,200 m, the Old City of Sana'a is defined by an extraordinary density of rammed earth and burnt brick towers rising several stories above stone-built ground floors, strikingly decorated with geometric patterns of fired bricks and white gypsum. The ochre of the buildings blends into the bistre-colored earth of the nearby mountains. Within the city, minarets pierce the skyline and spacious green <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">bustans</em> (gardens) are scattered between the densely packed houses, mosques, bath buildings and caravanserais.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inhabited for more than 2,500 years, the city was given official status in the second century BC when it was an outpost of the Yemenite kingdoms. By the first century AD it emerged as a centre of the inland trade route. The site of the cathedral and the martyrium constructed during the period of Abyssinian domination (525-75) bear witness to Christian influence whose apogee coincided with the reign of Justinian. The remains of the pre-Islamic period were largely destroyed as a result of profound changes in the city from the 7th century onwards when Sana'a became a major centre for the spread of the Islamic faith as demonstrated by the archaeological remains within the Great Mosque, said to have been constructed while the Prophet was still living. Successive reconstructions of Sana'a under Ottoman domination beginning in the 16th century respected the organization of space characteristic of the early centuries of Islam while changing the appearance of the city and expanding it with a second city to the west. The houses in the old city are of relatively recent construction and have a traditional structure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As an outstanding example of a homogeneous architectural ensemble reflecting the spatial characteristics of the early years of Islam, the city in its landscape has an extraordinary artistic and pictorial quality. Its many-storied buildings represent an outstanding response to defensive needs in providing spacious living quarters for the maximum number of residents within defensible city walls. The buildings demonstrate exceptional craftsmanship in the use of local materials and techniques. The houses and public buildings of Sana'a, which have become vulnerable as a result of contemporary social changes, are an outstanding example of a traditional, Islamic human settlement.</span></div>
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The "<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Eixample</b></span>" is a district of the Spanish city of Barcelona, that lies between the old city and the surrounding small towns. The district was built as an extension (hence the name “Eixample”) when Barcelona started to grow during the middle of the 19th century. The 7.5 square km district is characterized by long straight streets, a strict grid pattern crossed by wide avenues, and octagonal city blocks - rectangular blocks with the corners cut off, which are distinctive for Barcelona.<br />
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This was the visionary, pioneering design by Spanish urban planner <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Ildefons Cerdà</b></span>, who considered traffic and transport along with sunlight and ventilation in coming up with his characteristic octagonal blocks.<br />
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Cerdà’s central aim was to overcome social problems by using quadrangular blocks of a standard size, with strict building controls to ensure that they were built up on only two sides, to a limited height, leaving a shady square or garden in between. This recreational open space with open sides to the blocks was to guarantee the houses the maximum amount of sun, light and ventilation. The angled corners allowed the streets to broaden at every intersection making for greater visibility, and fluid traffic in all directions. Cerdà had steam trams in mind, and it was its long turning radius which determined the angle of the corners of the buildings. Trams were never installed, and the city planners unfortunately ignored many of his other provisions.<br />
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Cerda wanted housing blocks to be orientated NW-SE to ensure all apartments received sunshine during the day. Each district would be of twenty blocks, containing all the community shops and services, and each block were to have at least 800 square meters of gardens. Cerda’s idealized use of urban space was scarcely achieved. The blocks went up to much more than the planned heights, and in practice all the blocks have been enclosed, with very few inner gardens surviving. Most of the inner courtyards today are occupied by car parks, workshops and shopping centers. The streets were narrower - only one of the two diagonal avenues was carried out - the inhabitants were of a higher class than the mixed composition dreamed of by Cerdà. The grid pattern with its distinctive octagonal blocks, however, remains as a hallmark of Barcelona’s Eixample.<br />
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<i>Over the past few years the city has begun trying to implement Cerdà's idea for green public spaces behind the buildings. When a block is vacated because of the relocation of a business, the city takes up the block and redesigns it with parks and open spaces. The ultimate goal is to create one patio-garden for every nine blocks, but its unlikely that so many will become available in the near future.
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kasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768500309820323415.post-32888513341448373292009-10-17T11:38:00.000-07:002009-10-26T16:53:39.377-07:00the Influence of Art on Architecture....<div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">... and a celebration of</span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>PABLO PICASSO</em></strong></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibYm5MPwDnJXuyVvE0lmTk0MTl2HO0auoT-cGBbA2waB-od7sO524o5XmlEAuTHs_iWVK9ptf-CXtZrmLOSZLW8b3i6i2cofMSOZXD1AHShomF2iJCPExOijAKKgCjfQDpOU2VjREb9xc/s1600-h/Picasso+3.jpg"></div><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393640201023831650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 288px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibYm5MPwDnJXuyVvE0lmTk0MTl2HO0auoT-cGBbA2waB-od7sO524o5XmlEAuTHs_iWVK9ptf-CXtZrmLOSZLW8b3i6i2cofMSOZXD1AHShomF2iJCPExOijAKKgCjfQDpOU2VjREb9xc/s400/Picasso+3.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></p><br /><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">GREAT QUOTES FROM </span></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">PABLO PICASSO</span></strong> </p><p align="center"><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">You know, music, art - these are not just little decorations to make life prettier. They're very deep necessities which people cannot live without.</span></em></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">.</span></strong> </p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.</em></strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.</em></strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span> </span></strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>Every child is an artist; the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.</em></strong></span> </p><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /></span><em>Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. </em></strong></span></div><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em><div align="center"><br /></em></strong><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;">. </span></strong></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"><div align="center"><br /></span><em>The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm. </em></div><div align="center"><em><br /></em></strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">.</span> </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><div align="center"><br /></strong></span><em><strong>The important thing is to create. </strong></em></div><em><strong><div align="center"><br /></strong></em><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span> </span></strong></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><div align="center"><br /></span><em>The chief enemy of creativity is 'good taste.'</em></strong></span> </div><div align="center"><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">.</span></strong></div><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></div><div align="center"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393642217060608130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 383px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdoconRKr-5jCzC9ZATZY5WVgarZhh1pdwxVM_G2vZjjY8MI2rQoXlQQErSYAvdKaeA5D9NZhf8L5XeGcG3XC-sfKdvEjhYapQrSQcaJFILt6Pz6D0NRSOVC6zyEy3XDsd0Y9GXbuHGsE/s400/picasso-avignon.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393642224148126626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 294px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEQYYDCjcnSNCTTCXQZdqSQE01JLt8fNpSfDq9SrKHNjz8a0uPs3CZ7-oFo5hn4aKPS2T_qH-8v3gaBKVjXJN8nk7ZgePgLZfchzmmOzcEwwZTR98COTSJP6Q19hXbQrb5tEKtWgXtE-8/s400/picasso_woman_b.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393642242697630450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 322px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbRxz_aySO4XkS9ULtTge0lhf1f1U44eaHVllJ99pz-282-pJV0O413gMCFkQ37TF7ujXF3UiCKMS_CElOtFnYE3wJXhFM6heZckno_EBXJeDl3nB_9MGIzW_6UANjMYW7zVbmrGyKt3s/s400/picasso.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393642230924666482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 376px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ADzRgf-5ijsilbijSr8ynaWuddQyD6DuUjT0RSnhGAKVvNEe5ELwSvZnysoVNrAYl95kDl3o4bsco7j4TToFMttYbevx_gyVX35MkpYkgpGa8NTvfprhBnEx9YAWO0sjfeI2eeu3nVw/s400/picasso_3musicians1921.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><p><em><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Picasso changed the way we look at the world. He changed art from a subject of representation to a subject of time and composition.<br /><br />He influenced artists of all persuasions by releasing them from having narrow parameters for what they could do.</span></strong><br /></em></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">_____<br /></span></p><br /><br /><p align="center">One of the architects most associated with artists is<br /><a href="http://www.hughpearman.com/2008/10.html"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000099;">Frank Gehry</span></a></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393646038141811090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 249px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQKTmulEdX3NYzr9xCSsH4-I5wwr685ynPVRolISxfFlGVe-gC6S0k13wTBJNkYMRRDOy4UoEjlAMK9sS2daw76APqOceS3-NyblI_-2LHNJ2YBMOLUMLPH4MfOXthzOq27UPpu3_G8HU/s400/frank.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p><br /> </p><p align="left"></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">GREAT QUOTES FROM </span></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">FRANK GEHRY</span></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></p><p align="left"></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em><strong>I search out the work of artists, and use art as a means of inspiration.</strong></em></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em><strong>I want to be open-ended.</strong></em></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em><strong>There are no rules, no right or wrong.</strong></em></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>I'm confused as to what's ugly and what's pretty.</em></span> </strong></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393644847157796994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 302px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRvWpVld0IAs0Xtp5eMuviliF653LW1ueIECJ9qDKv6O67vxl1pIUxJdEKhalpbWgQqbdP5qzNPzLrzCnBY0dgfjSpHsVekpUH5Y1y9gQkEa7X-T7kuRyBDBZzvB3Zm2W-PbUQr_8jpdQ/s400/Gehry+sketch+1.jpg" border="0" /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393647271365033890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-pNYrAk0weiVLGcr5mgTXffl1X7l7B44im3JxHFKbrzV9nvM4oy62PDsjEIk8FaSKHgudMdq17eygrT_S_MjOlvYX827ClVHmYnVg4E7R2jOcztcSqU-tXHXRTfj2eG6LXfjdygTsS8/s400/WaltDisneyConcertHall%2520Wikipedia.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393644854698139634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 301px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSKcWlOwZt_G0is0eUZ1uQgrHTwnnbqaKy9I-rWeSFqLX_RUyBXeVkWsjN_4wIOz14e4UVWpSEqklvdPB1PW8k2LeC4esXIfp025UUcYX7ZFB6NkK_tqUBuZnirpRqSVK4nqZGo_dYek/s400/Gehry+sketch+2.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393647260938744882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 377px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_e85CQNhVkIrfu8CHF5yJvJq5aw5pXxu2t6s4rbp9BH9OvP0oBGcn-NgzhYC9rXNmzX0P9MXAB01nidj9JOQxe7g7szqnrGJtb-FO0EVLEpk0my1N7jgshficHWauY700F8PS_oo94wA/s400/iac-frank-gehry.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><strong>Architect Frank Gehry always has credited artists with inspiring his iconoclastic buildings, famous for their exuberant use of mundane materials, odd angles, wild curves and beautiful light.</strong></em></span> </p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>. . .</strong></span></p>kasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768500309820323415.post-7362593680931137422009-10-16T08:36:00.000-07:002009-10-16T16:20:11.216-07:00A Style of Architecture called "Monterey" -Monterey, California is about 45 minutes from here. I have often seen a style of architectural design referred to as "Monterey".<br /><br />There are not that many adobes around Monterey. What is the style about?<br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOM-hEP5K8yXUW3f2R8UTbwBkEKLkD9wRHGcslvdGorYpHO9rcqE_RFjlGUu7x7Hbeil3HIh8iiECGr3WyVVCapSkioIzQ3_FgmAsDjbMtpOoFv7bXoDLaESqIaTPix2iXyV9bweWkA0I/s1600-h/C__Documents+and+Settings_pln795_Local+Settings_Temporary+Internet+Files_Content.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393222464182871026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 313px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOM-hEP5K8yXUW3f2R8UTbwBkEKLkD9wRHGcslvdGorYpHO9rcqE_RFjlGUu7x7Hbeil3HIh8iiECGr3WyVVCapSkioIzQ3_FgmAsDjbMtpOoFv7bXoDLaESqIaTPix2iXyV9bweWkA0I/s400/C__Documents+and+Settings_pln795_Local+Settings_Temporary+Internet+Files_Content.bmp" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>the Monterey adobe style</strong></span><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><p align="justify">An architectural style that came into existence in Monterey, California, between about 1835 and 1840; typically, a two-story house with a full-façade balcony supported by plain wood posts and enclosed by wood railings. A modified version of this style was revived from about 1920 to 1960, combining Spanish Colonial architecture with some elements of early New England colonial architecture; in this 20th-century version, the balcony is typically cantilevered rather than supported by wood columns from ground level, as in the earlier Monterey style.<br /><br />Nineteenth-century houses in this style usually were characterized by: thick whitewashed adobe walls; a low-pitched gable roof or hipped roof with its ridge parallel to the façade, usually covered with hand-split wood shingles, but sometimes with tiles; occasionally a decorative chimney cap or chimney hood; double-hung wood-frame windows with mullions; often, window shutters; occasionally, full-length windows opening onto the balcony; a relatively simple paneled entry door. Doors in 20th-century houses in this style are often imitative of those found in Colonial Revival architecture, including paneling, a fanlight over the door and sidelights flanking the door; occasionally, some elements of Greek Revival are included in the wood trim around doors and windows. </p><p align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">___</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><em>representative buildings ...</em></strong></span></p><p align="center"><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"></span></em></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">CASA AMESTI -</span></em></strong></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393224629885857778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 307px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQCIXUu2kFXXYtzx-plAz_8ZVLGM9XBJBJV6PGRUvC3sMbHRXOAllB7X1rODZTTHTpcPGsB52WogBEj37Cijfzk2an3uyXxZO3RgYDB8HQ_gu-ygA9YeVC0gKpC9Xp6s5mGeLQ_e_62Fg/s400/00005a.gif" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393225122789952466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 308px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw9DzoJauYZuNu_f37eqzeO-tlTG5YYd-enEw4w1jfnHjVk9hohOC7Rn0iROV3YZdZMoaTwKh5sQjt43BH6SuzorZi4yc7HWRY1E3kCGRZfrqLtDNUnT36jwkzdN6oy5zbjcvE2iFcJH4/s400/00002a.gif" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393225248521501714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 286px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIIBcUNHLYm0QF7tZdP93AaMYYfAoIF0Z_7SeKKnZTif9RrfJ4AL8f5pR44muxLiebM21m_ebvC7RskFlTKbSKYtAO3-TlV7c0OzrAoJ3bncMjRVWWl8XF_rffYZQIzJllutl_EZXCio/s400/013716pr.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em><span style="color:#000099;">LARKIN HOUSE</span></em></strong> - </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393225670960977634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 296px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfDy544z-YZ_3k5zaFQc0A-phCIjrXjguCpPOJ859XPln2CBmQ42WV_Wo7aXxxO9rtkfp4OuY1l8pQdVPMajN-2nArKyprnPRr0yQvFdCaus2jGzJGM4odTtzWWYx2Ohc3LvdvjSeFnw/s400/00006a.gif" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393225803327141314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 296px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhoWoQ8cucfY_u4m6jmp5niy_xzgHa4k2vJS5vJGJTG6GYKubjgfALpLLqGO0gv24v3dc4HVhnijmW19aLM5406uDczrIBfytyOi43KmSu8TOrzYHIyfWFD_9ZUCVf70I-3s7703qZ5Ck/s400/00008a.gif" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393225928250998770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 283px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6MAYV9-HyofpTAxogbZDJFPY1TWjPJ91rGkmKWOPX4dn4T2MCwCtOYtaj8Uj8Ps_2o4w6XAiSrxV_sEZ-DfQF6SB73IN8U-fdE3Fd5qpKsg2WkZGLLv9PwwY4nD897zUqRFJGbKXQbw/s400/013859pr.jpg" border="0" /> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong><em>CUSTOM HOUSE -</em></strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393227894429730418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 308px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRptf0Qmo3865VWcPUrDxJ2MyB6fzGEPFkY_WP0gFveIJVURIp8pC8onXQVRXXaJ1Pqnxdr-3vzHOWkTuT-2lRiJbpfrYv3sHcWaJIv63Gc_WyBDPbO_IdCvS9KXgk1ULMkNZNjpx4YLs/s400/00004a.gif" border="0" /></em></strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393228061301221250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 287px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6T2J0CRM-uxFWPnSg8vPxA9cWuK-eENt59-ajTRQ2VdSopobfsJgruOA1nJNbrCrSVFzRJ0UuNh14hXoZ_tS5JzIWro6YWYXv05nMdRLBa8gmMUiIdPLxkkSJFjONpo66zBYcCT__Ui4/s400/013685pr.jpg" border="0" /></em></strong></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><p align="center"><br /></p><div align="center"></span></div><div align="center"><em>drawings and photos are from the</em><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="http://http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/"><em>Historic American Building Survey </em><br /></div></a><div align="center"><em>(HABS)</em><br /></div><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>. . .</strong></span></p>kasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768500309820323415.post-20526800553579894582009-10-13T12:36:00.001-07:002009-10-13T12:47:05.723-07:00Industrial Age Landscape, part 2 ...these are the remnants of a wood milling operation near Felton, California -<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia5ACunXuXpchX_tdLCKE1PsCj1dNmvCwTMfDc5G4sCAMAD8bXx8Goauyph-TJByn895Ue9qQZVChiBJOF5X5-v5m8_MDKh6UwRimJSUwE1_q2z1UlZjRAWVNATwVzXh3ubWOzDmsG4ho/s1600-h/100_4178.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392171339731500386" style="FLOAT: left; 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MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE9RwsT_sdBs6aCcoJQ2UrQKCDRwdBG9ohtgSyYLPQ0EWYIO7LW3n2ZdyN_CMe7eziR7MxtCY7rJjoQLCI6sWw3uYZ3b_gY__abn-YpWyFLfUD6ceLDphDO3h2oep3vYLVzJ76a34ZndQ/s320/100_4170.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUZNWKRiC1WmF3-zd2b5MEjDhvlV1gNT9qVVvX9OMj3_XoZICjxfWjbDiUoxadgzG88rivkvMYuiCJTKyNmTBpkC8YWp5R7oQikE5jmyh-cSbm4u6UYwtnSu944Y_vn9uXDkzr0Iz4rJk/s1600-h/100_4168.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392171056379893730" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUZNWKRiC1WmF3-zd2b5MEjDhvlV1gNT9qVVvX9OMj3_XoZICjxfWjbDiUoxadgzG88rivkvMYuiCJTKyNmTBpkC8YWp5R7oQikE5jmyh-cSbm4u6UYwtnSu944Y_vn9uXDkzr0Iz4rJk/s320/100_4168.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6yk6YiboFMyDZyxuRKBePze0iTL4rqZDN_MH_IFf_KuxTm3iSQ41kzq92PZB99ns0lwJlmkpBbCsMY18f2ydhAUemBTPch4b1YizaX4saeMBZxSDrjwP9x-dsmQkjCLADMnhtOanZBnI/s1600-h/100_4174.JPG"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6X142L0Y8AKdkwfKtBQsE9bgc2sYkE4yFeYyDiqM3mqcV5wG2DvTleTXqcAcSTUw0mUXeBulMqk9eRTAlrdVzdSsSt_VGLduQKBmUVlJa6IduvJtyAyzldZneVEMfVCVnUc5oB4jXObo/s1600-h/100_4169.JPG"></a>kasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768500309820323415.post-9790052569476028302009-10-07T08:16:00.001-07:002009-10-07T08:23:00.523-07:00Goodbye to Kate's Favorite Building !!<div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">This is at 6th Street and Mission Street in San Francisco -</span></em></strong></div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389877667973772866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLenkiUKzIPMEBIAPCD_fIbefPXOjbwNn4q4u-QzbHFNWHuyNMoTB4pfPDIyx5YSAGc_hDr6WXBoEo6jyyFGCtF2MoCdKF4wOxCNNd0QdomWILAUb_PepZX435zs52KntZqA7PUnaZhmw/s400/ba-cityscape20_p_0500605343.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389877660608607778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhByEODOHnjRGxEuRY3_Qsf-qsSqT4re8m2zvvsPyKo1OQDoJJ5ymaDIQCyQpocsl7R10poF60XzHockNlBwG9J8VrWWsLW82xooUFZwMxw1E52dxSe88j-kcuKJXc-bvjQpZPZosghyphenhyphenjI/s400/ba-cityscape20_p_0500605339.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389877652277426802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM_65mnD2k1C2sGm9KKUmQPeSfdsKmRe31-tHxSBIcGwf8hK2zWMDxlqPkNQWok3nRSOW9gpFfr_QtIU2_OBG8HXeKpC56Rj2T4XohBiE3990h4xS8vbBsFSRVQP9KWpZ8nGElR4Zsjug/s400/ba-cityscape20_p_0500605336.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p> </p><p>For the last twenty years or so, this building has been vacant. An artist put these objects on the outside and coming through the windows of this building. </p><p>My daughter Kate has remarked on this building every time we go into San Francisco. Leaving Highway 280 and heading up 6th Street, the building is very prominent.</p><p>As John King pointed out in one of his columns, the building has been taken by eminent domain by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and will be torn down.</p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>. . .</strong></span></p>kasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768500309820323415.post-33799549266806060452009-10-06T09:44:00.000-07:002009-10-06T16:52:18.200-07:00Extra Ordinary Houses ...<div align="justify">During my graduate school at the University of Oregon I took a class called Landscape Perception. We were asked to create a "guide". I decided to sketch the most interesting small houses that I passed everyday on my walk from the housing complex to the campus.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389529847443511298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjud5wrtkRi5Su3S5zHXTFVT-Rk98bmYGxTzoDuVzP85rxS7fHHSmcPKY36sRktKiVdYqRdWRq91R4HI5q56Wh94x44s5Sdy2ajO_fytrlFMwIurt3irMma5xvlqYu_-aC-gtocEIT5Oek/s400/1989+Alder.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389529865570801762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnIDivEkBub2LxabrwqQC0CHOd7gIKvUggzAC4aD_TfpelZ1bkE5MbtHZOMubN3DJWspdt7wNiSqCSBX5humZfRFi5yBVMU0S65R8naDpd_ZDR261XHbGRQcFBnGPcBJAM0ZlXdNbmTBU/s400/2257+Harris.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389529855802729106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWuVOMqVikdNyLRzAVWdEcJYdhSe5V_cRs8caKm92IT-1atrbbfOMjc0-f4YuYUwLLnXp6iRoI5fHj9uenda6W16VYycXcY8kAoHWRtEoOpvO1whisq35p2O3k159eWpAhguyC-zlB5O8/s400/2124+Harris.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389529554448816066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFp6WVG8jiHmTvD-vyfHsT7v7DSpUaivBqP5-pegmiF7fzyEC2XPQ3lx7y-5GLRCBgQfuskkTWXTVLtgF5ct5qb1Vn7UEqFIfe4xBp7N0Q-4ap1BkU7gogfKvzPK45eXPW87YobBB6_o/s400/1625+Hilyard.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389529548698802898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_2rF8-o-sAXRL_5fwSrVSfWetOzyfQh5N7Oowo7QPMALnKFdJ_Z4Bd5c2lQzSubc404EJ0TdzOaG__j9tX-EDXPAbCOguOYFC3JEndxqVxDNHECSy3-U1iD3xDHu_WSVktXgoBgua68Y/s400/1283+E.+19th.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389529535176529730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2md2QpF7WePiQeOk_3I6hHkQ5qFi054Hx3PmDNiDcpKPcx77yzgf6jzoRUOvF6rac6LzEtu2_veCZyiVymmlSfAk8iF_A-c1WBwEE2yCKa_zH1ise1TrpENzTzxBRARFwsmLyNNb8tZ4/s400/980+E.+19th.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389529565766707714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjueCGqx1YjkhClBQuP8AdIttyLhd7ljH1cdNosHl4nqcjFAweixjuNO0y0upERbTmZlMTWERzu3U7KbYwUTjN-CGtXRVKXdbojWylNb9oeLAjyPdKGMCxGe9HuXYNVuSWpuDiDM1Dg2-E/s400/1975+Hilyard.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">the strong use of bilateral symmetry </span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">is the obvious design tool in these small house facades</span></em></strong> </div><p></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>. . .</strong></span></p></div>kasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768500309820323415.post-6988956809615109562009-10-05T09:53:00.000-07:002009-10-05T10:04:11.732-07:00Spatial Composition in Garden Design -<div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">I came across this plan of a garden designed in 1910...</span></div><div align="center"><br /><br /></div><div align="center"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389160582586296082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 309px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSujKLkHvVpfvO0SefV1m3TMptaoxUPr-pUW0aHCPqTRxitD8ijoX_JGlhEeG9u9Hv50c5fHPtZqZTGGE6GbE_8-r_isezuEhnjTwQDPKnBNoRt5OczkK9FdWWJ_DKkhyphenhyphen-r09iqS7E2n8/s400/lastscan.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><em><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">the following is a spatial composional analysis that I did...</span></em><br /><br /><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389160702426875922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 309px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59yfqrQpK47JgXYpr3Af7FZnw9HCXLMPecd4mznhG0Tmb2FkdV07jru_sf_AxmgA9Nr0SdOZkyiKVtwUTpXAWOzMb8sLNTEH_HNtRt6PVlf9EAAPBLOjzFqaKf5QWNEmqGOnPou0k5yI/s400/sequence.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><p align="center"><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">Notice the careful sequenceing, proportions, positional set-ups, etc.</span></em></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">(see my previous posts on Spatial Composition)</span></em></strong> </p><p align="center"><a href="http://kasparowitz.blogspot.com/2009/06/spatial-compostionpart-1.html">http://kasparowitz.blogspot.com/2009/06/spatial-compostionpart-1.html</a></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6768500309820323415&postID=3998700303331449005">http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6768500309820323415&postID=3998700303331449005</a></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6768500309820323415&postID=539859829373776122">http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6768500309820323415&postID=539859829373776122</a></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6768500309820323415&postID=3998700303331449005">http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6768500309820323415&postID=3998700303331449005</a><br /></p><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>. . .</strong></span></div>kasparowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573627584927387284noreply@blogger.com0